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The five-star Costa Fortuna cruise ship arrived in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh on December 9, marking the opening of a marine tourism route linking the locality to Fujian province, China.

The Da Nang international airport has secured first position in Vietnam in terms of providing the best service quality, according to a survey of 6,000 passengers in the April – September period, conducted by the Civil Aviation Authority of

Banh mi Hoi An (Hoi An-style bread rolls) has been listed among the world’s Top 10 sandwiches by Austrian travel website Traveller, together with well-known American cheeseburgers, English bacon butties, and Japanese Katsu Sando.

‘Bai Choi’ singing (a popular folklore style of singing in the central and south central regions of Vietnam), has been added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Vietnam’s eight northwestern mountainous provinces will boost links and lure more investment in tourism and road infrastructure to reach target of welcoming 2.3 million foreign visitors and 14 million local tourists by 2020.

Flower fields in Hanoi’s Tay Tuu Village have become more beautiful at night with light created by thousands of lamps.

HCM City’s waterway buses have already transported thousands of passengers in the ten days since beginning services.

Xoan and Bai Choi singing, two forms of Vietnamese folk music, are among 35 cultural heritages applying to be added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The Prime Minister has signed a decision recognizing the hill town of Sapa in the northern province of Lao Cai as a national tourism site.

Ho Chi Minh City's Nguyen Hue Street will be decorated with flowers for the week around Lunar New Year.

Tourists often flock to Ha Giang from October to December in order to see the fields of buckwheat flowers that has become the province's signature.

The central coastal city of Quy Nhon has been named among the top 10 winter sun destinations for 2018, according to the UK newspaper The Guardian.

The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi will be reopened for visitors to pay tribute to the late President on December 5 after more than three months of repair.

Mastercard's Global Destinations Cities Index ranked Bangkok the world’s most-visited city, with 19.41-million visitors last year, followed by London, Paris, Dubai, Singapore, and New York.

The Lam Dong tea and silk product week will be featured at the Da Lat Flower Festival 2017, which is scheduled to take place on December 23-27.

Vietnam welcomed more than 11.6 million international tourists in 2017, not yet counting December, a year-on-year rise of 27.8%, according to Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowers of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, and the unique cultural values of the province’s local ethnic people is taking place in Dong Van District.

Finland has just donated 100 trees to Hanoi on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Finland National day.

An Australian fam-trip delegation is surveying Vietnam’s tourism to sound out business prospects and work with potential local partners over measures to promote travel between the two nations.