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Hue City will move abandoned sculptures at local public places to parks along the Huong River, according to the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Hoi An Town in the central province of Quang Nam will pilot the use of electric cars to transport tourists from January 1.

The Bà Nà Hills Golf Club in the central city has been named ‘Best New Golf Course in the World’ at the annual World Golf Awards ceremony in the Algarve, Portugal.

Vietnam was ranked 29th among Countries with the Top English Language Skills in the EF English Proficiency Index, compiled by EF Education First, a global language training company.

Ba Be National Park will be the top priority in efforts of northern mountainous Bac Kan province to develop its tourism sector under its development plan for the 2016-2021 period and vision to 2030.

Officials of the Hanoi Department of Tourism met on November 11 with businesspeople and journalists from the Republic of Korea (RoK), who are on a fact-finding trip to the city, to discuss ways to boost tourism cooperation between the

The Prime Minister has approved overall plans for the development of the Son Tra National Tourism Area in the central coastal city of Da Nang through to 2025 with a vision to 2030.

Buckwheat flowers from the northern province of Hà Giang will be showcased at Lý Thái Tổ Park in downtown Hanoi during a three-day cultural festival of Mong people starting Friday.

The Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports is planning to organise ‘Hanoi Festive,’ a fireworks, light and colours festival, to celebrate the 2017 New Year.

The newspaper New York Times of the United States has named Vietnam one of the 20 places to travel for young people in their twenties.

The ethic Khmer people in the southern province of Soc Trang are looking forward to their traditional Ok Om Bok festival from November 13-14, particularly the Ghe Ngo (Khmer boat) race.

Tran Quoc Pagoda in Hanoi has just been named one of the world’s 16 most beautiful pagodas by the British Daily Mail Newspaper.

The Da Nang People’s Committee has granted licences to 29 cruise boats to operate on the Han River and on inshore routes in the Son Tra Peninsula for a year (2016-2017).

A new boat service to provide tours around the Huong River in Hue has been launched.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has accepted an initiative by the People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Tri on opening tourist routes to its Con Co Island District.

Domestic and foreign researchers and managers in archaeology gathered in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on October 31 to seek ways to promote the value of the archaeological studies of the Paleolithic Age.

For over a decade the pace of tourism development in HCM City has been rather slow due to limited products in terms of places of interest and cultural and entertainment activities for tourists.

The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism and the People’s Committee of Yen Bai province has just jointly held a conference to build a national dossier on Xoe dance of Thai ethnic people to submit for UNESCO recognition as

Vietnam has been rated by leading Australia-based travel website News as among cheapest destinations for tourists in the world.