The HCM City Department of Culture and Sports has sent the municipal People’s Committee a proposal for street arts performances on Nguyễn Huệ pedestrian street in District 1 for 2022-2025 period, starting this month.
Việt Nam’s retail sales of goods and services in July are estimated at VNĐ486 trillion (US$20.8 billion), up 2.4 per cent month-on-month, and 42.6 per cent year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has sent a dispatch to ministers, heads of ministry-level agencies and chairmen of the People’s Committees of centrally-run provinces and cities, asking for strengthened efforts in the management of prices of essential goods and services.
The airline’s air transport revenue and its consolidated revenue reached over VNĐ14.69 trillion and VNĐ16.11 trillion respectively in the first six months this year.
Lê Quốc Vinh, media expert and chairman of the Lê Bros Company, speaks to the Thế giới&Việt Nam (The World&Việt Nam) newspaper about creating more attractive tourism products and tourism promotion activities to better compete with other Southeast Asian countries.
The Immigration Department (under the Ministry of Public Security) said it will continue to issue the new navy blue-coloured passport forms (the version with electronic chips), amid confusion over Germany's provisional suspension of visas on these new passports.
Domestic tourism continues to lead the way, with HCM City remaining the top destination for local travel in 2022, according to a study, ‘Summer Travel Trends,’ released by online digital travel platform Agoda.
Despite improvement seen in the first quarter of the year, the pace of international travel recovery remains slow since mid-March when Việt Nam reopened its borders to international tourism, according to the Việt Nam Tourism Association.
The Director of Hà Nội's Department of Tourism Đặng Hương Giang talked to Tin tức (News) newspaper about measures to promote sustainable tourism activities in the city.
Vietnam News Agency talks to Đặng Tấn Thành, deputy chairman of Lý Sơn District People’s Committee, on the locality’s resolve to promote tourism as one of its spearhead economic activities.
Like all aspiring globetrotters, I dream of visiting every country in the world, including the remotest ones, and experiencing the stupendous cultural and geographic diversity that this would entail.
Kylin and dragon dances will be performed starting in July in HCM City’s District 5 twice a month to serve domestic and foreign visitors, according to the District 5 People’s Committee.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) keeps this year’s growth forecast for Việt Nam at 6.5 per cent in 2022 and 6.7 per cent in 2023 as released in the April 2022 Asian Development Outlook (ADO).
The southern coastal province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu has approved a project for eco-tourism, resorts and entertainment at the province’s protected forests from now until 2030 and a project for eco-tourism, resorts and entertainment at Bình Châu- Phước Bửu Nature Reserve in the province’s Xuyên Mộc District.
The seat occupation ratio on domestic routes in June 2022 of all local airlines reached between 85 per cent and 87 per cent, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of Việt Nam (CAAV).
Currently, Việt Nam ranks 15th among countries exporting rice to the UK, making up a modest 0.42 per cent of the total import turnover to this country. That means the door is wide open for Vietnamese rice in the market.
Actions must be taken to reduce the number of delayed and cancelled flights while the infrastructure remained limited amid the booming of air travel in post-pandemic period.