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Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Bow Thunyarat, a traveler from Bangkok, Thailand, never expected her trip to Việt Nam last January to start so easily. In the modern world it just took a few clicks online and a whole world of hospitality choices appeared before her eyes. She is one of the 71 per cent of the 13 million visitors to Viet Nam last year to arrange all her travel online. These are the figures released in a survey on tourists carried out by Việt Nam E-commerce Association (VECOM). But the results also reveal as most of the online booking agents are based outside of Viet Nam, local businesses need support to keep up. “We had never experienced Airbnb abroad together so we just want to try. Staying overnight with friends in one room seemed to be fun,” she told Việt Nam News. “In Sapa, as there was no Airbnb, so we chose a hotel with a beautiful mountain view through booking.com,” she said. Arriving in the nation’s … [Read more...] about Việt Nam’s online tourism to thrive

Viet Nam News By Antoine Tellier Our names are Marine and Antoine. We are a French couple, and last year, we decided to make a trip around the world over the course of 12 months. We left France on November 28th last year. Our first destination was Nepal. We stayed there one month. The second step was Việt Nam. We were very touched by the kindness of Vietnamese people we met. We want to use this article to tell you about our meetings and wonderful memories of these encounters. When we arrived in HCM City, we were really surprised by the good energy of the town and the people. It was really difficult to cross the road at the beginning, so we followed the local people. We slept five nights in a Vietnamese girl’s apartment, thanks to Couchsurfing, the website that lets you find people willing to host you for free. This girl is a Vietnamese English teacher, and she proposed the couch surfers join her for the English lesson. She’s really sensitive about the … [Read more...] about Travellers say, ’Thank you, Việt Nam!’

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Foreign arrivals to Việt Nam surpassed 6.7 million in the first five months of this year, up 27.6 per cent annually, the General Statistics Office announced on Tuesday.  In May alone, the figure topped 1.16 million, down 13.5 per cent month-on-month. The number of Asian tourists hit over five million in five months, up 33.3 per cent while those from China was up 37 per cent, South Korea (62.1 per cent), Japan (6.6 per cent), Malaysia (12.5  per cent), Thailand (9.1 per cent) and Singapore (5.4 per cent).  Meanwhile, the number of European visitors rose by 11.8 per cent year-on-year, including those from Russia (up 9.2 per cent), France (13.1 per cent), the UK (9.6 per cent), Germany (8.5 per cent) and Italy (18.3 per cent). Visitors from America and Oceania were up 13.8 per cent and 12.1 per cent, respectively.  Major tourist localities saw a surge in tourist arrivals. The central city of Đà Nẵng … [Read more...] about Foreign arrivals to Việt Nam top 6.7m in five months