(VOV) -The General Department of Tourism in coordination with Vietnam Airlines will hold a ‘thank you ceremony’ at the JW Marriot Hotel in Hanoi on November 28 in appreciation of the travel agencies bringing tourists to Vietnam.

(VOV) -Low-cost carrier Vietjet has announced its flights connecting Vladivostok of Russia to several Vietnamese localities, including Hanoi, HCM City, Nha Trang, Danang, Hue, and Phu Quoc.

(VOV) - The escalating number of international tourists visiting Vietnam over recent years has motivated almost every ethnic group to set up their own homestay and this type of tourism is rapidly gaining in popularity.

The Japanese Embassy in Hanoi announced that on November 20, Japan started a simplified application procedure for single tourist visas for Vietnamese nationals as part of efforts to further promote people-to-people exchanges between the two countries. 

Vietnam expects to welcome 100,000 Indian tourist arrivals in the near future as the two countries hold huge potential to develop bilateral ties in this field, stated Nguyen Quoc Hung, deputy head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VAT).

(VOV) -National Geographic has named Vietnamese dish Bun Cha as top 10 world’s best street food.

The Mekong Delta Green Tourism Week will take place in Can Tho city on April 26-28, 2015, according to the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region.

The low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific has announced its plan to introduce a new round-trip service between Hanoi and the Thai capital of Bangkok with a flight a day as from March 29 next year.

(VOV) -Pho is quite simply, an utterly captivating dish – simple in execution yet enormously complex in flavour – says Business Insider and “One of the top 43 meals everyone should eat in their lifetime”.

(VOV) -Rough Guides, a global leading publisher of travel guides, has listed three photos of Vietnam as best world food images from the photo-sharing and selling site.

The central coastal city of Nha Trang has long been well known as a top tourist destination, thanks to its deep blue sea, untouched islands and unique gastronomy. However, now it is coffee that is attracting a new wave of visitors to this beautiful beach city. 

(VOV) - Ao Dai museum tells the story of the Vietnamese traditional long dress and its changes in the social development process.

The People’s Committee of Thanh Mien district in northern Hai Duong province held a ceremony on November 16 to receive a certificate recognising its Dao Co (Stork Island) as a national relic site.

(VOV) - Vietnam is the top destination of Spanish visitors last summer, according to Spanish Atrapalo travel agent.

(VOV) - Hoi An, with its beautifully restored houses, shops and public buildings has a reputation of being a favourite getaway of budget minded travellers, the type of cultural hub where tourists come to visit for a few days and end up staying for weeks.

(VOV) -Hue continues to grow its cruise tourism sector, with the arrival of the sixth Royal Caribbean cruise ship this year docking at Chan May port on November 15, carrying more than 1,000 visitors from the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

(VOV) -The UK's second biggest-selling daily newspaper Daily Mail has named Water Villa 5 of five-star resort Six Senses Con Dao in Ninh Van Bay as the most romantic bedroom in the world.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ( UNESCO) has re-recognised the Dong Van Karst Plateau Geo-Park in the northernmost mountainous province of Ha Giang as a member of the Global Network of National Geoparks for the 2015-2018 period.

(VOV) - The Bang Lang stork sanctuary in Thot Not district has boasted itself one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

(VOV) - Representatives from 35 Vietnam travel agents on November 12 met their Filipino partners in Manila to study the market and seek cooperative opportunities.

(VOV) -Conde Nast Traveler named the Long Bien wholesale market in Hanoi located under the famous Long Bien Bridge that was repeatedly bombed and repaired during the war with America on its list of the world top 7 street markets.

(VOV) -Royal Caribbean Cruise’ Celebrity Millennium cruise ship, carrying nearly 2,200 foreign visitors from the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, docked at Hon Gai port in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province on November 12.

(VOV) - A conference on November 8 was held jointly by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Thanh Hoa province People’s Commitee to discuss preparations for the upcoming National Tourism Year 2015 festivities.

The management board of the EU-funded Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Programme announced on November 7 that its statistics on the number of tourists who return to Vietnam had been taken out of context. 

(VOV) - A dialogue, touting Vietnam and Southeast Asia as a top holiday destination, recently attracted a large gathering in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

More than 200 representatives from travel agents and hotels in the central province of Thua Thien Hue are taking a training course on Nov. 5 and 6 on how to improve service quality for Japanese tourists. 

(VOV) -More than 200 employees working in the travel and service industry in Thua Thien-Hue province attended a training seminar on November 5-6 sponsored by the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA).

(VOV) -Vietnam has been included in the list of “top 20 Best Places To Live Overseas”, according to Business Insider, a US online newspaper based in New York City.

(VOV) -India‘s Jet Airways on November 5 officially opened direct flights connecting New Delhi and Mumbai to Ho Chi Minh City as part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Vietnam Airlines and Jet Airways on October 28.

(VOV) -National Geographic, has named Phu Quoc island one of the top 15 favoured winter travel destinations for 2014.