This year’s celebration of Dong Hoi Culture and Tourism Week features traditional boat racing as the main event along with the other seven activities lined up for the festivity. Dong Hoi City is located in the central province of Quang Binh and this year’s celebration of the week-long affair started last April 2016. Since a […]
After a recent meeting by the Vietnam-Japan Tourism Committee led by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and the Japan National Tourism Agency, both countries agreed that Japan will open its first tourism office in Hanoi. Officially named the Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO), the office will instill more education about its country while helping […]
For the third consecutive year, Danang placed first in the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) with a score of 68.34. Aside from the city’s transparency, transactions cost reductions and proactivity, its Centre for Public Administration which opened in September 2014 is the major factor for its successive leads. It functions as a coordinator of local policy […]
The Tet Lunar New Year Holiday is a time of family reunions and joyous celebration. But amidst the festivity, a mother and her child go about their usual ways like it’s any ordinary day, and it unknowingly caught the eye of a stranger and eventually the hearts of people all over the world. Ho Hai […]
The Datanla Falls in Da Lat has suspended all its adventure tours following the deaths of three British tourists who, according to reports, climbed down the waterfalls without proper safety equipment. The three victims are Christian Sloan, 25 years old; Beth Anderson, 25; and Izzy Squire, 19 who were reported to descend the falls without […]
An anonymous Vietnamese philanthropist built a concrete bridge for the ethnic minority group Van Kieu who lives in Cu Pua Village, Dakrong Commune in the central province of Quang Tri who used to risk their lives every time they cross a fast-flowing stream on just wire cables. The makeshift bridge is called “Anh Teo Sa […]
Pictures of a foreign tourist crying after being robbed in Ho Chi Minh City went viral and officially endangered Vietnam’s global image as an ideal destination. On March 11, 2016, Friday, a European woman and her friend were walking and reading a map along Luong Huu Khanh Street in District 1 when two men riding […]
Vietnam recently issued a visa exemption policy for visitors from six European countries specifically United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Belarus good for 15 days effective from July 1, 2015 to July 30, 2016 and expectedly has resulted in more foreign tourists visiting the country. This government resolution was decided upon in order to […]
Since information and communications technology is very crucial in today’s every day undertakings, the Vietnamese government acknowledged this and therefore teamed up with Microsoft in order to deliver the best possible IT solutions. In 2015 therefore, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and the city’s Department of Information and Communication joined forces with the […]
Two European philanthropists walked 7,000 kilometres from their continent to Asia in order to raise funds for Vietnamese children in need. Simon Niggli from Switzerland and Christoph Obmascher from Austria began their long and extraordinary adventure in January 18, 2015 and have already travelled through 19 countries. Their journey is a personal mission to help […]