Vietnam Travel News

The Nam Dan ancient stone ground in Nam Dan commune, Xin Man district, northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, has been recognised as a national relic. This is the second ancient stone ground (after Sapa) discovered in Vietnam and registered as a national relic.

Three Vietnamese museums have been chosen to display artifacts on a website established by Asemus, a network of museums in Asia and Europe .

Da lat - This is the sole motorbike taxi firm in Vietnam that has its own website and only serves foreigners.

An exhibition of 50 works by painter Nguyen Thi Hien opened in Madrid in February. Entitled Giao Cam (Emotional Communion), the exhibition was the first-ever show in the city by a Vietnamese painter. Hien has just come back from Spain, and she chats with VNS about her exhibition.

The 2009 ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF 2009) and ASEAN Tourism Ministers' Meeting will take place in Hanoi from January 5-12, 2009.

This is the total budget of the Vietnam tourist human resource development project sponsored by European Union, of which European Union supports 10.8 million and the counterpart capital of Vietnam is 1.2 million to obtain such set targets as improving human resource quality and standard in the tourist industry, contributing to assisting the Government and businesses in maintaining quantity and quality of the tourist human resources after the project has been completed.

Hcm CITY— French artist Nicolas Cornet began snapping shots of Viet nam and its people in 1988 when he first visited the country.

Vietnam Amateur Senior Championship 2008 will be held in Chi Linh Star Golf Course, Hai Duong on April 18-19, said the Vietnam Golf Association on April 10. This is the first golf championship in Vietnam, opening the way for other planned championships for the upcoming time.

Phong Nha-Ke Bang and Fansipan Mountain have been removed from the nomination list in the last few days because Vietnam didn’t register them with the organiser, website new7wonders.com.

Vietnam’s tourism companies should make more advertising and marketing activities in seaside tourism to the French market, said the president of Interface Tourism to domestic travel agents and tour operators.