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21/11/2013

Cu Chi tunnels an underground tourist attraction

CNN has listed a system of tunnels in HCM City’s Cu Chi district as one of the world’s top underground tourist attractions.

The complex of tunnels was formed between 1946 and 1948 48 during the resistance war against French aggression.

During the Vietnam War, the tunnels, built on an area of the so-called “Iron Land” in Southern Vietnam, were used as hospitals, communication and supply routes, and living quarters for Vietnamese soldiers.

The tunnels, dug deep underground, can withstand destructive bombs. Air is taken in through the tunnel vents. The different areas of the system can be isolated when necessary.

The system is comprised of three floors, with the first 3m deep and able to resist artillery, tanks and armoured vehicles. The second floor is 5m deep under the ground and able to resist small bombs. The ground floor is 8-10m deep.

The complex has been preserved as a war memorial and a tourist destination.


Source: VOV

18/11/2013

Vietnam attends regional tourism, cultural cooperation meeting

Vietnam joined Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia at the third ministerial meeting on tourism and cultural cooperation, which was held in the Lao city of Vientiane on November 16.

Delegates at the event shared their view that tourism cooperation among ASEAN countries has been highly effective. Notably, the development of tourism in combination with cultural heritage has offered tourists opportunities to both enjoy landscapes and explore culture.

The attendees agreed that it is important to preserve cultural values to enhance the sustainable development of tourism. They also suggested intensified connectivity among countries to fully utilise cultural heritage to serve tourism.

The Vietnamese delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Vuong Duy Bien, asked the countries to further advertise the region’s tourism at international forums and exchange experiences in tourism management and development in an effective way.

Meanwhile, Lao delegates highlighted the Buddhist culture in the region and suggested the popularisation of Buddhism as one potential area of benefit. Tourism programmers, partnerships between the State and private sectors and the training of human resources for tourism could also be developed, they argued.

On this occasion, the six countries are set to present their cultural identities through arts performances at Laos’ That Luong festival on November 16 night.


Source: VNA

16/11/2013

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14/11/2013

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14/11/2013

Airplane tours sold to over 3,600 visitors

In October 2013, more than 3,600 visitors bought airplane tours with over 30 percent discounts, said Mr. Tran The Dung, Deputy Head of the Ho Chi Minh city group of the domestic tourism promotion programme.

The number of visitors buying demand stimulus tours increased by 21 percent against the previous months, said Mr. Dung. In comparison to the same months last year, the number doubled.

The group expects to sell more tours to foreign tourists from now to the end of the year, especially over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Airlines should apply more suitable price policies to further cooperation with the group to attract tourists.

The domestic tourism programme is implemented by the HCM city Tourism Association, in association with airlines to reduce tours prices to stimulate tourism demand./.


Source: CPV

12/11/2013

Sa Pa to open pedestrian street for tourists

The Sa Pa district town People’s Committee has decided to make Cau May street into a pedestrian zone for tourists.

Vehicles will be banned on the street every Friday and Saturday. On these days, residents will be allowed to sell souvenirs, brocade and food along the street.

The opening of the pedestrian street is expected to create cultural space that helps promote local cultural traits to tourists from other places within the country./.


Source: CPV

12/11/2013

Exhibition on Vietnamese Heritage to tour cities, provinces

An exhibition on Vietnamese Heritage opened at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi with aiming at calling on people to join hands to protect and preserve the country's heritage.

Hanoi is among the five destinations that will display the exhibition in the country. The event also took place in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on November 9 and then will be organized in cities and provinces including Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Ninh, Bac Lieu, Quang Nam, Da Nang, D**g Nai, An Giang, Thua Thien-Hue, Lam D**g and Quang Binh from now until February 28, 2014.

The event presents best winning pictures from the Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2013, in various subjects such as natural and cultural heritage, folk games, traditional music and dance, religion, beautiful moments in daily life, festivals, labor and production.

The pictures were selected from more than 6,000 submissions which were sent to the organizing committee of the contest four months ago.

The Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2013 was organized by Vietnam Heritage Association, HCMC Cultural Heritage Association, with support of Vietnam Heritage Magazine and Canon.
The awards ceremony will take place at the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City on November 21 on occasion of the 9th anniversary of Vietnam Cultural Heritage Days on November 23.

Some photos are on the display:

05/11/2013

Intensifying managing Chinese tourists arrivals in Quang Ninh

The Quang Ninh People’s Committee has worked with the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) to discuss measures to intensify the managing of travel and receiving Chinese tourists in Quang Ninh.

The Quang Ninh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism reported that Chinese tourists were welcomed to Quang Ninh via Mong Cai road border gate and Hon G*i sea border gate. Currently, more than 39 travel agencies are welcoming and providing services for Chinese tourists in the province.

At the meeting, participants proposed building temporary regulations on managing travel activities for Chinese tourists arriving via the Mong Cai border gate. In the short term, the establishment of a travel club to create healthy competitiveness among businesses was put forward.

VNAT’s General Director Nguyen Van Tuan agreed with the proposal of building temporary regulations on managing travel activities for Chinese tourists arriving via the Mong Cai border gate.

He stressed that the welcome and travel activities for Chinese tourists in Quang Ninh remains a shortcoming because the market often has policy adjustments, requiring specific mechanisms to ensure the quality of services for tourists and promote the image and prestige of Quang Ninh’s tourism sector./.

Source: CPV

05/11/2013

Ninh Binh to host int’l conference on spiritual tourism

The first International Conference on Spiritual Tourism for Sustainable Development will be held in the northern province of Ninh Binh on November 21-22, according to Director of the provincial Culture, Sports and Tourism Department Lam Quang Nghia.

Jointly held by Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and the provincial People’s Committee, the event will offer a chance for delegates to discuss matters related to tourism planning, management, conservation, and promotion of spiritual tourism products.

It will also help promote the tourism potentials of Vietnam in general and Ninh Binh province in particular.

Ninh Binh is home to several unique beautiful landscapes which were formed thousands years ago, such as the Van Long eco-tourism site, Cuc Phuong National Park and Tam Coc-Bich D**g.

Particularly, the Trang An complex is one of the province’s most attractive destinations. Dossier on the site is being submitted to the UNESCO for recognition as a world heritage in 2014.

When visiting Ninh Binh, visitors have a chance to tour many places of spiritual significance, including a national recognised historical site, the One Pillar Pagoda, and Yen Thanh communal house in the former imperial capital of Hoa Lu.

Head of the provincial Statistics Office Dinh The Thap said by the end of October, Ninh Binh welcomed around 4.18 million visitors, surpassing the yearly target and posting a year-on-year increase of 20.8 percent.

Source: VNA

04/11/2013

World-record setting cable car in Sapa-Fasipan

A three-wire cable car system, set to be the longest and highest in the world, is planned to be built in Sapa Town, Lao Cai to transport people to the summit Fansipan Mountain.

A subsidiary of Ba Na Cable Car Service JSC plans to invest in a project to build the cable car, as well as an entertainment and hotel complex in Sapa-Fansipan.

The three-wire cable car system would be the first of its kind the Asian region. It is expected to increase in Lao Cai Province in general and Sapa in particular.

The cable car system would be the only in the world which does not need a normal rescue system would be able to safely deliver passengers from the base of the mountain, to the summit and back under any conditions.

When the seven-kilometre system is put into operation, it would help shorten the current two-day long trek, which is arduous and dangerous to 15-minute ride. It is expected to carry a maximum of 2,000 people per hour, with each car holding 35 passengers.

The investor would also build a luxury resort on Fansipan with four to five-star hotels, along with entertainment and food areas, a new downtown and an 18-hole golf course.

It would include a spiritual tourism area on the top of the Fansipan Mountain.

The project is scheduled for completion on National Day September 2, 2015.

The project is targeted to help increase the number of tourists to Lao Cai to two million per year by 2017 and three million per year by 2020.

Ba Na Cable Car Service JSC has successfully built a cable car system in the Ba Na Hills. The number of tourists to the Ba Na Hills has since reached nearly one million per year, attracting 30% more tourist yearly.

04/11/2013

VN, Japan to boost joint tourism

The two governments plan to join hands to reach the target of bringing 1 million Japanese visitors to Viet Nam and 200,000 Vietnamese people to Japan in 2015.

Viet Nam-Japan tourism co-operation would focus on exchanging visitors, providing technical support and developing human resources, said Nguyen Manh Cuong, deputy general director of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism.

In the fifth meeting of the Viet Nam-Japan Tourism Co-operation Committee last Friday, Cuong said Japan had announced that Viet Nam had been put in the country's list of strategic markets that Japanese visitors would travel to.

In Japan, there were many tourism promotion campaigns to lure Japanese people to come to Viet Nam's central region, especially tourism destinations in Khanh Hoa, Quang Nam, Thua Thien-Hue provinces.

The Japanese side also planned to open a direct flight to the region, which would be a driving force for Viet Nam to upgrade infrastructure to serve tourism development, Cuong added.

Chairman of the Viet Nam Tourism Association (VITA) Vu The Binh said that the association had established two travel clubs in the South and the North to welcome Japanese tourists. At the same time, VITA would call for the most prestigious and professional travelling companies to take part in the campaign of bringing Vietnamese visitors to Japan.

Binh said he hoped with the co-operation between VITA and the Japan Association of Tourism, enterprises of the two countries would have more chances to join hands in developing tourism.

According to the General Statistics Office, Viet Nam welcomed over 6.1 million overseas arrivals in the past 10 months of 2013, up 10.4 per cent against the same period last year.

In the period, the number of Japanese tourists coming to Viet Nam reached 500,000, an increase of 5.6 per cent compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, in the first eight months of the year, Japan welcomed nearly 53,000 Vietnamese visitors, up by 56 per cent compared to the figure of 2012's corresponding period.

Viet Nam set the goal of welcoming more than 7.4 million travellers in 2013, which can help earn around US$7.9 billion in revenues, up 15.6 per cent from 2012.

Source: VNS

02/11/2013

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