Hanoi gets ready for APEC meetings

Tourism executives in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi have confirmed the logistic preparations underway for meetings within the framework of the APEC Leaders' Meeting 2006, scheduled for later this year.

The city, which will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting in November, has selected 25 hotels with almost 4,300 rooms to serve the high-ranking delegations, journalists and businesses who are expected to attend the meeting and its sideline events.

All these hotels are well furnished, including satellite televisions, Internet services, swimming pools, tennis courts and shopping areas.

The municipal tourism administration has also picked over 100 other hotels as substitutes, of which many bear Vietnamese names such as the Thang Loi Hotel with almost 4,000 standard rooms, to serve the meetings.

The agency will also hold training courses for some 2,000 hotel staff to improve their working skills to international standards.

To ensure food hygiene and safety, Hanoi has intensified examinations over the hotel restaurants selected to serve the meetings as well as street-side restaurants and food shops throughout the city. The city also picked almost 400 restaurants specialising in European, French, Chinese and Thai cuisines as well as Vietnamese dish specialties to serve food at the APEC meetings.

The Hanoi tourism administration said it has prepared a series of special tours for tourists inside and outside the city. Only the leading travel agents will be allowed to sell tour tickets at the selected hotels, the agency said.

VNA/VOVNews

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