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Costa Classica and its sister cruisers make frequent visits to Vietnam (Photo courtesy of VNA)

Some 2,000 international tourists and crew members aboard Italian five-star cruiser Costa Classica berthed in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday as part of its frequent visits to the Southeast Asian destination every fortnight.
According to HCMC-based travel firm Saigontourist, which [...]

Costa Classica and its sister cruisers make frequent visits to Vietnam (Photo courtesy of VNA)

Some 2,000 international tourists and crew members aboard Italian five-star cruiser Costa Classica berthed in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday as part of its frequent visits to the Southeast Asian destination every fortnight.
According to HCMC-based travel firm Saigontourist, which [...]

Many cases of foreign travelers swindled by illegal taxis at Noi Bai airport have been reported recently. Travel firms have voiced concern that the existence of illegal taxis may seriously threaten the image of Vietnam’s tourism.
VND 6 million ($352) to go from Noi Bai to Hanoi’s centre

Cheating cases reportedly occurred in mid-2005. Foreign travelers, after [...]

A new resort named Hon Tam Eco Green Resort will open next Tuesday in Khanh Hoa Province’s Nha Trang City to cash in on a surge in travel demand during the country’s biggest festive season.

A new resort named Hon Tam Eco Green Resort will open next Tuesday in Khanh Hoa Province’s Nha Trang City.

The ecotourism [...]

While the number of travelers and turnover of the tourism industry have been decreasing dramatically, travel firms hope that the spring tours before, on, and after Tet will help stimulate the demand, bringing a new momentum to the industry in 2009
The destinations

On the afternoon of January 20, Thac Da resort in Ba Vi district in [...]

The security service fee for Tet has increased by two or three folds compared to normal. Long Hai Security has stopped receiving orders for Tet days, though Tet will only come in one week. 

Tet days will be the time when many families will be away for traveling, returning to home villages, while offices will have [...]

When asked about the response of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) to the complaints by travel firms that the 30-50% tour fee reductions are really shocking, VNAT said that the announced 30-50% just the average reductions.

Foreign tourists in Hai Phong City (Source: haiphong.gov.vn)

Vu The Binh, Head of the Travel Department under VNAT said [...]

Travelers, nowadays, tend to travel to the border province of Lang Son on weekends to do shopping. Dong Kinh, Dong Dang and now Tan Thanh markets have become well-known addresses for shoppers from Hanoi and other provinces. 

Dong Kinh of previous day, Tan Thanh nowadays

A lot of commodities

I met Thanh, who was once the tour guide [...]

With Tet just over a week away, the number of people travelling to central and northern provinces from Mien Dong Coach Station in HCM City has surged, station director Nguyen Ngoc Thua said.

Buses wait for passengers at HCM City east station. The number of passengers using the station’s bus services increases by 50 per cent [...]

The Saigontourist Travel Company welcomed 450 foreign tourists and crew who joined the five-star cruise liner ‘Columbus’ on January 12. The ship’s passengers were predominantly German.
The Columbus is the second cruise liner to be received by Saigontourist during the first half of January 2009. More than 200 tourists disembarked from the vessel to explore [...]