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The BBC Television has covered cruise safety in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay. In the film footage Carmen Roberts reported that it has been almost a year since 12 people died on a tourist boat which sank in Ha Long Bay, which was voted as one of the world’s seven new natural wonders in 2011. The [...]
Saigontourist welcomed two international luxury cruise ships carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew in the northern province of Quang Ninh on February 9. The tourists, mostly from Hong Kong and China , explored popular tourism destinations in Quang Ninh such as Ha Long Bay, Long Tien Pagoda and Hon Gai market. They also had [...]
Sung Sot (Amazing), one of the largest caves in Ha Long Bay, has been selected as one of the world’s ten most beautiful caves by the Association of Tourism Offices and Brokers in the Czech Republic. According to the Association, Sung Sot cave is blessed with the natural beauty of stalactites and stalagmites that have created [...]
The People’s Committee of Quang Ninh Province has ordered that tour boats operating on Ha Long Bay be painted white in order to renew their image following the bay’s designation as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. Most boat operators, however, are opposed to the decision. Under the provincial order, 500 tour [...]
Several bear farms in northeastern Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long City still cater to South Korean tourists who buy fresh bile taken from live animals despite a clamp down. A tour bus takes tourists to the Dat Viet bear farm in Ha Long City on August 30, 2011. Bear farms still cater to Asian [...]
From late October 2011, Quang Ninh tourism is busy with international cruise voyages which continue to dock at Cai Lan and Hon Gai Ports. Together with tourist groups from Europe and the US, the number of tourists from newly-emerging markets in Asia to Ha Long City also saw significant growth that promises to bring a [...]
The Vietnamese business circle has geared up to prepare to grab the new opportunities to be brought when Ha Long Bay has been recognized as one of the seven new wonders of the world. Experts have urged management agencies to draw up long term development plan to effectively exploit the wonderful landscape. More travelers to [...]
This is an interview with Nguyen Xuan Thang, Secretary General of the World Federation of UNESCO Associations and Chairman of the Vietnam Federation of UNESCO Association, a representative of UNESCO, one of the most prestigious organizations in the world in selecting world heritage–about the just-finished new seven natural wonders of the world. In 2007, you [...]
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced receiving 3,188,596 votes via text messaging by 5.30 pm on October 26, supporting Ha Long Bay as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Ha Long Bay (Photo: SGGP) The Ministry and the Vietnam Journalist Association held a voting ceremony on October 26 to call [...]
Many staff members of the Vietnamese embassy and representative offices in the European Union along with Overseas Vietnamese and Vietnamese students gathered in Brussels on October 25 to vote for Ha Long Bay as one of seven new natural wonders of the world. The Vietnamese ambassador to Belgium, Pham Sanh Chau, said this was the [...]