Travel

Ho Chi Minh City Party Secretary Dinh La Thang has moved the construction deadline for the already long-delayed $500-million Saigon Safari Park in the city’s Cu Chi district to later this year.

More than 70 per cent of international visitors to Vietnam over the last decade spent their holidays on the coast, according to the latest report from Savills on Vietnam’s hospitality industry in the first half of 2016.

Ambassadors from seven countries concluded their exploration of the world’s largest cave at Son Doong in Quang Binh Province.

Repair works began on Sunday to fix the defects on Nguyễn Huệ Street in HCM City, a crowded pedestrian street for both locals and tourists to the city.

A Hùng Kings Temple will be built on Trường Sa (Spratly) Archipelago with the aim of spreading Hùng Kings worship and paying tribute to the ancestors of Vietnamese people.

An Bang Seaside Village, a home-stay complex in An Bang beach of Hội An City, has received the ASEAN Homestays 2016 award from the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

A park named after the late General Vo Nguyen Giap was inaugurated after two months of construction on Son Ca Island in the Truong Sa (Spratly) district, the central province of Khanh Hoa.

The government of Quang Nam Province has kicked off the 2016 tourism year in the upland district of Tay Giang.

The Prime Minister recently approved the use of electric four-wheel vehicles for tourism in the central province of Quang Nam and the southern province of Kien Giang.

An interactive wildlife park will be launched in July in Quy Nhon city, the provincial capital of south-central Binh Dinh province, and be one of the leading parks of its kind in Southeast Asia.

A group of ambassadors to Vietnam from several countries arrived at the central province of Quảng Bình on May 11 and will begin their excursion to Sơn Đoòng Cave on May 12.

Boasting historic-cultural values as well as gorgeous landscapes, Triem Tay village in Dien Ban town, the central coastal province of Quang Nam has great potential for sustainable eco-tourism.

The Prime Minister has recently approved a project to restore a part of the Kinh Thien Palace – Doan Mon (The Southern Gate) site in the middle of the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi.

Hanoi has carried out restoration work on the Morocco Gate in Tan Linh commune, Ba Vi district in an effort to boosting friendship between Vietnam and Morocco.

A number of arts performances by both domestic and foreign artists took place at different stages of the ongoing Hue Festival in the central province of ThuaThien-Hue on May 1, leaving a strong impression on both locals and visitors.

Many old villas in HCM City have been demolished or have been left to deteriorate while the city authorities lacks comprehensive management regulations or support policies for the owners.

Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee has allowed Cham Island Tourist Company Limited to launch a new and fascinating tour to explore the undersea world: walking tour under the sea.

For only 160,000 VND (7.18 USD), travel aficionados can now enjoy a one-day train tour to Thuy Chau tourist site in Di An town, the neibouring province of Binh Duong, from Ho Chi Minh City’s outskirts via Sai Gon

A rope-swinging adventure tour at Datanla waterfalls, where three foreign tourists died in February, was under inspection on April 26.