Viet Nam News HCM City - Malaysia-based cruise liner Dream Cruises is set to operate a new vessel capable of carrying 3,500 passengers to Việt Nam from November, according to the HCM City-based travel firm Viet Excursions. The cruise liner is offering two-, five-, and seven-day tours of Việt Nam. It will make more than 10 trips to ports in the southern province of Bà Riạ - Vũng Tàu, the central cities of Đà Nẵng and Nha Trang, and the northern city of Hạ Long between November and March next year. Besides Việt Nam, it will also bring passengers from Malaysia and Singapore to China. Phan Xuân Anh, chairman of Viet Excursions, said Dream Cruises is a new cruise liner whose passengers are mainly Chinese-speaking high income earners. The new ship is almost finished and will be launched in October. Viet Excursions regularly serves tourists coming aboard American and European cruise lines. Anh said the number of tourists has risen by 10 per cent this year. - VNS … [Read more...] about Malaysian cruiseliner to offer Việt Nam tours
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Danish gymnasts open Viet Nam tour
Danish gymnasts open Viet Nam tour (09-02-2006) HA NOI — The National Danish Performance Team initiate their tour of Viet Nam today at Ha Noi's Combinatorial Palace as part of their sixth world journey. The team, founded in 1993, will present a show whose central theme is the universal power of love, expressed through dance and tumbling. "This is the third time a Danish gymnastics team has performed in Viet Nam and during this visit they will present a very different performance from the last two times," said Danish ambassador to Ha Noi, Peter Lysholt Hansen, early this week. The team's first two performances were mostly exercises to display their complicated skills. This time around their abilities will be expressed through a more artistic and rhythmic love story, said the ambassador. The 30-strong team will tour Hue, Da Nang and Nha Trang as well as Ha Noi and HCM City for three weeks. During their first two visits in 1995 and 2000, they performed in northern provinces and … [Read more...] about Danish gymnasts open Viet Nam tour
Viet Nam tour organised for Viet kieu
Domestic Press Highlights (07-12-2005) Viet Nam tour organised for Viet kieu The HCM City Viet kieu Business Club will organise its second trans-Viet Nam journey for Viet kieu (overseas Vietnamese) businesspeople to study the investment climate and seek business partners in 26 provinces and cities between December 15 and next January 19. Along the way, Viet kieu will have the opportunity to meet local officials and businesspeople in the cities of Can Tho, Da Nang and Hue, the provinces of An Giang, Vinh Long, Dong Nai, Binh Duong and Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen, and Ha Noi. Thanh Nien (Young People) Seafood exports reach $2.5 billion The fisheries sector has reached this year's target of exporting US$2.5 billion in seafood products, deputy fisheries minister Nguyen Thi Hong Minh said at a seminar on Monday. Viet Nam targets to export $4 billion in seafood products in 2010 and $4.5 billion in 2020. To meet these targets, the country is to establish distribution networks at foreign markets … [Read more...] about Viet Nam tour organised for Viet kieu
Trans-Viet Nam tour for Buddhists
Travellers Notes (29-04-2006) Trans-Viet Nam tour for Buddhists Saigontourist Travel Service is conducting a trans-Viet Nam tour for a group of 80 overseas Vietnamese Buddhists from Australia, Canada, France and the US from April 16 to May 3. The tour, which combines travel with charity activities, began in HCM City and takes in Buon Me Thuot, Hoi An, Hue, Phong Nha, Nghe An, Ninh Binh, Ha Long, Hai Duong, Vinh Phuc, Ha Noi, Soc Son, Tien Giang, Kien Giang and Can Tho. The group has visited historic pagodas, Truong Son Cemetery and Dong Loc crossroads. A charity fund of US$60,000 donated by the Buddhists is being distributed to the blind, rehab centres, orphanages, leper houses, centres for homeless people, dioxin victims and poor families. Tourism sector to offer more Viet Nam's tourism industry will enhance co-operation with international carriers to attract more foreign tourists. The Viet Nam Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is encouraging overseas airlines to carry both inbound and … [Read more...] about Trans-Viet Nam tour for Buddhists
Viet Nam’s tourism bounces
by Ha Nguyen Waterfall: A corner of Ban Gioc Waterfall, in the northern province of Cao Bang's Trung Khanh District, is one of the most beautiful falls in Viet Nam. — VNA/VNS Photo Anh Tuan A group of my Vietnamese friends from the US headed by Duong Quang Chan, a businessman, arrived in Ha Noi this week to start a New Year trans-Viet Nam tour and to seek out a suitable place to open a restaurant in the country. "My friends and I are excited to be back in our homeland which we left almost 30 years ago," he said. Chan went on to say that he never forgets to visit websites about Viet Nam and added, "I've witnessed a lot of changes in the country and I think that it's a good time to open a restaurant. Viet Nam's economy is reported to be recovering after last year's global crisis and more importantly, the number of foreign visitors expected to visit the country is predicted to sharply increase." Chan said his group will spend a week in Ha Noi, taking in the cultural and … [Read more...] about Viet Nam’s tourism bounces