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Entry to the Complex of Hue Monuments in the central city of Hue will be free for tourists on the first three days of Tet, February 16 to 18, while entry to the Ho Dynasty Citadel in the north-central

Hang Luoc Street in the Old Quarter of Hanoi is famous for its Tet market with various types of peach branches and trees, kumquat trees and other flowers from Hanoi’s famous flower villages.

The HCM City People’s Committee wants the Government to extend the visa waiver period for tourists from key foreign markets to increase the country’s tourism competitiveness and attract more visitors.

Xuan Truong Construction Company has just opened the third waterway for operation at Trang An eco-tourism site to serve tourists visiting the Trang An Scenic Landscape complex in Ninh Binh Province.

The Novaland Group and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have signed a major agreement on the “Development of the Mekong Delta’s Tourism Sector for Climate Change Adaptation”.

Many ceramic workshops in the southern province of Binh Duong have focused on producing dog-shaped savings containers to welcome the Lunar Year of the Dog.

AkzoNobel is involved in a fresco project representing the beauty of the sea and islands of Vietnam with the theme “Fresco for the Future”, helping to restore the appearance of Canh Duong fishing village.

Two locations in Vietnam – Sapa and Hoi An towns – have been named among the top ten places to visit in Southeast Asia in 2018, as selected by the readers of the UK-based travel website Rough Guides.

Experts from the Viet Nam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources have found a unique complex of fossilised coral – believed to date from 4,000 to 6,000 years ago – on the coast of Ly Son Island, 30km off

People have flocked to the Red River and lakes in Hanoi to release carp fish that are traditionally said to convey the Kitchen Gods to heaven on February 8.

New boat tours to recently-studied routes deep inside the Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex in the northern province of Ninh Binh will be open to tourists during Tet to meet higher travel demand.

Many people have flocked to Hanoi's Hang Ma Street to buy offerings for the coming Kitchen Gods' Day.

Hanoi’s authorities are attempting to raise swans on newly-dredged Hoan Kiem Lake.

The world’s longest sea cable car route was put into operation in Phu Quoc island district, Mekong Delta Kien Giang province on February 4.

For the past 30 years, a Pho vendor in Hanoi has been serving customers between 3-6 am.

With up to 40,000 mentions among 1.8 million Instagram posts tagged from ships and ports around the world, Vietnam ranks in the global Top 15 of the most Instagrammed cruise destinations on SeaHub, a cruise deal site.

The former imperial city of Hue has been recognised as an ASEAN Clean Tourist City, while the Pilgrimage Village has been named as an ASEAN Green Hotel.

Thung Nai in Hoa Binh province, attracts tourists with landscapes as beautiful as Ha Long Bay.

Sa Dec Flower Village in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap is attracting thousands of visitors as the Lunar New Year approaches.