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Donning yellow “Bali” hats featuring a surfer as the last letter, Chinese tourists walked along the Indonesian backpacker hotspot’s pristine blue waters, forgetting three years of Covid-19 misery. Exploring “turtle island”, taking day trips to neighboring Lombok and hitting Bali’s famed beaches, the world’s biggest-spending tourists were back after the …

Australian travel site Traveller has included Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to unique floating markets, among the 25 best places to go in 2023. “Regardless of your choice, this is one of the world’s great regions for exploration, brimming with culture that’s unique even from the rest of Vietnam,” the magazine …

The number of foreign visitors jumped by 23.2% in January to over 871,000, heralding a recovery for the tourism industry, which targets eight million arrivals this year. It was 42% down from January 2019, the year before the onset of Covid. South Korea continued to be Vietnam’s biggest feeder market …

The wedding of an Indian couple has been going on in the central city of Da Nang for five days with more than 350 guests served by a team of 100 staff and chefs from India. Gaurav Palrecha and his bride Tuisha Seksaria, who come from Indian billionaire families, arrived …

Tourism seems to be recovering with popular destinations across Vietnam being overrun by holiday crowds during the week-long Tet break that ended Thursday. The northern province of Ninh Binh, home to UNESCO heritage site Trang An Landscape Complex, welcomed 330,000 tourists between January 20 and 26, 25 times higher than …

Hanoi ranks 17th in a global list of 25 most popular holiday destinations for 2023 as voted by readers of U.S. travel site Tripadvisor. Bali in Indonesia was second in the annual Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best Awards list while Thai tourism attraction Phuket ranked 16th. Dubai topped the …

Singapore’s new five-year visa program officially came into effect this month as the city state seeks to woo wealthy foreigners and bolster post-pandemic economic recovery. The new visa program aims at those earning at least 30,000 Singapore dollars ($22,300) per month in fields such as finance, technology, academia, sports and …

Anan Saigon in HCMC’s District 1 has been voted Asia’s best restaurant for the first time by industry experts and globetrotters and conferred the World Culinary Award. Located inside an old market on Ton That Dam Street near Bitexco Financial Tower, Anan specializes in street food-inspired dishes created by its …

Coming to Sa Pa to experience a resort-style getaway is a mistake. The signature characteristics of this land are its natural beauty and culture. In my opinion, if things like sloppy management, streets full of trash, muddy roads and clingy vendors can be improved, then great. But even if they …

Ha Giang Province on the northern border with China ranks 25th in New York Times’s list of 52 best places to travel in 2023. “The several-day loop by motorbike through the Ha Giang highlands in northern Vietnam is not for the timid,” the U.S. newspaper said. It takes around six …