Pho Hanoi, now a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, will be the centerpiece of a year-end festival celebrating its timeless inheritance and cultural significance.

The newly established food street in the inner district of Ba Dinh brings fascinating cultural, tourist, and culinary experiences to travelers at home and abroad.

To make Quoc Oai District a magnet for visitors, the local government planned to improve service quality and work with travel agencies to include its destinations in tour itineraries.

Officials from Vietnam’s northern highlands have ordered travel firms to suspend all tours to the country’s highest peak Fansipan as a heavy cold spell starting freezing the area.

During Tet, apricot blossoms are indispensable for Vietnamese families in the southern region as peach blossoms are in the northern region.

La Siesta Hotel in Hanoi has been listed among top 10 world`s best hotels by TripAdvisor – the world’s largest tourism website.

Nestled in a lush pine forest, the 1.2 km long clay arts installation is a true architectural masterpiece that will delight curious tourists. The clay tunnel is the newest tourist attraction in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province.

More than 100 domestic and foreign travel agents are expected to attend the first ever MICE (business) tourism expo set for June 24-26 at the at the Tien Son Sports Centre in central Danang city, officials have announced.

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh will keep the entrance fee unchanged until the end of next year to attract more visitors.

A programme on tourism promotion of the central city of Danang was launched in Hanoi on January 16.

In 2015, Vietnam welcomed about 7.94 million foreign tourists, up 0.9% compared with 2014, while the number of international visitors to Hanoi reached nearly 3.3 million arrivals, up 8% againt a year ago.

Da Lat city in the central highlands province of Lam Dong is called with different names due to its romantic beauty such as “Little Paris”, “City of Pine Forests”, “Land of Mist”... Da Lat’s flowers, lakes and waterfalls attract tourists near and far.

Vietnam hopes to welcome 8.5 million foreign visitors and 60 million domestic travellers in 2016, earning a total of 370 trillion VND (16.8 billion USD) in revenue, heard a conference in Hanoi on January 15.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism held a conference on January 15 to review performances of the sector in 2015 and deploy tasks in 2016.

In 2016, Hanoi targets to welcome nearly 21.2 million tourists, an increase of 6.95% compared to 2015. This target is set by Hanoi People`s Committee in the plan to implement its tourism development this year. Hanoi plans to receive nearly 21.2 million tourists in 2016, up 6.95% againt last year.

The prestigious New York Times recently named Da Lat- a romantic town with kaleidoscopic patch works of flower in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong as one of the world’s top 52 places to visit in 2016.

The Korean Tourism Organisation (KTO) will have programmes to support the country`s foreign tourists on bonus travel tours.

The northern province of Quang Ninh will begin trans-border self-drive tours between its city of Mong Cai and bordering Dongxing city in China within one year.

Phu Quoc Island has been named among the Top 10 most stunning Asian islands by Top Inspired magazine.

According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), the number of international visitors to Vietnam in 2015 reached 7.9 million arrivals, up 0.9% compared with 2014.

On January 6, the Superstar Virgo arrived at the Tien Sa Port in Danang for a one-day port of call carrying 1,850 passengers and crew, say officials at Saigontourist Travel Services.

Stuff - a New Zealand news website - has revealed top 6 popular travel destinations for 2016. Accordingly, Vietnam got the second place in the list with positive remarks like unspoilt landscapes, friendliest locals, and finest cuisines.

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has set the target to become Vietnam’s biggest mountainous cultural and natural tourism hub in its tourism master plan for 2015-2020 with a vision to 2030.