Tourism

Phu Quoc is forecast to experience a "booming" end-of-year tourist season with the launch of many new international flights to meet the increasing demand from tourists worldwide who wish to experience and explore Vietnam's Pearl Island.

The Ninh Binh Tourism Food Festival will take place from October 18 to 29 while the Trang An - Cuc Phuong Hot Air Balloon Festival will be held from October 26 to 29.

Vietnam Airlines will move its operations at Shanghai Pudong Airport in China from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 from October 27.

Vietjet launched its first flights using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Tan Son Nhat Airport on October 17, flying to Melbourne and Seoul, marking a step towards sustainability in Vietnam's aviation sector.

Vietnam is ranked 15th among the world’s 20 best countries for tourists, according to the 2024 ranking compiled by the American travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler.

Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will increase the frequency of flights between Vietnam's southern largest economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok of Thailand from 3 to 4 flights per day starting December 1, using Airbus A321 aircraft.

From October 20, the time to visit Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay, in the northern province of Quang Ninh, will be extended to 8:00 p.m.

The Than Nong Tower, a symbol of the god of the rice civilization, is made up of 1,012 stone mortars arranged in an outer ring, with a solid concrete frame inside.

The central coastal province of Binh Thuan has prepared many special activities to welcome visitors to the Tourism Week 2024, scheduled to take place at Novaworld Phan Thiet Square, in the end of October.

Accommodation establishments in the central coastal city of Da Nang served an estimated 8.7 million visitors in the first nine months this year, a year-on-year increase of 33.3%, according to the City Statistics Office.

(CPV) - Cat Ba aims to develop tourism in the direction of ensuring harmony with the natural landscape, exploiting natural landscape, water surface, hills and mountains on the principle of minimizing intervention in natural terrain, aiming to become a smart and ecological tourist island.

The Vietnam Bakery Association (Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association) and the Saigon Professional Chefs Association on October 9 co-organized a meeting to announce information about the Vietnam Bakery Cup 2024.

Governor of the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Jeju province Oh Young Hoon underscored the significance of setting up regular direct air routes between the tourist island and Vietnam, while meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador Vu Ho on October 8.

The railway industry sold more than 43,000 tickets after just one day of sale, with revenue reaching nearly 77 billion VND, according to statistics.

The three-day Hanoi Tourism Ao Dai Festival has attracted more than 63,000 visitors, according to the Hanoi Department of Tourism.

Vietnam welcomed nearly 1.3 million international visitors in September, according to data released by the General Statistics Office (GSO) on October 6.

International visitors to Vietnam were estimated at more than 11.4 million by the end of August. The country’s tourism sector set a target of welcoming 18 million international visitors in 2024, returning to the golden period before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Taiwan (China) Tourism Bureau on October 2 met with airlines and tourism businesses in Ho Chi Minh City to promote two-way tourism between the two sides.

Tourism activities in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City recorded an explosion in the first nine months of 2024, reflected in the growth in the number of tourists over the months.

Ha Long International Cruise Port on September 30 received the Italian-flagged Costa Serena cruise ship, carrying nearly 3,000 foreign passengers and over 1,000 crew members.

Phu Quoc City in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is forecast to welcome 123,250 international visitors in the last 3 months of the year due to 2025 Christmas, New Year and winter holidays, according to the provincial Department of Tourism.

The South Central Coastal province of Ninh Thuan greeted 3.2 million tourists in the first nine months of 2024, a year-on-year increase of 20%, all finishing the year’s target, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

(CPV) – Recently, the Party Committee and the government of Duong Lam commune in Son Tay town have mobilized and promoted people, organizations and unions to participate in building advanced new-style rural areas.

The air route connecting Can Tho with Phu Quoc will be operated by Vietnam Airlines using ATR 72 aircraft, with a capacity of about 72 passengers.

Total revenue of the Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City tourism industry in the first nine months of 2024 is estimated at 140,398 billion VND, up 11.9% year on year, reaching 73.9% of the 2024 plan.

The south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa set a target of welcoming nine million overnight visitors in 2024; including three million international visitors. However, it took only nine months for the provincial tourism industry to achieve the target.

(CPV) - Hanoi has many craft villages that have been formed, existed and developed for a long time, creating unique characteristics. Aiming to meet the requirements of economic development today, craft villages not only provide jobs for people but contribute to the development of local tourism and have their own appeal.

Japan is welcoming the increasing number of Vietnamese tourists while the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) in Vietnam is making efforts to promote tourism to Vietnamese travelers.

A delegation from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism met and worked with the Los Angeles city government (USA) on September 25 to connect cinema and tourism development.

The Huong Son landscape complex (Huong Pagoda) in Huong Son commune, My Duc district and the Hong Van commune tourist area in Thuong Tin district have been recognized as city-level tourist areas, according a recent decision of the Hanoi People’s Committee.