The Con Dao Museum has been inaugurated in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, featuring 2,000 images, artifacts and documents on the history of Con Dao district. 

Xuan Son National Park in the northern midland province of Phu Tho, which boasts diverse ecosystems, untouched natural beauty and original cultural identities of ethnic people, is receiving investment to make it a tourist hotspot and help drive the locality’s socio-economic growth. 

Vietnam and Bulgaria should promote tourism investment and cooperation towards signing a new cooperation plan to replace their 2006 cooperation agreement in the field.

(VOV) -The national flag carrier of Vietnam (Vietnam Airlines) will launch a ticket sales programme called “Welcoming International Travel Expo 2013” with preferential prices.

Vietnam has set the goal of developing six sea-based tourism destinations up to international standard by 2020 under a project recently adopted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has welcomed 1.8 million tourists so far this year with revenue increasing 14% from 2012 to VND1.65 trillion (US$78.8 million). 

(VOV) - Vo Trong Nghia Architects’ Dai Lai Conference Hall designs were included in the winners of the 2013 International Architecture Awards.

(VOV) - The low-cost carrier VietJetAir announced in Ho Chi Minh City on August 27 that it will open four new air routes from now until the end of this year.

(VOV) - HCM City will host a festival at Van Thanh tourist resort on September 10-12, targeted at the city’s foreign communities, diplomatic corps, and expatriate students. 

(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) - Danang, despite recent successes, is still pondering the best strategies for enticing tourists in greater numbers to visit the city and its surrounds.

A two-day cycling trip in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh is to take place this weekend to raise awareness of responsible tourism.

More than 400 stalls will be set up to present tourism programmes, culinary culture and products of traditional craft villages of Hanoi and Red River Delta provinces during a festival in the capital city from October 9–12. 

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

A wide range of activities will be organised to mark the 110th anniversary of the popular resort town of Sapa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on November 1-2. 

(VOV) - Hanoi hosted a conference on August 13 discussing an ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) for Tourism Professionals.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) has asked five Central Highlands localities to collect and inventory both tangible and intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minority groups for next year’s tourism year. 

(VOV) - Nghe An province and the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam on August 9 examined the possibility of opening a new air route servicing flights between Vietnam’s Vinh city and Laos’ Vientiane capital.

(VOV) - Tourists are very excited to try unique means of transport, like three-wheeler, horse-drawn carriage, elephant ride or dug-out canoe services at tourism sites in Vietnam.

(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).

A stone church and the Muong Hoa valley in Sapa tourist town, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, have been submitted to the Vietnam Record Organisation (VietKing) to seek recognition as national records. 

(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.

Central Danang city has welcomed 78,200 Chinese air travellers in the first half of this year. 

Hanoi launched a tourist support division on August 1 to solve as quickly as possible incidents reported by tourists, and provide them with necessary information about the capital city. 

(VOV) - The central city of Danang has scheduled its 2013 tourism stimulus programme for between September 1 and December 31.

Vietnam’s domestic tourists reached 24 million in the first half of this year, up by 12 percent against the same period last year, and 73.8 percent of this year’s target. 

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

(VOV) -At the first Hue Festival in 2000, many visitors were attracted by a special tour to a vegetable growing village created by French people.

Ho Chi Minh City reports an estimated 250,000 international tourists in July, a year-on-year increase of nine percent. 

The TripAdvisor.com tourism website has ranked the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology as excellent.