Travel

Deborah Stone and Nick Dalton, co-authors of the book The World’s Great River Journeys, have named Vietnam's Red River among the eight unmissable river trips worldwide, according to an article on the UK's Daily Mail newspaper.

Fifteen short films about Hanoi will be broadcasted on the US’s Cable News Network to promote the Vietnamese capital.

The central province of Phú Yên has sufficient conditions to set up a Global Geopark, Guy Martini, Chairman of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Council, said after a field trip to the site earlier this week.

A silk and brocade festival will take place in Hoi An, Quang Nam Province, and is expected to attract dozens of artisans from inside and outside country.

By the end of July 2019, Hanoi had 3,499 accommodation establishments with 60, 812 rooms, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

The northern province of Quang Ninh will set up a team to compete at the Clipper 2019-2020 World Yacht Race, aiming to promote the local tourism, particularly the World Heritage Site of Ha Long Bay.

Binh Dinh Province will build a giant sculptural relief about the mythical history of the Vietnamese people on a local mountain in Quy Nhon City.

The itinerary for a tourist visiting Hanoi typically includes some sightseeing for Instagram photos and trying out a bowl of ‘pho’ or a ‘banh mi’, possibly with a cup of egg coffee.

A hydropower reservoir is becoming a popular tourist destination in Tuyen Quang Province thanks to the limestone in the middle of the reservoir.

Portal provides useful information about central province and city of Hue to local and foreign tourists.

Three national costume entries which Vietnamese representative Hoang Thuy could potentially wear at the upcoming Miss Universe 2019 pageant have just been announced.

The 7th international festival of Vietnamese traditional martial arts is scheduled to be held in Quy Nhon City in the southern central province of Binh Dinh in August.

A twin-hull, double-decker speedboat has been launched by the Phu Quoc Express Company from Tran De Port in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang to the famous tourist site of Con Dao Island off the coast of southern

Tran Quoc Pagoda in Hanoi and Buu Long Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City have been listed among the top 20 most beautiful Buddhist temples voted by the US magazine National Geographic.

Ha Long Bay has been named among the world’s most beautiful sunrise spots in 2019 by the Microsoft Network.

A young man in Hanoi has launched a photo collection following his tour by motorbike to 42 cities and provinces across the country.

A festival on the cultural preservation and development of the Cham ethnic group will be organised in the south central province of Phu Yen on August 13-16.

International tourist arrivals to Vietnam topped 1.31 million in July, up 11 percent month-on-month and 10.7 percent year-on-year, said the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) on July 26.

The south central province of Khanh Hoa has seen a rapid rise in the number of foreign tourists from Northeast Asia since the beginning of the year, according to the provincial Department of Tourism.