Archive for the ‘Vietnam’ Category

Vietnam's WTO membership may drive locals out of tourism business

By Yusof Sulaiman l eTN Asia Vietnam's membership into the World Trade Organization (WTO) beginning this month has raised fears the local tourism industry will lose customers and staff to the more savvy foreign agencies that are expected to provide stiff competition. 

January 3, 2007   Posted in: Vietnam

Tourists take shelter from typhoon Durian

By Y. Sulaiman/ eTN Asia As Typhoon Durian continues on its way through the Mekong Delta on Tuesday, Vietnam reported about 48 deaths and 120,000 homes have been destroyed.

December 7, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Landscapes and infrastructure are fine what about the beauty of people in Vietnam?

By Satish Gupta| eTN Asia As Vietnam makes the transition from a mostly agrarian to industrial and services-based economy, the role of people in building tourism is being openly acknowledged.

December 5, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Kamu Lodge package celebrates new, direct flights to Luang Prabang

LUANG PRABANG, Laos (November, 2006) — Hinging on the October onset of direct flights into Luang Prabang from both Bangkok and Hanoi, Kamu Lodge  has announced a commemorative Flights Connection Promotional Package for the remainder of 2006.

November 17, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Vietnam gets support from Japan to boost its tourism

By Satish Gupta | eTN Asia Following the formation of the Vietnamese – Japanese Tourism Cooperation Committee, responsible for promoting the cooperation between the two countries in the field of tourism, last year, the two nations are working upon plans to provide fillip to tourism industry in Vietnam.

October 25, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Vietnam asks: Ecotourism or nature holidays?

By Yusof Sulaiman l eTN Asia Vietnamese tour operators are finding that ecotourists want to be educated more than entertained when offered ecotourism package tours. “Tour companies have yet to clearly understand the true meaning and criteria of ecotourism as a tourism product,” said Pham Trung Luong, deputy director of Vietnam’s Institute for Tourism Development, [...]

October 4, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Vietnam welcomes 2.7 million foreign tourists

By Vietnam News Agency Vietnam welcomed 2.7 million foreign tourists in the first nine months of the year, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 4.6 percent, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The Asia-Pacific Tourism Association has predicted that Vietnam would see about 3.7 million international visitors this year, accounting for 5.8 percent of [...]

October 2, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Vietnam tourism targets US visitors

By Yusof Sulaiman l eTN Asia Three decades after the war in Vietnam, the country is looking forward to welcoming back its war refugees and US war veterans to bolster its booming tourism industry. Official statistics show, as Vietnam shifts to a market economy, tourism is booming, contributing an average of 7 percent yearly to the [...]

September 15, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Vietnam attracts 2.4m tourists in the first eight months

By Satish Gupta l eTN Asia China, South Korea, the US, Japan and Australia proved to be the major source markets for Vietnam in the first eight months of this year, the latest figures from the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) revealed. Overall, Vietnam had registered nearly 3.5 million international arrivals and 16 million [...]

August 31, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam

Mekong Delta nations link-up to draw tourists

By Y. Sulaiman l eTN Asia The three Mekong Delta countries, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, will jointly organize International Tourism Expo-Ho Chi Minh City (ITE-HCMC) to be held in October 2007. Through this venture, Tourism Department of HCMC, the Tourism Ministry of Cambodia and Lao National Administration of Tourism will focus on selling the Mekong [...]

August 8, 2006   Posted in: Vietnam