Business Traveller, the UK’s leading travel magazine for business and affluent travellers, has recently named Phu Quoc among the world’s most trending and “hottest” destinations, predicting a dramatic transformation for the Vietnamese island in the years ahead.

Vietnam’s new visa policy, applicable from August 15, will help the country lure more business travellers from Japan in September, said the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Chief Representative in Ho Chi Minh City Nobuyuki Matsumoto.

A Vietnam-Australia trade and tourism promotion conference was held by Vietnam Airlines, Thien Minh Group and Vinpearl JSC in Sydney on April 19, drawing a large number of Australian businesses and travel firms from different Australian localities.

Ho Chi Minh City expects to fully exploit bleisure travel - a novel type of tourism combining business travel with leisure time.

Breaking Travel News, a world leading online tourism information website, has run a story highlighting major tourist destinations of Vietnam that have been honoured with the World Travel Awards recently.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has great potential for developing bleisure travel – a type of tourism combining business travel with leisure time, according to a seminar held on September 7.