3 major Vietnamese cities among top Southeast Asian destinations
Readers of the Travel + Leisure magazine have included Vietnam’s Da Nang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the list of “Top 10 Cities In Southeast Asia” under “Asia’s Best Awards 2022.”
Readers of the Travel + Leisure magazine have included Vietnam’s Da Nang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the list of “Top 10 Cities In Southeast Asia” under “Asia’s Best Awards 2022.”
Da Nang is the central region’s tourism hub and a destination with many attractions, but the city still lacks nightlife entertainment activities for high spending tourists, experts say.
There were 60.8 million domestic tourists in the first half of this year, 1.4 times the pre-pandemic number and already past the full-year target of 60 million.
The Ministry of Transport has ordered Vietnamese airlines to improve on punctuality after more than 5,600 flights were delayed in June with late-arriving aircraft cited as the main reason.
Cambodia Angkor Air on Friday restarted its Siem Reap-Da Nang service after over two years of suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vietnam received 602,000 foreign arrivals in the first half of this year, around 7 percent of pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
British newspaper The Independent has listed Regent Phu Quoc, opened to tourists in April, among the six best seaside hotels in the world for a summer retreat.
Dubai-based Time Out magazine has listed Hoi An ancient town in central Vietnam among “the very best places” to travel to in July with warm weather.
The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre was acknowledged as boasting the world’s largest number of dishes made of coconut by World Records Union (Worldkings), 222.
Swimming and diving has been banned at Mun Island Marine Protected Area in Nha Trang Bay from Monday to assess the condition of its shrinking coral reefs.