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| Vietnam Travel Note June & July |
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| Northern Bac Ninh Province opens folk song festival |
The annual Lim Festival of folk songs was opened on February 9 (the 12th day of the first lunar month) in Tien Du District, northern Bac Ninh Province.
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| VietNam to develop tourism sector |
HA NOI — Viet Nam will strive to become one of the leading nations in tourism development in the region during 2006-10, according to Vo Thi Thang, General Director of the Viet Nam Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
To achieve this target, the tourism sector needs to strengthen investment in developing tourism products, improve the quality of services, attract more foreign direct investments (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA).
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| First Vietnamese private hotel to get five-star status |
The Windsor Plaza Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City became the first locally-owned private hotel in Vietnam to get five-star status.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism conferred the status Saturday on the hotel owned by Van Thinh Phat Co. and built at an estimated VND1.3 trillion (US$ 81 million). |
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| Tourists flock to Vietnam in January |
Foreign tourist arrivals in Vietnam rose 15.9 percent year-on-year with the country welcoming 349,000 visitors in January, the Vietnam Administration of Tourism said.
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| Vietnamese metro’s ambitious tourism plans |
Southern hub Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend VND10 billion (US$629,000) on tourism promotion in the domestic and foreign markets this year.
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| More Thai motorcades tour central Vietnam |
Vietnam’s central region welcomed two more tourist motorcades from Thailand in the first days of 2006, an auspicious start to promote land-based tourism travel between regional neighbors.
The motorcades, made up of 55 right-hand drive (RHD) vehicles and more than 200 visitors, entered Vietnam via Lao Bao Border Gate in Quang Tri central province. |
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| Vietnam says bird flu contained |
| Vietnam has contained bird flu with no more outbreaks reported in the past three weeks in the 21 cities and provinces affected, the Agriculture Ministry said. |
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| Foreigners flock to Vietnam on New Year |
Thousands of foreign visitors arrived in Vietnam in the new year, mostly from Japan, Russia, and Europe.
The Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Department, the Southern Airport Authority, and many travel companies welcomed and presented flowers to some of them at Tan Son Nhat International Airport Sunday evening. |
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