Tourism parks and entertainment centres in Ho Chi Minh City have made significant investments to attract visitors during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which begins on January 31. 

The US-based food website Daily Meal continues its culinary tour of the world with its first-ever roster of the 101 Best Restaurants in Asia, which honours five Vietnamese restaurants.

(VOV) - The southern island district of Con Dao received 19,000 foreign visitors in 2013, representing a year-on-year increase of 49% and making up 20% of the total number of visitors to the locality known as Poulo Condor. 

Most travellers to Vietnam are attracted wonderful natural beauty, from the green rice fields in the north to the fascinating bustle of the Mekong Delta in the south.

The Hue Relic Conservation Centre in collaboration with the local tourism and hotel associations will launch a tourism promotion week from December 24-30, to lure more tourists during the festival season at the end of the year.

(VOV) - Hanoi has welcomed more than 2.58 million foreign visitors by far this year, up 12.2% compared to last year’s figure.

(VOV) - Mexican daily El Financiero recently ran an article describing Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, as an ideal destination for visitors to enjoy peaceful sailing and admire beautiful karst scenery and emerald waters.

Established in Hanoi in 1997, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has served as a research centre and a public museum with a mission to collect, document, preserve and exhibit the cultural heritage of Vietnam ’s 54 ethnic groups.

Da Lat city is on its last- minute preparation work to celebrate a long-awaited tourism week which is scheduled from December 27 to 31. 

Hoi An ancient town in the central province of Quang Nam has won the 2013 Asian Townscape Awards given by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

(VOV) - The central province of Thua Thien Hue has welcomed 2.12 million visitors including 784,000 foreigners with a turnover of VND2.026 billion over the past ten months.

(VOV)- It still has its primary features preserved by ethnic minority people living in mountain areas. 

(VOV) -Two famous tourist attractions in Sapa district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai have been listed in Vietnam Records Book, according to the Lao Cai provincial Department for Culture, Sports and Tourism.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s ancient town of Hoi An has been voted as the second most favourite tourist destination in Asia after Japan’s Kyoto.

(VOV) - Russia’s Nordwind Airlines will open a direct Nizhny Novgorod - Cam Ranh Bay route as of October 25, according to the Voice of Russia.

Famous for its numerous islands rising from the emerald water, caves with amazing stalactites and unique animal life, Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh has been listed among the world’s top 10 most impressive coastlines by Huffington Post Magazine. 

(VOV) - Haiphong city leaders held a meeting with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on September 28 to consider Haiphong’s dossier seeking a UNESCO title for its Cat Ba islands. 

(VOV) - Phan Thiet-Mui Ne in the southern province of Binh Thuan has become one of Vietnam’s most attractive tourist destinations, proving particularly popular with Russian visitors in recent years.

(VOV) - Hanoi and HCM City are among the most attractive Southeast Asian cities and have become ideal destinations for young people from the UK.

Foreign arrivals to Ho Chi Minh City rose above 2.8 million in the first nine months of the year, up 3 percent from the same period in 2012.

(VOV) - Vietnam received more than 677,000 foreign arrivals in the early days of August, up 22% against the same month last year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

(VOV) - The Vietnam Economic Times has announced its 14th Guide Awards will be held at Vinpearl Luxury Da Nang on August 22.

(VOV) - The number of international tourists in July was estimated at 658,000, up 16% over the previous month and 28.5% against the same month last year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

(VOV) - Twenty-one of Thua Thien-Hue province’s tourism companies, resorts, and hotels have joined a tourism stimulus initiative running from now until the end of 2013.

(VOV) - The popular website TripAdvisor.com tourism has ranked Vietnam’s War Remnants Museum the fifth best Asian tourism attraction in 2013.

(VOV) - The number of Russian tourists to the south central province of Khanh Hoa reached 70,000 in the first half of this year, making up 45.5% of the total Russian arrivals in Vietnam.

(VOV) - Da Vien Islet, formed by silt deposits from the Huong (Perfume) River, covers more than 100,000sq.m (890m in length, and 185m in width).

A long-term plan has been devised to conserve biodiversity in the mangrove swamp ecosystem. 

Quang Binh plans to launch experimental adventure tours of Son Doong Cave, which is considered the largest in the world, in early August this year. 

(VOV) - The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines will officially open two international air routes from Danang to Seoul (the Republic of Korea) and Siem Riep (Cambodia) as of July 1, 2013.