Summer schedule approved for airlines
Vietnam Travel in BriefThe Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam approved last week the 2009 summer schedule for the 44 international airlines operating flying into Viet Nam.
Most of the carriers fly to the country’s largest international airports, Noi Bai in Ha Noi and Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City.
CAAV said the two latest carriers to operate flights to Tan Son Nhat are the US-based Northwest Airlines and Australia’s Qantas Freight who will begin to fly daily in June.
Mekong Delta provinces would focus on developing a sustainable tourism industry by offering diverse and quality products, the Mekong Tourism Association said.
Tourists visit the Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City.It encouraged travel companies to set up tours that involve the community, especially local residents, in tourism activities, generating incomes for them, and avoid overlapping products or unhealthy competition with one another, it said.
The low-cost airline Jetstar Pacific on May 26 announced it would stop offering Hanoi-Can Tho flights as of June 1.
Jetstar Pacific cancels Hanoi-Can Tho flightsThe airline said it will close this air route to focus on more lucrative routes, for example Hanoi-Da Nang, Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City-Da Nang. The firm will add one more flight per week on these routes.
Other routes, Ho Chi Minh City to Hue, Vinh and Hai Phong and Hanoi-Nha Trang, will still have one flight per day.
Halong Bay was declared one of the 25 most wonderful seascapes in the world on the website of NewOpenWorld on May 25.
Halong Bay in VietnamThe bay joins Cox’s Bazaar beach of Bangladesh, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Entering the second phase of the NewOpenWorld’s poll of the seven new world natural wonders are 261 sites. They are divided into seven groups: Group A for extensive natural landscapes; Group B for islands; Group C for mountains and volcanoes; Group D for caves, stone mountains and valleys; Group E for forests, national parks, natural reserves; Group F for lakes, rivers, waterfalls; Group G for sea landscapes and beaches.
Destination resorts in Vietnam have launched promotion campaigns, hoping to fill rooms in the face of the economic downturn, but Hanoi hotels cling to high rates.
hotels in Hanoi VietnamThe Furama Resort in Da Nang City has offered a package rate at $148 per guest for a two night stay, pickup and return to the airport, included breakfast and lunch, and coach excursions to Hoi An ancient town and the Ngu Hanh Son mountains.
The luxurious Nam Hai resort has introduced summer packages for family members which combine visits to past and present cultural attractions in Central Vietnam with sport and leisure activities.
attractions in central VietnamThe day begins in the early morning with rowing a basket fishing boat just off shore, either to fish or just for the experience of being on the water and to learn how to steer the boat forward.
