Tourism

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism has just proposed to the City People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to petition the Prime Minister for studying extending the list of countries exempted from unilateral visas.

Ho Chi Minh City held a flag raising ceremony at the space of the Thu Ngu Flagpole and ASEAN Flagpole, Bach Dang Wharf Park in District 1 on December 5 to launch the second Tourism Week in 2022.

Thai Vietjet on December 2 resumed the only direct service between Da Lat, the city of flowers, and Thailand’s Bangkok capital after nearly three years of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been announced as the latest destinations joining the international selection of the MICHELIN Guide, the most prestigious culinary collection in the world.

Foreign tourists to Vietnam in November 2022 numbered 596,900, up 23.2% from the previous month and a 39.7% fold increase compared to the same period last year, according to General Statistics Office (GSO).

(CPV) – The aviation industry served 8.67 million passengers through airports in November 2022, an increase of 7% compared to October 2022 and 630% compared to the same period last year, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

The international kitesurfing week 2022 and other cultural and tourism events will be held from December 16 to 25 in the southern province of Ninh Thuan, with many exciting activities.

The Tourism Information Center under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has launched an email system to promote Vietnam's tourism at https://mail.vietnam.travel.

As many as 88.5% of Vietnamese tourists traveled both domestically and internationally in the first nine months of this year. The outbound tourism market in Vietnam has recovered strongly, faster than expected.

Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, welcomed more than 7 million tourists in 2022, an increase of 340% against last year, said the provincial People’s Committee in a conference on November 22.

In November and the first 11 months of 2022, the total number of tourists to Hanoi is expected to rise by 5 times over the same period last year, according to the City Department of Tourism.

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.

(CPV) – Vietnam and Japan will strengthen tourism cooperation activities, exchange delegations and promote promotion together to rebuild tourists’ confidence and restore visitor exchange as before the pandemic.

The competition is taking place in Lai Chau from November 17 to 20 with the participation of 100 paragliders, including 35 foreign ones from Australia, the United States, the Republic of Korea, England, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan.

Vietnam ranks 5th in the Asia-Pacific region for the number of accommodation establishments earning Booking.com’s Sustainable Tourism badge, with 5,093 properties.

The travel website Time Out has just named Ninh Binh the top site among attractive destinations in Southeast Asia with neglected beauty, like a jewel in the middle of heaven and earth.

The World Travel Awards, world-renowned awards in the travel industry, has just honored Hanoi as the world’s leading city tourism destination in 2022.

The Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO) in Vietnam on November 15 launched a campaign to promote Japanese tourism in the Southeast Asian nation.

The Asian Records Organization has officially recognized new Asian records for Vietnamese cuisine and specialty gifts for the third time in 2022.

The Hanoi Municipal Tourism Department has coordinated with Vietnam Airlines to organise a reception for a fam trip delegation from 12 Australian travel agencies, following a period of disruption due to the COVID-19 epidemic.

Vietnam's tourism destinations and brands have been named in the top 16 award categories of the 2022 World Travel Awards, with the country accredited as World’s Leading Heritage Destination for the third time since 2019.

Tam Dao town in the northern mountainous province of Vinh Phuc has won the award for world’s leading town destination 2022, the organizers announced at the 29th World Travel Awards ceremony held in Oman on November 11.

The 2022 Da Lat Flower Festival will be organized into a series of events from November to the end of December. In which, there are 9 main programs in the space of Da Lat City and Bao Loc City.

The Dak Lak People’s Committee has just signed a Decision approving technical assistance provision to transform the elephant riding tourism model into an elephant-friendly tourism model, said the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on November 10.

The Muong Khuong district People’s Committee in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on November 10 organized a ceremony to raise the flag and inaugurate the national flagpole on the top of Co Tien Mountain.

Hanoi has more than 348 hotels and service apartments with a total of 26,849 rooms, according to JLL Vietnam, belonging to Jones Lang LaSalle International Real Estate Investment and Management Services Group.

Airshow 2022, a joint effort between the US luxury airline Gulfstream and Sun Air, a premium carrier of Vietnam’s Sun Group, opened for the first time in Vietnam in the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 5.

The week will officially take place in the volcanic area and some locations in two communes of Chu Dang Ya and Nghia Hung in Chu Pah district, the central highlands province of Gia Lai.

The US magazine Travel Leisure has recently suggested Vietnam among the 12 most amazing yet affordable honeymoon destinations for newlyweds.

Quang Ninh aims to attract 1.5 million visitors from now until the end of the year, and to greet 11.5 million visitors for the whole year.