Unlike most streets in Hanoi, the birds in Hoang Hoa Tham Street aren’t on skewers. The tree-lined street is alive with the sounds of songs as birds of all shapes and sizes sit in cages hanging from shop fronts.

The World Food Festival 2010 will take place in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau from July 21-25 with the expected participation of representatives of 63 localities nationwide and more than 80 countries and territories, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Accor, the largest international hotel operator in Viet Nam, announced yesterday, March 10, its strategic expansion plans including additional hotels within the Novotel, Mercure hotel brand, launching of the ibis brand and MGallery label.

An Ninh Thu Do (Capital Security) newspaper talked with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh, about tourism prospects for this year.

I told a man in nearby Sin Ho Township that not long ago a British travel company (Gecko Travel) rated this place as one of the top five trekking destinations in Southeast Asia. He looked doubtful.

The experimental tour by electric cars around Hoan Kiem Lake and the Old Quarter was not launched in the first quarter of 2010 as scheduled because the imported electric cars are not yet licensed to run.

Tourism and airline representatives from HCMC and China’s Sichuan met on Monday at the Kim Do hotel in HCMC to discuss opening an air route that would link the two cities to promote tourism between both destinations.

The Vietnam National Tourism Administration said it will seek approval from the government to have foreign visitors exempted from visa fees later this year to boost the country’s tourism.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved regulations for Phu Quoc Island and Nam An Thoi islets in Kien Giang to become tourist venues.

Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has announced it will double the number of flights between Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City and Narita International Airport in Tokyo, to 14 flights a week beginning March 28.

A project team from Georgetown University in the United States has suggested HCMC set up a convention and visitors bureau (CVB) to drive the city's tourism development, particularly for the MICE segment.

The success of the 2009 ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) helped raise Vietnam’s tourism status in the region and offered opportunities for the country to promote its tourism potential abroad.

Bai Dai (Long Beach) in central Khanh Hoa Province is gaining much appreciation and admiration from tourists thanks to its pristine beauty and white sands.

Major retail and hospitality campaigns are among some of the initiatives designed by the tourism industry to meet ambitious targets this year, according to Vu The Binh from the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism's Travel Department.

Under the decision of Permanent Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh Hung, the Thang Long Royal Citadel vestige complex will receive visitors on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long–Hanoi.