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A luxury resort with 60 rooms and 24 bungalows will be built next to the famous Ban Gioc Waterfall in Cao Bang Province. It is expected that the resort will open in late 2013.

Many shops in HCM City have decorated their stores and streets with colourful ornaments to prepare and celebrate Christmas.

The capital city will be developing six typical traditional craft villages till 2015 closely linked with the tourism sector in the hope of exploiting its cultural and economic advantages.

Hanoi plans to develop six traditional craft villages into tourist destinations to attract domestic and international tourists from now until 2015.

The Vietnamese Ao Dai has graced the world’s catwalks, acclaimed for its luxuriously elegant appearance as well as its softness and lightness.

Ngu Hanh Son (Marble Mountains) is a famous destination in the central city of Danang that tourists should put it in their itinerary.

It is common knowledge in Vietnam that the Mekong Delta in Vietnam has two seasons, the “dry” one between December and April, and the “rainy” one between May and November.

Caves in central Thanh Hoa Province have provided soil evidence of climate change from end of the glacier age, plus tools and an ancient cemetery dating back more than 10,000 years.

The Vietnamese Ao Dai has graced the world’s catwalks, acclaimed for its luxuriously elegant appearance as well as its softness and lightness.

Thirty six hotels in Vietnam are among 494 outstanding hotels worldwide selected to win the Gold Circle Award 2012 presented by leading Asian hotel booking site, Agoda.com.

Vietnam’s beauty in the early 20th century was featured through photos taken by several foreign photographers in 1915 and 1916.

The number of the Republic of Korean tourists to Vietnam in November showed the highest year-on-year increase of 31.5 percent.

Despite being the host of the National Tourism Year 2011 with many scenic spots, beautiful beaches and tourist attractions, Phu Yen Province is still having a lot of its tourism potentials untapped.

Thousands of people gathered in Tra Vinh City’s Ao Ba Om area to attend Khmer ethnic Ok-Om-Bok ceremony.

There have been around 656,000 international tourists visiting Vietnam this month, raising the total number of tourist arrivals in the January-November to nearly 6.036 million.

The peak season of inbound tourism has arrived, yet many tour operators have not recorded growths in international tourist arrivals.

Happy Route is the name of the area that connects the three communes of Ha Giang-Dong Van-Meo Vac in the northernmost province of Ha Giang.

At this time of the year visitors to Hue in central Vietnam are very impressed by light rains falling almost without let-up for days.

With the fast approach of winter in town, most Hanoi lovers are seeking new places for snack food and their most iconic wintry dishes are nem chua ran (fried fermented pork), banh mi thit xien (grilled pork with toast),