National airline carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced it will continue its special airfare scheme till December 31, 2009.
Flights will continue to be aviailable via travel firms that signed up to a tourism demand stimulus programme.
This is the second extension of the special airfare programme with airfares set at up to 50 percent of normal prices.
The airfare reductions have been applied to flights to HCM City – Hue or Da Nang or HCM City – Vinh or Hai Phong or Hanoi.
Sheraton Ha Noi Hotel has been named one of the Top 10 Best Conference Hotels for Asia in The Best in Travel Poll 2009, the fourth consecutive year the hotel has achieved this status.
The Best in Travel Poll 2009 was voted on by international readers of SmartTravelAsia.com, a regional online travel magazine, from May through July of this year.
Sheraton has also received the World Travel Award as Viet Nam’s Leading Business Hotel for two years running in 2007-08 and has been nominated for the honour in 2009.
The city’s International Travel Expo 2009 is set to sail for three days from October 1, with the organizers September 16 announcing some of its pre-show activities.
At the official launch at its press conference on September 16, the Tourism Alliance Awards (TAA) 2009 were introduced, which will award outstanding tourism services in three Southeast Asian countries.
TAA 2009 was designed to celebrate and recognize the brightest tourism stars in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, as the tourism industry is playing an increasingly important role in those economies.
Representatives of some 60 domestic tour operators are inspecting destinations in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand for a familiarization trip arranged by Vitours Company Limited and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in preparation for new overland tours.
Cao Tri Dung, director of Vitours Company Limited, told the Daily on the phone on Monday that the FAM trip would take in tourist sites in the Central Highlands and other central parts of Vietnam, southern Laos and northeastern Thailand.
Locals to enjoy cheap luxury stays
Six of HCM City’s
12 five-star hotels will for the first time offer a discount of 50 per cent for local guests between September 1 to October 31, under the promotion “One Day to Stay in 5-Star Hotels”.
La Quoc Khanh, deputy director of HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said: “The travel demand of Vietnamese people is increasing. We want to make the people familiar with luxury facilities and woo them to stay there.”
Agencies pick up visa fees
Twenty travel agencies across the country are exempting visa fees for international tourists who buy package tours under the Impressive Viet Nam promotion programme.
Twenty travel agencies across the country are exempting visa fees for international tourists who buy package tours under the Impressive Viet Nam promotion programme. Vu The Binh, head of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism, said the country was receiving five to six foreign travellers entering Viet Nam without paying for a visa a day. Today, the country will receive a group of 103 tourists from Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland and Portugal from Macau. Binh said Saigontourist and Travel Service Co and Indochina Services are the leaders in exempting visa fees.