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Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will pilot an open-top double-decker bus tour service by the end of this year.

Hanoi St. Joseph's Church is being decorated to welcome the coming Christmas holiday.

Ho Chi Minh City was named among the top 15 most searched destinations by global travelers for the holiday season as complied by Booking.com, one of the world’s leading online travel companies.

Hanoi is speeding up the establishment of a night food market near Truc Bach Lake in Ba Dinh District.

The Hanoi Department of Construction has just proposed to the municipal People's Committee to offer free entrance to Thong Nhat Park from January 1, 2023.

These days, people in Hanoi’s Nhat Tan Village are busy trimming leaves for peach trees to prepare for the coming Lunar New Year, or Tet.

Around 350 booths, including 50 of foreign companies, are promising to bring a lot of new and interesting experience to visitors to the Vietnam International Travel Mart to be held in the central city of Da Nang from December 9-11.

The central province of Quang binh that houses Son Doong, the largest cave in the world, plans to launch a pilot tour Hung Thoong (Thoong Valley) in the coming months.

Ho Chi Minh City expects to fully exploit bleisure travel - a novel type of tourism combining business travel with leisure time.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been selected by Michelin as the latest destinations joining the international selection, as compiled by the Michelin Guide.

Renowned tourism website Women's Weekly of Singapore has named Fansipan among the leading five destinations to visit for mountain trekking at the end of the year, with the website noting the Vietnamese mountain’s impressive views.

Cherry blossoms have been in full bloom in the tourist town of Sapa, attracting lots of visitors.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has inscribed the art of pottery making of the Cham people on the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.

Nearly 597,000 foreigners have visited Vietnam in November, bringing the total number of international tourists to the country in the first 11 months of this year to 2.95 million.

Another 175 metres of branch-worked caves have just been found in Southeast Asia's longest volcanic cave, Cave C7, in the central highlands province of Dak Nong.

Vietnam has been named as the Asia's Best Golf Destination 2022 at the ninth annual World Golf Awards which was recently held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Some streets in Hanoi’s Old Quarter are already filled with a Christmas atmosphere.

Banh ran (as it is called in the north of Vietnam) or Banh Cam (in the south), is a familiar deep-fried sticky rice dessert that can be found at any market in Vietnam.

The number of tourists arriving in Hanoi since the beginning of the year is estimated at over 17 million, representing a five-fold increase year on year, according to the Municipal Department of Tourism.