Tour boat operators on Vietnam’s heritage-listed Ha Long Bay are outraged at a move by local authorities to ban about 25 percent of vessels from working the waters, a move that will cost thousands of jobs. Quang Ninh authorities to tighten grips on wooden…
Free wifi service will be available for tourists during Huong Pagoda Festival, which is scheduled to open on February 13. The festival, the longest-such event in the country, is held annually from the sixth day of the first lunar month throughout the third lunar…
People will gather together to prepare for Tet and share feelings when New Year comes to the holy space of So Village’s Communal House in Quoc Oai, a suburban district of Ha Noi. An atmosphere of traditional Lunar New Year will be enjoyed with…
Students from schools in Ha Noi will learn about the traditional new year customs and rituals during a programme called Discovering Tet held on January 29 at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology. They will explore Tet through a number of activities such as…
Domestic airlines have launched promotional ticket fares and increased the number of flights to serve the increasing demand on the occasion of the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Director of Nam Phuong Travel Phan Manh Tung said the volume of domestic airline tickets was…
Director of the Hoang Lien National Park, located in Lai Chau and Lao Cai provinces, has asked travel agencies to cancel mountaineering tours, including the tour to Fansipan – the roof of Indochina – from January 23 through 27 because of bad weather. According…
Airlines have offered a number of promotional programmes as well as increasing more flights in order to serve demand on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. According to Phan Manh Tung, Director of the Nam Phuong Travel Service Company, the supply…
Malaysian low-cost airline – AirAsia has conducted a direct flight between Malaysia’s Penang city and Viet Nam’s HCM City. The direct air route has four weekly flights on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. It departs from HCM City at 1.35 pm (local time) and…
A special event about Kitchen God celebration is set to take place at the Ha Noi Club on January 31. The Kitchen God or Ong Tao ritual signals the start of preparations for Tết. This celebration marks the day when the three kitchen gods,…
Annually the Sofitel Legend Metropole Ha Noi holds a ‘rural market’ showcasing traditional foods and culture of Viet Nam to international travellers on the occasion of the Tet Lunar New Year – and this year is no exception. On January 29-31 the market will…
