Promotion programmes for tourists to Nha Trang

hanoi airport to halong bay - The 2016 Nha Trang tourism promotion programme promises to bring enormous benefits for domestic and international vacationers in the resort city in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa.

Visitors at Nha Trang Bay (Photo: VNA)

The Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa Tourism Association held a press conference in Nha Trang city on February 26 to introduce the programme. hanoi package tours

As part of the programme, ceremony to sign cooperation deals and popularise tourism products will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from March 23 to 27 and in Hanoi from April 13 to 17.

The involved parties will promote their products at the 12th trade fair and tourism festival in Ho Chi Minh City and the international tourism fair in Hanoi .

To date, 22 businesses, hotels, restaurants and tourist companies have registered to join the programmes, pledging to offer numerous incentives for partners and tourists.

Nha Trang Tourism Promotion Forum Chairman Le Kim Nhut said the programme will cover tour discounts with high-quality products and services, providing holiday-makers with various new and exciting experiences.

In 2015, Khanh Hoa welcomed more than 4.1 million tourists, including around 974,000 foreigners, grossing 7 trillion VND (315 million USD). hanoi to halong bay bus

The province aims to serve 4.5 million visitors in 2016.

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10 summer tourist attraction of Vietnam

hanoi tourist - Summer is the ideal season for people to discover new destinations and escape from the heat. Below are the best destinations for this summer.

1. Sa Pa

The cool climate year round in Sapa makes it an ideal place to escape the heat.

Sapa has many famous tourist sites, beautiful landscapes for tourists to visit and explore such as the old stone church from the French-ruled period, the villages of Cat Cat, Ta Phin, Muong Hoa valley, the ancient rock ground, the Love waterfall, the Heaven gate, Tien Cave and Coc San ...

2. Ha Long Bay

There is no reason for you to ignore this world natural wonder. In addition to the familiar landscapes, famous beaches, this summer tourists can discover Ha Long in an entirely different way from a jet ski, seaplane, kayak, or by parasailing.

3. Buon Don National Park

Over 50km from Buon Ma Thuot City, Buon Don national park is an ideal ecological zone in the Central Highlands, which can help dispel the hot summer.

Visitors stay in bungalows built like houses on stilts of the Ede people, on the bank of Lak Lake. hanoi to halong bay bus

Riding elephants is one of the favorite activities of tourists. The elephants are gentle and they will takes visitors through the forest and the lake, to explore the colorful Don Village.

4. Da Lat - the city of love

Fresh air in the highlands city of Da Lat is suitable for those who want a "cooling" place in the summer.

Da Lat has lush pine forests, cool breezes, babbling streams, lakes, flowers, mountains. In this resort city, you can visit famous tourist attractions such as Dambri Waterfall, Xuan Huong Lake, Valley of Love, Cam Ly rose garden, Mimosa hill, Tram Nam valley, the city garden, Truc Lam Monastery, Tuyen Lam Lake...

5. Hue

This summer in Hue, tourists will experience new games and sports that have appeared for the first time in Vietnam, such as highwire and zipline.

6. Ham Thuan

Ham Thuan Nam in the resort city of Phan Thiet has become an attraction in summer. It is the home to the oldest lighthouse in Vietnam (Mui Ke Ga), vast and beautiful sand dunes and forests with thousand-year-old trees. hanoi airport to halong bay

Visitors can rent bikes or jeeps to roam the coastal roads or the sand dunes.

7. Nha Trang

Nha Trang city is famous for its beautiful beaches, pristine islands, as well as entertainment activities. Apart from the attractive beach activities like windsurfing, parasailing, etc. some new tours have been offered this summer: walking under the sea and Flyboard.

8. Shooting fish in Da Nang

Besides the well-known sites such as the Linh Ung Pagoda, Son Tra Peninsula, Ngu Hanh Son, Ba Na Hills resort with thrilling games in the Fantasy Park, tourists in Danang will have a new experience: diving to shoot fish in Son Tra Peninsula.

9. An Giang

This summer An Giang has launched a new tour that promises to give tourists new experiences: fishing tour on the Vam Nao River.

Visitors will enjoy amazing food processed from bong lau catfish and melodies of traditional music don ca tai tu. They then will be taken to the area where fishermen catch fish.

10. Con Dao

Con Dao is romantic and peaceful surrounded by the blue sea; it is a fascinating destination in summer. Con Dao is suitable for picnics and enjoying pristine nature. Tourists can plan a forest trip or explore the shimmering life in the ocean.

Besides unspoiled places, folk dishes on Con Dao are also attractive to tourists.

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Hanoi tourism lacks nothing but attractive products

hanoi tourist attractions - In people’s thoughts, touring in Hanoi means visiting ancient streets, watching water puppetry, visiting Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and the Museum of Ethnology. The itinerary has not changed over the last many years.

Foreign tourists visit the Museum of Ethnology

It is estimated that 40 percent of travelers only stay in Hanoi as a transit point before leaving for other tourism sites.

Having dinner, watching water puppetry, and that’s all

When asked about the tourism products of Hanoi, a tour guide said: “having dinner, watching water puppetry and then… going to bed,” meaning that travelers have nothing to do in the city because of the lack of entertainment activities.

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Nguyen Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Travel Department under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), also said that travelers to Hanoi never stay there for more than two days, because they do not know where to go on the third and subsequent days.

The problem is that Hanoi still does not have attractive tourism products, while there are very few entertainment complexes in the capital city. Hanoi once attracted a huge number of travelers who came to attend the 1000th anniversary of the city establishment. However, the number of tourists to the city has been decreasing after the important event.

Hanoi proves to be unprofessional in developing tourism industry. In July, local residents in Bat Trang porcelain craft village threw stones into the coach carrying a group of tourists, who visited a shop here but did not buy anything. The information has raised the wave of indignation from the community.

Pham Trung Luong, Deputy Head of the Vietnam Tourism Development Research Institute, also said that the revenue brought by the tourism industry in Hanoi proves to be too low if compared with the city’s great potentials.

The Co Loa historical site, programmed as a national tourism site, has not developed significantly over the last 10 years. It is because the city’s authorities still do not have reasonable policies to attract investor to the field.

Under the tourism development strategy, Hanoi, HCM City, Hue and Da Nang are considered the key tourism centers of the north, south and the central region. While the southern and the central regions’ key centers have been developing well, Hanoi has not made any considerable progress in tourism development.

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To date, Hanoi has been known as the tourism transit center, from which tourists flow to other localities in the country, rather than a country’s key tourism center.

“Hanoi takes pride of its 5000 historical relics, but how many of them have been put into tourism services?” questioned Vu The Binh, Chair of the Vietnam Travel Association.

“Hanoi is rich in natural resources, but it is not rich in tourism products,” he continued.

Hanoi urged to move ahead

“In order to become a key tourism center, Hanoi needs to organize impressive tourism events,” Binh said.

In fact, Hanoi organized a lot of events in the pasts, but it did not organize international tourism events or international trade fairs which could attract big travel firms in the world.

“It is necessary to build up tourism events in order to brand Hanoi’s tourism. We cannot repeat the “chorus” that Hanoi is the 1000-year old city. It is necessary to have new products to attract travelers. They need to enjoy and go shopping,” Binh stressed.

Meanwhile, Tuan from VNAT said that Hanoi needs to make a breakthrough in developing tourism. The city needs to develop tourism products targeting to three different groups of clients – foreigners traveling to Hanoi, foreign expats and domestic travelers.

With the great potentials, Hanoi should strive to receive 2 million foreign tourists by 2012, instead of 2015 as previously planned.

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Fall Hanoi Cuisine

hanoi travel agency - If revenues go into the poetry capital Hanoi as endless inspiration of the artist, the record date dishes that travelers do not want to leave the vacuum attachment. In the cold autumn wind, it's great to just sidewalk cafes la pears, breathing the cool weather and collecting snacks taste typical of autumn.

From how life is, "milk crumb pavement" - the gifts home leg of the quintessential images associated with the fall of Hanoi "cold rice plants yellow, red leaf tree eagle". On the lower end of the receiver from the village of Round (Cau Giay district, Hanoi) to the co-opted each sticky rice cotton stretch round yellow flowers, make plotters as nuggets. Nuggets wrapped in lotus leaf wax old or young green potato leaves, tied with golden straw has only seen Thom cravings. Com also enjoying gentle and subtle. The easiest is to use a little pinch of the fingers for each small nuggets into his mouth, slowly leisurely the soft taste, aroma, sweet to love li of nuggets. A little more sophisticated, use banana or red pepper, ripe, put on the cereal grain to feel the sweetness of the banana and pink, blend nuggets plasticity married.

From his young green cereal grains, Hanoi also cleverly invented bread crumb, fried nuggets, sticky nuggets, fried nuggets ... very tasty, bearing very own identity menstruation land. Many recent years, Hanoi nuggets presence throughout the provinces but the most delicious dishes, most true, only in the capital. By nuggets Where is only good food, but also enjoy its own flavor.

If the summer with a cool glass of sour crocodile, the Hanoi autumn afternoon with hearts of gold crocodile nursery. After nine whisper, as gentle autumn to make the space filled with a mellow shades hearts.

Just scrape alligator outside crust, cut into spirals and then mixed with salt, sugar, chili powder, you will have a delicious snack. Put a small piece of crocodile bite to his mouth, saw enough sour - bitter - salty - sweet melting on the tongue. The most delicious fruit is hand-picked once, so after eating can also add a little sucked're ecstatic kingdom on the fingers.

After Crocodile and cereal, fruit has a pink can not forget is soaked. Persimmons appeared around the 8th lunar month when Hanoi Budding autumn and is one of the dishes on trays indispensable Autumn.

Outer green idea but when added up inside the yellow-orange, slightly sweet taste and eat very crispy. Hong soaked arose only just over month after the full moon in August is a little slowly and then quickly end should make people gloat, tinged with regret.

Writer Vu Bang each simile: "By season without eating, as a beautiful woman has to take charge of flowers age, weighing a conviction would later regret remember" when talking about the ball flies - bold style dishes you fall Hanoi. Flies appear late September early October, when the weather changes, erratic rain and sun. Who will first hit the startled by the strange shape of the flies swarming like earthworms, enough blue, brown, gold ... But the form slightly "unpleasant", but this is irresistible delicacies if reluctant to wait until next year for a half season only three days to appear chips are out.

Flies high in protein, can cook beets, steamed, stir-fried beet leaves, fried braces braces ... but the most unusual is still doing rolls. You sound so-bar, bitter flavor of citrus peel as rolls, egg and meat fatty, sweet or fragrant aroma and a half of it is ... awaken the senses to enjoy. All year round, Hang Combs, Grilled Fish, Jiayu ... have the right to sell a half but to eat the main dish of fresh and a half, you should look to this new fall Hanoi fully enjoy its special flavor.

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