Honeymoon tour to Phu Quoc Island By Dat Tien in HCMC Honeymoons are known as a time for romance and stunning beaches are often suggested as ideal places for this special voyage. Therefore, tours operators are always offering honeymoon tours together with attractive services which are luring more and more local and foreign tourists. The three day two night tour includes a traditional Vietnamese wedding ceremony complete with a cake, champagne and a professional photographer to make a permanent record of the special occasion, a sigh-seeing cruise around Phu Quoc Island and parties at night. The happy couple will be able to explore the island which is endowed with clean, white sand beaches and an immense forest as well as the unique cultural features of the locals. Children here still wave and even blow kisses at strangers. The package price is US$1,714++ per couple. Phu Quoc Island is an ideal place for scuba diving, squid fishing, surfing, snorkeling and coral … [Read more...] about Honeymoon tour to Phu Quoc Island
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Welcoming Tet On Phu Quoc Island
Welcoming Tet On Phu Quoc Island By Dat Tien The four-star Saigon-Phu Quoc Resort & Spa offers special tours of Phu Quoc Island on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year This year, Saigon-Phu Quoc Resort & Spa, an affiliate of Saigontourist Holding Company, continues to launch tours for foreign tourists to enjoy Tet (Lunar New Year) with local people. This kind of tour is an opportunity for foreigners to study the Vietnamese culture with customs and traditional rituals. On these days, when Tet is approaching, Saigon-Phu Quoc Resort & Spa adds an ochna tree to make its dinner buffets more attractive. The ochna tree is six meters tall and is lit with 1,000 bulbs with golden light. Its trunk, branches and twigs are made of waste plastic pipes and painted dark brown, and its flowers are lanterns. At the New Year’s Eve dinner party (February 2), this ochna tree will be placed on a floating stage for the countdown festival. A giant string of firecrackers made of … [Read more...] about Welcoming Tet On Phu Quoc Island
Phu Quoc Island may have a casino
VietNamNet Bridge - The southern province of Kien Giang plans to allocate 130 hectares to a resort with casino on Phu Quoc Island. However, investors must have at least $4 billion of capital. Kien Giang's Vice Chair Dang Cong Huan on July 30 said that local, central officials and international investors met to discuss this project. The plot of land designed for this project is located in Da Chong ground in Bai Thom commune. Kien Giang will choose a foreign investor which commits to invest at least $4 billion in the project, in the form of bidding. The casino must cover around 30,000sq.m, which is sufficient to arrange 200-400 gambling tables and 2,000 gambling machines. The resort must have an international-standard convention center and five-star hotels with around 3,000 rooms. Huan said that the local government would collect the land fees once, for up to 70 years of duration. The casino will be licensed for less than 30 years. Some projectshalted On the same day, … [Read more...] about Phu Quoc Island may have a casino
Ecotourism development destroys forests on Phu Quoc Island
VietNamNet Bridge - The forests on Phu Quoc Island, including the forests within ecotourism projects, have been destroyed severely just because local people expect to get the compensation from the State. A lot of ecotourism development projects have been licensed on Phu Quoc Island. All of the projects cover big areas with vast forests, including primeval forests. After the land was allocated to the investors to develop projects, the forests have been destroyed severely. Lan Anh Company in June 2008 got the license from the Kien Giang provincial people's committee to develop the Vung Bau ecotourism site which is expected to cover an area of 267 hectares in Cua Can town on Phu Quoc Island. In principle, protecting and developing forests is a must for the investors of ecotourism projects. However, in reality, the forests on the land area allocated to Lan Anh Company have been damaged immoderately. Tien Phong reporters have found a forest in hamlet No. 4 of the project's area, … [Read more...] about Ecotourism development destroys forests on Phu Quoc Island
Berjaya to invest in a tourist resort on Phu Quoc island
While seeking to sell a number of hotels and tourist resorts worldwide, Berjaya Hotels & Resorts (Berjaya), Malaysia, showed its optimism and confidence in the potentials of the Vietnamese market. Executive Director of the group Joseph Won said that the organization is teaming with a Vietnamese company to set up a joint venture at a share ratio of 70/30 to run a construction project for a Berjaya tourist resort on Phu Quoc island. The project will cost some US $45 million and is expected to be finished by the third quarter of 2010. The Malaysian group is also considering to build a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City and a tourist resort along the Da Nang coastline within 4-5 years. Reportedly, the group is planning to turn its investment by expanding potential markets, namely Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Maldives, and Malaysia. Source: DDDN Translated by Thu Nguyen … [Read more...] about Berjaya to invest in a tourist resort on Phu Quoc island