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Vietnam Commercial Joint Stock Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) debuts its Reg S/144A 5-year unsecured dollar bonds (CTG VN May 2017) on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) on May 18, the lender said in a statement released today. With this bond issuance, VietinBank aims to: (i) Restructure its capital through increasing the proportion...
Posted date: Sat, 19 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
Son Tra Peninsula, about 10km from downtown Da Nang, is a favoured destination for local and foreign tourists in the summer holidays, with pristine, sunny beaches and various natural sites to attract wildlife watchers and adventurers. Tourists can watch Pygathrix nemaeus – a rare species of langur which is listed in Red Book – up close...
Posted date: Sat, 19 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
Among well-known tourist attractions in Dalat City, the Thung lung tinh ye or Valley of Love appeals to abundant arrivals thanks to its romantic landscapes. The plateau which is now known as Dalat City was discovered by French bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin and was mapped in 1893. In the middle of the 1910s, the urban area of Dalat was formed...
Posted date: Sat, 19 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
LAO CAI — The northern province of Lao Cai aimed to receive 1.5 million visitors and earn more than VND3.4 trillion (US$162 million) from tourism services by 2015, according to its tourism development plan for 2011-15. In order to reach the target, the province has developed 12 tourism sites and identified Sapa, Bac Ha and Lao Cai City as key...
Posted date: Sat, 19 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
The Quang Ninh-based Tuan Chau Five Star Yacht Joint Stock Company (Paradise Cruise) has just launched a big promotion offering tours costing from only VND7 to VND1.7million (US$85), starting May 15. Titled “Summer in Paradise,” the program, on the occasion that the bay has just been recognized as a new world wonder, includes 7,000 tickets...
Posted date: Fri, 18 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
Travel companies are offering huge promotional programmes and discount incentives of upto 30-40 per cent to lure travellers during this difficult economic time. According to Mr. Tran Doan The Duy, deputy director-general of Vietravel Company, people have tightened spending and spend less money on travelling. The market needs a tourism...
Posted date: Fri, 18 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
Travel firms in HCM City had many times refused to serve groups of foreign travelers because they could not find the tour guides who can speak less common languages and had practice cards. Lacking tour guides causes a headache Lien Bang travel firm has expressed regret about the missed opportunities, when it had to refused to serve the...
Posted date: Fri, 18 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
DA NANG — Da Nang has been soliciting the investments of Italian businessmen, chairman of the city's People's Committee Van Huu Chien said in a meeting yesterday with Italian ambassador to Viet Nam Lorenzo Angeloni. "We expect to see more Italian enterprises invest in the city in coming years. Our six industrial zones and a hi-tech park have...
Posted date: Thu, 17 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
The HCM City Tourism Association (HTA) and the national flag air carrier Vietnam Airlines has reached an agreement about the cooperation to ease the tour fees in a program to stimulate the demand. Vietnam Airlines has offered the 40 percent airfare discount for groups of passengers flying from HCM City to Hanoi, Da Nang, Phu Quoc and Da...
Posted date: Wed, 16 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
La Vang Church in Hai Lang District, Quang Tri Province is not only for Catholic pilgrims, but also for tourists to admire the beautiful architecture and find some peace for their soul. Located 40 kilometers from Hue City, the church refers to a reported Virgin Mary apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam....
Posted date: Tue, 15 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
Thousands of visitors have dropped in Vietnam’s stand at the ongoing fourth Friends’ Culture Fair, themed ‘Diversity in Harmony’ in Mexico City from May 12-27. On display are handicraft products including lacquer paintings, palm-leaf conical hats, traditional long dresses worn by Vietnamese women, and films about Vietnam and its...
Posted date: Tue, 15 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
The northern border province of Lao Cai aims to receive 1.5 million visitors and earn more than VND3,400 billion (US$162 million) from tourism services by 2015. To obtain the target, the province has developed 12 tourism sites and identified Sapa, Bac Ha and Lao Cai City as key destinations for tourism development. It also built three key...
Posted date: Tue, 15 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
The thousand-year-old temple of King Le (King Le Dai Hanh) is situated in the ancient capital of Hoa Lu, Ninh Binh Province, around 200 kilometers away from Hanoi. Every year the temple and the nearby Dinh King temple attract hundreds of thousands of people who come to pay their respects to King Le who fought courageously, protecting the...
Posted date: Mon, 14 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
Around 300 tourists on a direct flight from Russian city Novosibirsk were welcomed by the authorities of Da Nang City in central Vietnam last Saturday afternoon. It is estimated that around 12,000 tourists from Novosibirsk and other cities like Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk will arrive in Da Nang on Boeing 767-300 planes from now until October. On...
Posted date: Mon, 14 May 2012 - From: Tourism News
The launching ceremony for a heritage tourism promotion project in central Viet Nam was held in Hoi An on Tuesday. The central provincial people's committee of Quang Nam, the UNESCO office in Ha Noi and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO aim to promote tourism among local communities and draw attention to the World Heritage Sites in the...
Posted date: Sun, 13 May 2012 - From: Tourism News