Posted by admin on January 30, 2011 under Vietnam Travel in the South, Vietnam travel News, vietnam hotel | 
Hotels and tourist sites under Saigontourist in HCMC are preparing food programs for the traditional Vietnamese Lunar New Year.
Rex Saigon (141 Nguyen Hue Boulevard, District 1)
The hotel will host a Tet welcoming buffet party on Lunar New Year’s Eve on February 2, accompanied with entertainment, lion dance, music performances and fashion shows.
Rex hotel is an ideal place for tourists to see the fireworks. Tickets are US$89 per adult and US$44 per child.
Continental Hotel Saigon (132 Dong Khoi Street, District 1)
The hotel will offer a set menu with typical Tet dishes priced from VND500,000 per person and VND800,000 for two. The program runs from January 30 to February 6.
First Hotel ho chi minh (18 Hoang Viet Street, Tan Binh District)
The program “Spring comes knocking” will be hosted every night of the first four days of the New Year (February from 3 to 6). Enjoy music shows, lucky draw and unicorn dances by Nhan Nghia Duong lion dance troupe.
Que Huong Liberty 4 (256 Pham Ngu Lao, District 1)
The hotel’s Gio Noi Restaurant will prepare a buffet with more than 60 dishes on weekend nights from Fridays to Sundays. Tickets are VND198,000 per adult and VND98,000 per child.
Liberty Central Hotel (179 Le Thanh Ton Street, District 1)
The hotel introduces new dishes made of ostrich including spring rolls, stir-fry, grilled with herbs or chilly salt. The hotel also serves buffet breakfast priced at VND199,000 per guest and lunch for office workers at VND59,000.
Thien Hong Hotel (52 Tan Da Street, District 5)
On Lunar New Year’s Eve, the hotel will prepare a buffet program with more than 30 dishes made in Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine, accompanied with music show and lucky draw. Tickets are priced at VND229,000 per adult and VND149,000 per child. Buy 10 tickets, get one free.
Bong Sen Saigon Hotel (117 Dong Khoi Street, District 1)
The hotel’s Buffe Ganh Restaurant will hold “New Year lucky buffet” program with an ethnic music show. The buffet lunch is priced at VND220,000 per adult and VND110,000 per child and buffet dinner is priced at VND320,000 per adult and VND160,000 per child.
On the seventh and twelfth floor, there will be buffets with lucky New Year traditional Tet dishes.
Van Thanh Tourist Area (48/10 Dien Bien Phu Street, Binh Thanh District)
The buffet called “Back to hometown for Tet” will run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. from February 4 to 6 with traditional dishes. Guests can join folk games to win prizes and enjoy a piano performance. Tickets are priced at VND190,000 per adult and VND120,000 per child.
Binh Quoi 2 Tourist Area (At the end of Binh Quoi Street in Binh Thanh District)
The buffet called “Great dishes from the coast” will have over 70 seafood and barbecue dishes. Buffet lunch is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and buffet dinner is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., along with flamenco music show, juggling and circus performances. Tickets are priced from VND170,000 per adult, inclusive of a jug of Russian beer and VND100,000 per child. Guests can take a cruise around Thanh Da Peninsula for VND50,000 per adult and VND30,000 per child. Buy 10 tickets on the cruise, get one free.
Saigon Ship Restaurant (Bach Dang Wharf, District 1)
The buffet named “Spring cruise on Saigon River” will be on for lunch from February 4 to 6, with more than 50 Tet dishes. Enjoy live music, juggling and circus performances. Tickets are VND190,000 per adult and VND120,000 per child. At night, the cruise leaves the wharf twice – 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Tan Cang Tourist Area (A100 Ung Van Khiem, Binh Thanh District)
The area will host a program “Back to hometown for Tet celebrations” from February 6 to 8” and “Tan Cang grilled hotpot” with more than 80 dishes and seafood hotpots. Tickets are priced from VND250,000 per adult and VND140,000 per child, inclusive of a jug of Russian beer, fresh ice-cream and fruit juices.
Tickets will be discounted 30% on February 8.
Binh Quoi 1 Tourist Area (1147 Binh Quoi Street, Binh Thanh District)
From February 4 to 7, the tourist area will hold buffet lunches and dinners with more than 70 selected dishes in the garden area, along with ethnic artistic performances. Tickets are VND180,000 per adult and VND100,000 per child.
The area’s restaurant will serve Vietnamese dishes, accompanied with juggling and music show.
Saigon Hotel (41 Dong Du Street, District 1)
The hotel will prepare a buffet for Lunar New Year’s Eve with about 40 Western and Asian dishes on the ninth floor overlooking the Saigon River and fireworks display. Tickets are VND399,000 per adult and VND199,000 per child, inclusive of one jug of beer, and free for children under 3.
Saigon Phu Quoc Resort and Spa (1 Tran Hung Dao Street, Phu Quoc District, Kien Giang Province)
On Lunar New Year’s Eve, the resort will put a 6m-high yellow apricot tree on the floating sea stage. There will be a Tet party with traditional food, folk games, showmanship and a cruise along the beach. Tickets are US$69 per adult, US$35 per child.
Palace Hotel Saigon (56-66 Nguyen Hue, Dist. 1, HCMC)
The Golden Palace on level five of the four-star hotel will launch its buffet program named “Luck, Prosperity & Longevity” featuring fine seafood including abalone, oyster, shrimp, crab, caviar and salmon. The buffet will also serve Tet specialties, golden carp, royal meat roll and pork pies, golden roasted goose with a free flow of wine, beer, soft drink, fruit juice, tea and coffee.
The restaurant will be decorated with colorful fish and three deities of Luck, Prosperity and Longevity will welcome guests at the door.
It runs from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. from Lunar New Year’s Eve (Feb. 2) until the forth of the first lunar month (Feb. 6). The price on Feb. 2 is VND550,000++ per adult and VND350,000 from Feb. 3 to Feb. 6.
Lemongrass Restaurant (level 14, Palace Hotel Saigon, 56-66 Nguyen Hue Blvd., Dist. 1, HCMC)
On the New Year’s Eve (Feb. 2), the Lemongrass Restaurant on the 14th floor of the Palace Hotel Saigon will hold a Lunar New Year’s Eve Party featuring mouthwatering dishes made from sea food like grilled shrimp paste, grilled squid paste, shark fin & crab soup, tuna salad with Wasabi sauce, grilled tuna served with ginger sauce among others. There’s a free flow of drinks like Tiger draught beer, Heineken and soft drinks.
Enjoy folk music performance and folk dances. The hotel’s roof top on level 15 & 16 is an ideal place for watching fireworks and Nguyen Hue Flower Street. The buffet which is available from 7:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. on Feb 2 is priced at VND1.3 million ++ /adult, and VND830,000++/child.
Calibre Charner (level 1, Palace Hotel Saigon, 56-66 Nguyen Hue Blvd., Dist. 1, HCMC)
The restaurant offers two luxury set menus for New Year’s Eve. The first menu consists of Russian salad, potato soup with smoked salmon, grilled lobster, dessert and Palace flan. The second one includes salmon salad, abalone soup, American beef with baked potatoes and cakes for dessert. The buffet which is available from 7:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 2 is priced at US$59++.
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Source: thesaigontimes.vn
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It is said that the peach flower is the symbol of Tết in the north, then the yellow apricot flower is its counterpart in the south. But today, the apricot is no longer unique to the south. A rare kind of apricot was discovered on Yen Tu Mountain in Quảng Ninh province.
The yellow apricot trees blossoms on the height of 1,000 metres above sea level. In 2007, some of locals and tourists accidentally discovered this precious species of apricot trees while visiting Yên Tử Mountain. They called them “Yên Tử yellow apricot flowers” to distinguish with the apricot flowers in the south.
According to several scientists, the Yên Tử apricot trees and other species of apricot trees in the South have the same origin: they belong to Ochna integerrima (Lour. Merr.) It is questioned whether the Yen Tu apricot trees or apricot trees in the south appeared earlier.
Up to now, there is no research about the time of appearance of these apricot trees. A theory says that apricot trees at Yên Tử Mountain were transferred from the south of Việt Nam and they grow until today. Other theory says that the apricot trees at Yên Tử Mountain travelled from the mountain of southwest China then they went to the south of Việt Nam and other Indochinese countries.
Source: quangninh.gov.vn
Posted by admin on January 29, 2011 under Vietnam Travel in the Central, Vietnam travel News, vietnam hotel |
For the first time in Vietnam, over the three nights of February 4th, 7th and 10th, the Six Senses Ninh Van Bay resort will hold nights of astronomy and national cuisine at the Dining by the Rocks Restaurant to welcome the upcoming Lunar New Year.
For the first time in Vietnam, over the three nights of February 4th, 7th and 10th, the Six Senses Ninh Van Bay resort will hold nights of astronomy and national cuisine at the Dining by the Rocks Restaurant to welcome the upcoming Lunar New Year.
Participants will hear a talk on astronomy, and will be told how to use telescopes by astronomist Parag Mahajani, a member of the Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS). Mr. Mahajani published more than 500 articles in Indian newspapers, and held 1,000 talks on astronomy.
In addition, at the event, visitors will enjoy foods prepared by the resort’s chef according to each zodiac sign.
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Source: tintucdulich
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Diplomats and representatives of the UNESCO Vietnam on January 23 take a study tour at the Ho Dynasty Citadel in Thanh Hoa province to evaluate the architectural and historical values of this work.
They also visited the Nam Giao Esplanade relic and satellite relics. Thanh Hoa officials introduced information about the globally outstanding values of the Ho Dynasty Citadel.
At the end of the trip, UNESCO Vietnam chief representative Katherine Muller Marin said that she was very impressed with the Ho Dynasty Citadel, the Nam Giao Esplanade and the king’s well.
“I’m impressed by the way ancient people put together big flagstones in such a short time without any adhesive,” Marin said.
She was also impressed by the special design of the Nam Giao Esplanade and King Ho Quy Ly’s reformed ideas. She said that these elements are very important.
Pham Sanh Chau, chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Foreign Cultural Relations – UNESCO Department, said that Thanh Hoa authorities need to carefully prepare documents related to this site to get the best result at the 35th session of the World Heritage Committee in Bahrain this June.
Ho Dynasty Citadel was the capital of the Ho Dynasty, which is also called Tay Do (western capital) to differentiate it from Dong Do (eastern capital – Thang Long). This is a unique stone-made work in Vietnam. Around 20,000 cubic meters of stone were used to build the citadel and 100,000 cubic meters of land were excavated.
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Ho chi minh City’s residents, travel firms and local authorities all have agreed that it is necessary to develop waterway tourism. However, they still do not know what and how to develop.
New tour opened
About 50 travellers on Dong Duong (Indochina) sailing ship officially opened the short-distance waterway tourism route along Saigon River, departing from Bach Dang station to the Ham Long craftsmen’s village in Thanh My Loi in district 2. Phan Xuan Anh, Chair of Du Ngoan Viet Travel Firm said happily: “Now travel firms have one more new tourism product to introduce to travellers when they come to the city”.
Painter Ho Huu Thu, Chair of the Ham Long Craftsmen’s Joint Stock Company, said that the craftsmen’s village, located humbly on the Saigon riverbank and not well known, has welcomed many tourists just seven months after the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism decided to develop waterway tourism. For the last 10 years, the who painters have gathered in this quiet and charming landscape, set up a village to invite people to come here to visit original models in the village exhibit the painting style of southern painters. Now they feel satisfied that their vision is being realised.
The only thing Thu is worried about is that only 1/5 of the works in the village have been fulfilled and the village still is not as perfect as hoped.
Being one of the first visitors to the craftsmen’s village, Ly Ngoc Bach, General Director of Cuong Phat Company said that it is a wonderful idea to present opportunities for tourists to travel on the river and visit such a beautiful village. “The landscapes here are wonderful and travellers also have the opportunity to admire the paintings of famous painters.
Bach went on to say that the Ham Long craftsmen’s village is relatively large, and if tours can be well organised to allow travellers to admire, behold and relax at the same time, they will not only spend a morning or afternoon here, but the whole day.
Bach also thinks that only one destination for waterway tourism is too little, and that it is necessary to develop more tourism sites along the river.
A ship but no wharf
The thing that may surprise many people is that such a big scale tour still has many problems. According to An Son Lam, Chair of Dong Duong Sailing Ship Company, Tthe biggest problem is that there is still no wharf for tourists to go ashore. Lam said he is not satisfied when servicemen have to lift and carry travellers in their arms ashore. The current ship is a medium sized ship that can contain only 50 travellers, but there is still no room for it to dock. Larger vessels would have even more difficulties. In general, Lam said, the basic conditions of a tourism wharf are still not good. Lam fears that the lack of the basic conditions will discourage tourists and hinder the development of waterway tourism.
Phan Xuan Anh, who spent time inviting people to take the tour, said he was so happy when the tour caught the attention of Du Ngoan Viet, APEX, Ben Thanh Tourism and Ngoc Phong Enterprise. Anh said that though it takes people only 15 minutes to driver cars from the centre of the city to the Ham Long village, tourists would prefer travelling on river because they have the opportunity to enjoy beautiful landscapes on the riverbank.
Anh said that if a wharf can be built, the waterway tour will be able to attract more tourists and enterprises will also be ready to build more ships.
Anh has also cited that another inconveniences is that foreigners cannot pay by credit cards when they want to purchase paintings in the village. He has also suggested that there are many things that the craftsmen in the village can do to attract more tourists. For example, painters can open calligraphy classes to, or invite tourists to have lunches with painters’ families. In summer, travel firms can bring boys and girls to the village to stay and learn to paint.
Source: Saigon tiep thi
Posted by admin on January 27, 2011 under Vietnam tour, Vietnam travel News |
National Tourism Year 2011 which highlights the southern central coastal region will kick off in Phu Yen province on April 1.
The organising board said at a Jan. 25 press briefing that an artistic programme to celebrate the 400th founding anniversary of Phu Yen province will also take place on the same day with People’s Artist Le Ngoc Cuong, former Head of the Performance Arts Agency, as the programme director.
Accordingly, over 30 special events will be organised in eight southern central coastal cities and provinces of Danang , Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Phu Yen during the event.
Highlights for the event will include the International Yacht Festival in Mui Ne beach, Binh Thuan province from March 17-20, an International Firework Display in Danang city on April 29-30, the ASEAN Traditional Music Festival on June 1-7 in Phu Yen, the Nha Trang Sea Festival on June 11-15 and the cultural, sports and tourism festival of ethnic groups in the central and Central Highlands region in Phu Yen in July.
In preparation for the national promotion, the cities and provinces have worked with the National Tourism Administration to conduct two surveys in tourism destinations to create inter-regional tourism products.
Phu Yen province, as the host of the event, has also built up several cultural, sports and tourism establishments and stepped up the development of infrastructure and transport to meet visitors’ demands.
With the theme, “Exotic Beach and Island”, National Tourism Year is an opportunity to promote the country’s sea and island tourism, effectively exploit tourism potential and boost investment promotion.
Source: VietnamPlus
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Zinc | InVision Hospitality is promoting seven hotel and hospitality brands to tourism investors and investment funds in the city.
Those brands are Zinc City, Glow Studios, Zinc Edge, Zinc Journey, Zinc Living, Soma and Touch by Zinc. Each of them caters to a particular market segment such as Soma that focuses on luxury resorts, Zinc Living on long-stay and residential living, and Zinc Journey on heritage travel.
Kevin J Beauvais, CEO of Zinc | InVision Hospitality, told the Daily at a luncheon in HCMC on Monday that at the beginning, the company wanted to develop Glow Studios as a hotel and apartment services brand, Zinc City as a “value for money” boutique business hotels brand and Touch by Zinc as a health and wellness destination spa brand in the Vietnam hotel market.
Kevin J Beauvais (L), CEO of Zinc | InVision Hospitality, chats with an invited guest at the meeting in HCMC
“We not only manage hotel properties but also contribute investment capital to them. We are looking for partners with a long-tern focus,” Beauvais said.According to him, the company’s development plan will receive funding by Z-I Capital Partners, which is an investment fund set up by the Zinc | InVision Hospitality partners and other investors.
‘We have a partner on Tuesday that we working with in the hotel consulting and design area and other client partners in Vietnam. We cannot give you specifics but in the coming 90 days we will announce the details,” he said.
The marketing event in HCMC is one of the activities organized by the company in a road show this month to promote the brands in some Asian markets such as Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
Zinc | InVision Hospitality has been developed by Thailand-based InVision Hospitality and Singapore-based Cinnovation | CG. The two announced their partnership to create the new company in Thailand’s Bangkok in the middle of this month.
Zinc | InVision Hospitality is looking to open 30 hotels in Asia by 2013. This year alone, the company will open seven hotels bearing Zinc Studios, Zinc Living, Zinc Journey and Touch by Zinc brands in Thailand, India and Nepal.
Many hotels are planned for other places such as Dubai, China, Malaysia, the Philippines in the next two years.
Source: SaigonTimes
Posted by admin on January 26, 2011 under Attractions, Vietnam Travel in the North, Vietnam festival, Vietnam travel News |
Various art activities to welcome the Party and Spring will be held from January 25 to February 20 at the Hanoi Ancient Citadel.
The information was released by Mr Nguyen Van Son, Director of the Preservation Centre for Co Loa Relic, Hanoi Ancient Citadel.
The organization board will introduce over 50 oil paintings reflecting life, culture, gastronomy, trade villages and trade streets in Thang Long – Hanoi from the 17th century to the 19th century, themed “Thang Long – Hanoi”.
Additionally, a documentary photo exhibition will be held with more than 100 photos about Thang Long – Hanoi sub-titled: scenery and urban areas; ancient streets; life and change; and colonial urban areas.
The organization board will also organize an exhibition and performance of calligraphy, themed “Spring in Thang Long Royal Citadel 2011”. Visitors will have the chance to contemplate over 100 unique ornamental plants.
Source: VIR
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There are two different segments taking shape in the Hanoi hotel market. Businessmen are choosing new hotels in the western area, while normal travellers choose the hotels in the central area.
Savills Vietnam, a real estate service provider, said that the demand for hotel rooms in Hanoi has increased considerably since the fourth quarter of 2010, and the demand is forecast to continue rising in the first quarter of 2011, since the market has entered the high business season.
According to Do Thu Hang, a senior executive of Savills Vietnam, in the fourth quarter of 2010, Savills Vietnam recognised the ranking of four star Silk Path and five star Grand Plaza hotels. Meanwhile, though Crowne Plaza hotel with 400 rooms has already opened, the list of property of Savills in the last quarter did not include the hotel.
Hang said that the fourth quarter business results of hotels in Hanoi in 2010 was better than that of the previous quarter. The average turnover per hotel room increased by 30 percent over the previous quarter and increased by six percent in comparison with the same period of 2009.
The average turnover per hotel room of three star hotels saw the sharpest increase of 30 percent in comparison with the third quarter of 2010. Meanwhile, four star and five star hotels saw turnover increases of 28 and 25 percent, respectively.
According to Richard Leech, Managing Director of CBRE, also a real estate service provider, continuing the recovery trend, the capacity and revenue per available room (RevPAR) in all market segments in the fourth quarter of 2010 saw considerable growth rates.
The statistics released by Savills Vietnam show that there are bout 6400 hotel rooms on the market provided by 43 hotels, eleven 5-star hotels, eight 4-star hotels and twenty-four 3-star hotels. In the fourth quarter of 2010, hotel room capacities and the hotel room rates increased by 11 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
There are 40 hotel projects under implementation in Hanoi. Of these, 18 projects are expected to provide 5500 rooms to the market. Meanwhile, the number of hotel rooms to be provided by the other 22 projects remains unclear. The future projects are mostly located in Tu Liem, Ba Dinh and Hoan Kiem districts. In general, five star hotels are mostly located in Tu Liem district, while three star and four star hotels are located in districts in the inner city.
CBRE thinks that in 2011, the market will have nearly 1200 hotel rooms from five new hotels, including two ones in the central area, Oriental Pearl and Hotel De Opera Hanoi, which may join the market in the first quarter of the year. Besides, there will be three hotels in the west of the city, namely Crowne Plaza West Hanoi, Grand Plaza Hanoi and Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower.
2011 will mark an important milestone in the hotel market with more high grade hotels in the newly developed western area joining the market. As such, with the new wave of establishing new hotels in the west, there will be two clear market segments. Business-class travellers will choose the new hotels in the west, while regular travellers will choose the hotels in the central areas.
Mr Richard Leech believes that the move will force operational hotels to upgrade their material facilities and services in order to better serve different classes of clients.
According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism VNAT, in 2010, Vietnam received five foreign tourists and 28 million domestic tourists and had a total earning of 96 trillion dong. Meanwhile, according to CBRE, in 2010, Hanoi received 8.62 million tourists, an increase of 11.5 percent in comparison with 2009. These included 1.23 million foreign tourists, a 20 percent from 2009.
Source: Dau tu
