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New-generation carrier Vietjet Air on October 30 launched two new air routes between Hanoi and Taipei city of Chinese Taiwan and between Hanoi and Hue city of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Vietnam aims to attract 1 million tourists from Japan by 2019, officials said at a tourism cooperation forum held in Yokohama city on October 28.

Foreign arrivals to Vietnam reached 812,017 in October, bringing the total foreign travelers in the first ten months to 8,077,397 up 25.4% against last year’s corresponding period

American tourism magazine Conde Nast Traveler has announced the winner of its 2016 Reader’s Choice Awards, and the InterContinental Da Nang Sun Peninsula Resort was named the best resort in the Asia.

A bamboo building inside Muong Museum, 80 kilometres west of Hanoi, has just been awarded a silver prize in the Cultural Architecture category by the organisers of the American Architecture Prize 2016.

A new travel check list by the New York Times has listed Vietnam among 20 places you should visit in your 20s, an age when people are eager to explore the world but do not have a lot of money or time off from work.

Hanh Thien, a 600 years old village in Nam Dinh, is famous for having a lot of successful laureates.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) will cooperate to launch campaigns to attract visitors

Since the start of 2016, the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre (HMCC) has received almost two million visitors, including 1.43 million foreigners, an increase of 36.5% year-on-year.

The newly-established Lunar Rooftop Bar & Grill on level 4 of Nha Trang Center in the coastal city of Nha Trang has special deals on Vietnam Women’s Day (Oct. 20) and Halloween (Oct. 31).

The horse meat, called 'thang co', is a traditional dish of the Mong ethnic group in the mountainous north -western region.