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The government wants royal relics to be preserved and tourism facilities upgraded to turn Hue into a “city of festivals and Asia’s cultural and tourist hub” by 2045. Vietnam’s former imperial capital is set to become a centrally managed city in 2025 alongside Hanoi, HCMC, Hai Phong, Da Nang, and …

Two locals from the northern highlands’ Ha Giang Province take tour guide Giap Van Hai down a sheer and rugged cliff to the bottom of a 80-meter-deep sinkhole.     Exploring 80-meter sinkhole in rocky plateau of Vietnam Alluring sinkhole in middle of Dong Van Rock Plateau

Ho Chi Minh City’s five-star hotel Reverie Saigon has won the award for “best lobby” at this year’s “The best of the best: World’s top hotels” awards. The awards given by Australian travel site Traveller was based on votes by tourism experts who “have spent thousands of nights inside hotel …

Vietnamese travel firms say outbound tours to Japan and South Korea are selling like hot cakes after both nations eased their border restrictions. Hoang Thuy Linh, deputy director of marketing and communications at HCMC tour operator Saigontourist, said tours to Japan and South Korea were already fully booked until this …

Microsoft’s web portal MSN has listed Son Doong cave in the central province of Quang Binh among 15 “stunning places on Earth that look like they’re from another planet.” The cave is 656 feet (200 m) high and nearly 500 feet (150 m) wide and the average passage size is …

Authorities in Da Lat resort town in the Central Highlands are trialing paragliding over Xuan Huong Lake before giving it formal approval. Hanoi company Fly High Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City Paragliding Federation, which offer paragliding tours, are involved in the trials until early November, according to the provincial …

Nha Trang, a popular beach resort town in central Vietnam, plans to welcome tourists from Kazakhstan and Russia on tour packages from late this month to boost its year-end tourism. Bui Quoc Dai, deputy director of tour operator Anex Vietnam, said his company will cooperate with Vietjet Air to organize …

Cao Ky Nhan has won gold at the Epson International Pano Awards for his shot of golden yellow rice fields flanking a river in Cao Bang Province. The photo, taken in September 2019, captures the golden yellow color of rice fields along the Quay Son River as it snakes through …

Though Vietnam and Laos both boast magnificent scenery, tourism development along their shared border does not match their true potential, tourism insiders say. With a 2,300-kilometer-long borderline, Vietnam and Laos have 10 pairs of international border gates and a series of nearby nature reserves, national forests and cave systems with …

The international air route connecting Delhi and Vietnam was the second most searched by Indians for Dussehra holiday travel this week after Bengaluru-Dubai, data shows. Other most searched international routes were New Delhi-London, Chennai-Singapore, Mumbai-Dubai, Mumbai-Male and New Delhi-Bali, Financial Express reported citing data from India-based travel platform ixigo that …