Sep
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HCMC-Mumbai air service in the offing
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India’s Jet Airways is studying the Vietnamese market in preparation for starting an air route connecting HCMC with Mumbai in the coming time.
Abhay Thakur, Consul General of India in HCMC, said Vietnam and India are working to operate a direct flight connecting the two countries. Vietnam Airlines and Jet Airways last October signed a memorandum of understanding on opening the HCMC-Mumbai service or HCMC-Bangkok-Mumbai air route.
“Jet Airways has picked an agent in Vietnam, and the opening of this flight will boost the tourism,” he said at a meeting introducing India’s tourism on Wednesday in HCMC.
However, the exact time for this new flight is not mentioned.
According to several Indian travel agencies attending the meeting, the Vietnamese market is growing strongly. These firms are boosting promotion activities in Vietnam and have invited Vietnamese travel and media agencies to India to explore the country’s tourism.
Mukesh Kumar from Magadh Travels & Tours Pvt. Ltd said that the firm welcomed around 300 Vietnamese tourists last year, and the number of Vietnamese would be higher this year. “We are planning to open a representative office in HCMC,” he said.
Meanwhile, Top Travel & Tours Pvt. Ltd had up to 2,000 tourists from Vietnam last year, up 50% from the previous year.
According to Vietnamese travel firms, despite the absence of a direct flight to India, the number of customers buying tours to this country is on the rise.
Do Thi Khanh, director of Viet An Co., said that her firm takes over 2,000 tourists to India each year.
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Sep
21
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Vietnam looks to one million Japanese tourists in 2015
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With tourism promotion activities being conducted in Japan until next Tuesday, Vietnam has officially kicked off the campaign of attracting one million tourists arrivals from Japan in 2015, doubling that of last year.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and travel firms are organizing a number of tourism promotion programs and road shows in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. Besides, they will attend JATA Tourism Forum & Travel Showcase 2012 and work with the Vietnam-Japan Tourism Cooperation Committee on specific promotion activities.
Previously, the Vietnam Festival 2012 in Japan was held late last week in Tokyo by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and relevant agencies of the two countries.
“We are performing several activities in Japan and have officially kicked off the campaign of attracting one million Japanese tourist arrivals to Vietnam in 2015,” Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan, head of VNAT, told the Daily on Wednesday.
Japan is currently the third largest market of Vietnam’s tourism after China and South Korea, and Vietnam is offering visa-free entry for Japanese passport holders for stays of no more than 15 days.
There were nearly 482,000 Japan tourist arrivals in Vietnam last year, up 8.9% from the previous year. Meanwhile, the number in the year’s first eight months was over 376,000 arrivals, or a rise of 18.9% from the same period last year.
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Sep
21
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Cruise tourism in Southeast Asia begins to boom
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Cruise tourism in Vietnam is growing in the context that this segment begins to boom in Southeast Asia.
Phan Xuan Anh, chairman of Viet Excursions, said cruise lines from the U.S. and Europe are promoting new destinations in Asia, including Vietnam. Therefore, the company has recorded a rise of 1.5 times in the number of orders for the tourism season from November 2012 to April 2013, the best growth so far.
Viet Excursions not only caters to cruise ships arriving in Vietnam, but also those visiting Cambodia. From Cambodia, tourists can take chartered flights to Thailand, and then travel to Singapore.
Meanwhile, Saigontourist estimated the company would welcome 130,000 international cruise tourists this year, rising 25-30% against 2011. Along with the cruise ships coming from Asian countries, Saigontourist is receiving cruise ships from Europe and many international river cruise ships.
In the next tourism season, from November 2012 to March 2013, Saigontourist will welcome some 80,000 tourist arrivals, mostly those coming from China on cruise ships operated by StarCruises.
Cruise tourism in Southeast Asia begins to boom. Large cruise ships in the world have made presence in the region, dropping anchors in Singapore, one of the regional countries with strength in cruise tourism.
This is informed in a press release of the division for ASEAN cruise tourism under ASEAN Tourism on the occasion of the two-day conference Cruise Shipping Asia-Pacific opening on Monday in Singapore.
Large cruise ships such as Costa Deliziosa of Costa Cruises, or those operated by Royal Caribbean and Voyager of the Seas choose Singapore as the main port from now to 2013. Other ships of Costa Cruises and those of StarCruises have already chosen Singapore as the main port.
They are also expanding the port network into Kuala Lumpur, Langkawi, Penang, and Malacca in Malaysia; Bangkok, Phuket, and Koh Samui in Thailand; Bali and Komodo in Indonesia; and HCMC, Danang and Halong Bay in Vietnam.
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Vietnam attends IFTN Top Resa in France
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21/09/2012 09:36:16
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UNESCO helps Ha Giang province manage and develop tourism
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21/09/2012 09:31:18
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Air Mekong starts Tet holiday ticket sales
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21/09/2012 09:28:46
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Soc Trang diversifies tourism models to attract tourists
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21/09/2012 09:26:20
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Craft village fair to open later this month
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21/09/2012 09:24:34
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Swan Lake comes to Hanoi
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21/09/2012 09:21:19
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Vietnam-Korea exchange concert
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21/09/2012 09:19:58
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Cruise, cuisine and culture on Saigon River
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21/09/2012 09:15:36
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World No. 1 Azarenka arrives in town
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21/09/2012 09:00:54
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