(VOV) - Vietnam Airlines made a February 28 announcement that they are upgrading their aircraft on the Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)-Yangon (Myanmar) route to meet increasing travel demand between the two cities.

The Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has planned to promote the capital city as a tourist destination in the foreign media.

Hanoi expects to serve 15.5 million tourists, including 2.25 million foreigners, in 2013, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Mai Tien Dung said on February 26. 

(VOV) - The Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) will offer Vietnamese tourists 200 free tickets to watch the 2013 Formula 1 (F1) Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix, held at the Sepang International Circuit from March 22–24. 

Ha Long Bay of Vietnam has been included in the list of “100 trips you must take in your lifetime” recently released by the US magazine Business Insider. 

Vietnam is ranked seventh among the ten leading long-haul destinations selected by British tourists, according to the website easyvoyage.co.uk of the famous travel agency Hayes & Jarvis. 

Once established, the national trademark “the World’s Kitchen” will draw people from all the five continents to explore Vietnam’s culture through local cuisine.

(VOV) -Vietnam’s leading low-cost carrier VietJet Air has officially opened a new route from Ho Chi Minh City to Thailand’s Bangkok capital, and is expected to launch more international flights this year.

(VOV) -National carrier Vietnam Airlines carried nearly 1.1 million passengers in 25 peak days over the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival from January 25-February 18, a 5.4 percent increase over the same period last year.

(VOV) -An international Seven Seas Voyager cruise ship carrying 600 passengers docked at Chan May port in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on February 20.

(VOV) -Commercial airline Air Mekong will temporarily stop its operations from March 1 to restructure its fleet and personnel.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s tourism sector plans to earn US$10-11 billion from 7-7.5 million international visitors and 36-37 million domestic tourists by 2015 and US$18-19 billion from 10-10.5 million foreign visitors and 47-48 million domestic tourists by 2020.

(VOV) - This year’s nine-day Lunar New Year holiday has helped drive large numbers of local and foreign visitors to tourist destinations across the country, raising hopes of a successful year for the tourism industry.

(VOV) - Hanoi’s Thang Long Royal Citadel welcomed nearly 20,000 visitors - mostly foreign tourists - in the first six days of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

Tens of thousands of monks, nuns, Buddhists and tourists from Vietnam and abroad have flocked to pagodas and Spring festivals at the beginning of the Year of the Snake, wishing for peace, good weather, happiness and prosperity.

(VOV) - Vietnam has overtaken Thailand in travel agency Hayes & Jarvis’ rankings of the ten most popular destinations for UK tourists.

(VOV) -Over 1,500 international travelers have arrived in the central city of Danang over the first five days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

(VOV) - Large numbers of foreign holiday-makers have arrived in Vietnam during the first days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

(VOV) - The former imperial city of Hue has welcomed almost 30,000 arrivals over the first three days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

(VOV) -The number of travelers touring the beautiful historic relic sites of central provinces and cities has increased remarkably during the first days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.

(VOV) - VietJetAir will officially inaugurate its Ho Chi Minh City-Bangkok air route on February 10. 

(VOV) - The number of tourists staying in Danang for Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrations is estimated at 143,199, up 10.4 percent against last year. 

(VOV) - Thua Thien Hue’s provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Director Phan Tien Dung has announced the February 4 signing of a cooperative agreement linking the province with the Republic of Korea’s tourism market.

(VOV) - Travel operators are reporting the upcoming Tet holidays have attracted many customers interested in package tours, amounting to a 35 percent increase over last year.

Con Dao, an island district in the southern province of Ba Ria–Vung Tau, has been included in Lonely Planet's travel magazine as one of the top nine mysterious islands in the world.

(VOV) - The ancient city of Hoi An has been voted as one of the most favourite in the world.

(VOV) - The UK five-star cruise ship Minerva carrying 500 tourists and a crew of 200, docked at Quy Nhon port in the southern province of Binh Dinh on January 31.

(VOV) -A ceremony was held in Moscow on January 28 to announce the official opening of a direct flight route between Moscow and Nha Trang.

(VOV) -Hotel service quality in Hanoi has ranked second only behind the German city of Dresden in a recent survey conducted by the prestigious website Trivago.

(VOV) -Vietnamese landscape and traditional dishes will take centre stage in a documentary shot by a film crew from Japan’s BS12 channel.