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| Travel+Leisure reveals best family resorts in Vietnam. (Photo courtesy of Travel+Leisure) |
The southcentral province of Khanh Hoa is home to the Anam Cam Ranh, an Indochine-style five-star resort located on the oceanfront which offers numerous amenities and facilities that families and children will love, according to the magazine.
It boasts three freshwater swimming pools, a kids’ club with supervised activities for children aged four to 12, and a farm where children can interact with animals and learn about growing fruits and veggies, the website shared.
The resort’s recreational offerings will keep all ages both active and entertained, with yoga, mini-golf, water sports, kite flying, and plenty more.
Travel+Leisure also wrote that Anantara Hoi An Resort in central Quang Nam province provides a tranquil retreat for families to enjoy during their vacation.
For older children, there is lantern-making and junior cooking classes to attend, alongside a wide range of enjoyable cultural activities and excursions both in and around Hoi An. Basket-boat rides, cycling tours and rice-farm experiences are all also great fun for adventurous families.
Four Seasons Resort the Nam Hai in central Da Nang city offers a long list of experiences for all-ages, including Chuon Chuon (dragonfly) Kids’ Club which has toys, books, arts and crafts, family tours, and water sports.
The website also shared that InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort in Da Nang offers visitors a cinema with daily movies and a family-friendly karaoke room, plus activities like pizza making, kick boxing, mocktail making, and nature tours.
Travel+Leisure revealed that Regent Phu Quoc resort on Phu Quoc island gives children a colourful indoor space with a playground, mini theater, books, and games.
In addition, the resort boasts a luxury catamaran for private charter, plus a range of exciting aquatic and island adventures.
Da Nang unveils MICE tourism promotion policy
Da Nang has continued to apply incentive policies in a bid to attract MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) tourists, aiming to turn the coastal city into the leading destination for MICE tourism in Southeast Asia, VOV reported data by the Da Nang municipal Department of Tourism.
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| Photo for illustration (Source: VOV) |
The city is providing assistance in welcoming guests, presenting souvenirs, and giving consultancy for organising MICE events, as well as honouring travel firms that bring MICE guests to Da Nang.
In particular, the coastal city will provide support for surveying and arranging events for a group of 500 visitors or more.
Nguyen Thi Hoai An, deputy director of the Da Nang Department of Tourism, emphasised that the central city has drawn up a plan aimed at expanding its MICE tourism policy by launching communication campaigns, increasing advertisements via LED screens, and arranging displacement motorbikes for groups of over 350 guests each.
She went on to reveal that the city also intends to organise a promotional programme in Hong Kong (China) and get involved in a MICE tourism networking event in Singapore.
Last year Da Nang’s MICE tourism programme attracted 163 groups of tourists with 45,344 domestic and international visitors.
Over the past four months the city welcomed 42 domestic and international MICE delegations with more than 12,600 visitors.
Programme introduces cultural identities of Lo Lo ethnic community in Cao Bang
A cultural day of Lo Lo ethnic group was held in Ca Meng Village, Duc Hanh Commune, Bao Lam District, Cao Bang Province, on May 4, reported NDO.
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| Agricultural products and handicraft products of Bao Lam District displayed at the event. (Source: NDO) |
The event featured a folk singing contest, a show featuring the traditional costume of the Lo Lo ethnic community, and a brocade weaving competition.
Visitors to the event could take part in various folk games such as tug of war, stick pushing, and carrying baskets of corn on the back.
Booths displaying agricultural products and handicraft products of Bao Lam District were also set up at the event.
According to Ma Gia Hanh, Chairman of the Bao Lam District People’s Committee, the district has a population of 65,000, including nine ethnic groups. Of whom, there are nearly 1,340 Lo Lo ethnic people living in four villages in Duc Hanh Commune.
The Lo Lo ethnic people in Bao Lam District has many unique traditional cultural identities, which can be seen through their costumes, folk songs, and bronze drum dance.
In recent years, thanks to the due attention and care of local authorities, the livelihood of ethnic groups in Bao Lam District, including the Lo Lo people, has been significantly improved.
Measures needed to promote Dien Bien's tourism potential
A large number of visitors have flocked to the northern province of Dien Bien, especially to the special national relic site of Dien Bien Phu Battlefield, in the days leading up to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954-2024), reported VNA.
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| Tourists visit the A1 Hill in the special national relic site of Dien Bien Phu Battlefield (Photo: Saigon Giai Phong Newspaper) |
According to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Dien Bien city welcomes about 5,000 visitors each day, even double on peak days as the locality is busting with celebration activities.
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le Thanh Do said the completion of the upgrade and expansion project of Dien Bien Airport and the reopening of direct flights to the two national largest economic hubs of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have facilitated transportation, investment attraction, and tourism development.
Tourism activities have developed rapidly in the locality, initially forming distinctive and diverse tourism products, he said.
Experts said Dien Bien’s tourism industry has many opportunities for stronger growth, becoming a key economic sector in the coming time as the locality has been emerging as an attractive tourist destination in the northwestern region and the country in general.
Dien Bien also serves as a place for educating the revolutionary tradition to younger generations, they noted.
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| Dien Bien Phu Historical Victory Museum. (Source: VNA) |
Vice Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Hoang Hiep underlined the necessary to improve the quality and effectiveness of historical relic sites in Dien Bien, thus upholding their value for tourism development.
It requires key solutions to create breakthroughs for the tourism industry, insiders said, adding that Dien Bien must develop distinctive products and seek ways to optimise its potential and advantages in boosting sustainable tourism development./.