(VOV) - Amidst the bustling city streets in Ho Chi Minh City, filled with shabbily dressed street peddlers, alongside the ancient architecture and markets with names like Ben Thanh and Binh Tay, there are always great numbers of tourists.

(VOV) -Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City), Mui Ne beach, and Ha Long bay are among three most attractive destinations for many world stars, including Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Mark Zuckerberg, So Ji Sub and Shin Min Ah.

(VOV) -The Vietnam Airlines Corporation gained total revenue of nearly VND28 trillion (US$1.32 billion) for the first half of this year, according corporation report released on July 31.

(VOV) -Ha Long Bay, located in the Northeast of Vietnam, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination in Quang Ninh province.

(VOV) -Vietnam’s national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on July 29 launched its annual promotion programme on a number of international flights, with airfare starting from just VND199,000 (US$9).

(VOV) -Vietnam welcomed nearly 564,736 foreign travellers in July, a year-on-year rise of 4.6%, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

(VOV) - Vietnam’s Son Doong cave, Mount Everest and Grand Canyon are predicted to become the most attractive destinations for tourists in the next 20 years, according to the Huffington Post. 

(VOV) -Canadian Travellers, a Canadian travel guides magazine, has chosen Mui Ne as one of the top 11 most beautiful beaches in Asia.

The Vietnamese airlines have been ordered to identify at least one reserve airport for landings, in case of bad weather.

(VOV) - Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) has announced that it will resume direct flights to HCM City as of October with four flights per week.

The Dam Sen Water Park in Ho Chi Minh City has been nominated as one of the 10 best water parks in Asia by tourism site www.tripadvisor.com.

(VOV) - Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet Air on July 24 officially launched a new air route between Hanoi and Seoul (the Republic of Korea).

(VOV) - The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on July 24 asked the Prime Minister to extend visa exemption from 15 days to 30 days for Russian visitors.

(VOV) -Central Highland province of Lam Dong and central Khanh Hoa province are effectively cooperating in attracting foreign visitors, particularly those from Russia.

(VOV) -The UK daily Telegraph has cited the Mekong river cruise from Siem Reap in Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City as one of the top five river cruises in Asia.

Vietnamese visitor arrivals to Singapore numbered 90,000 in the first quarter of 2014, representing a double-digit positive growth rate of 13%, according to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).

(VOV) -National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) on July 18 announced it has diverted four flights to Europe for safety reasons following the Malaysian plane tragedy in the Ukraine.

(VOV) - Reporters from various foreign news agencies have freshly concluded a fact-finding tour of major tourist attractions in Vietnam, and they were all impressed by the amazingly beautiful landscape and hospitality of local people. 

(VOV) - The new air route between Can Tho and Danang will facilitate tourism development and investment cooperation, said Can Tho City People’s Committee Chairman Le Hung Dung.

The central city of Da Nang on July 16 welcomed the first flight of a new direct air service from Tokyo (Japan) which is hoped to bring more Japanese tourists to the central region. 

(VOV) - Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Nam Hai in Hoi An City and Park Hyatt Saigon have been chosen as three of the best hotels and resorts in Asia by the US magazine Travel + Leisure.

(VOV) - National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has officially announced that it will launch two new routes to Singapore and Cambodia as from November 1.

(VOV) - TripAdvisor has announced the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi, for the third consecutive year in a row, is rated one of the top three most attractive tourism destinations in the capital city.

(VOV) - Rough Guides, a global leading publisher of travel guides, has chosen Vietnam one of the top 20 world’s most beautiful countries.

(VOV) - As planned, the first charter flight between the Danang and Incheon international airports will lift off on July 16, with the first Hanoi- Incheon commercial flight taking off on July 24.

(VOV) -The number of Vietnamese tourists travelling to the Republic of Korea (RoK) jumped 29.8% year-on-year reaching 57,275 in the first five months of the year.

The northern province of Lao Cai will offer a tour of Mother Goddess worshipping sites along the Red River from August 10, hoping to draw more visitors to the border locality.

(VOV) - The nation’s reputation as an attractive tourist destination continues spiraling upwards in the eyes of international tourists, and this heightened image is spilling over into positive reports by the international mass media.

(VOV) - An international marketing campaign aimed at branding the nation’s reputation as a safe, hospitable and attractive tourism destination, where guests are always welcome kicked off in Hanoi on July 9. 

(VOV) - Central Quang Nam province held a forum on July 9 seeking ways to improve the tourism sector and identify alternative marketing strategies to attract new global market segments to the province.