VNN – September, 12/2021 – 08:50| Lê Hương

Though Sa Pa District in the northern province of Lào Cai has long lured tourists all year round due to its mild temperatures, spectacular mountains, beautiful forests and unique ethnic minorities, social distancing has now led to the vast majority of people staying home.

However, two innovative Sa Pa residents are now offering online tours of the classic Việt Nam destination.

Vũ Ngọc Hướng, 22, of the Giáy ethnic group, was the first to offer such tours in the region. Đọc tiếp Online tours take people to another Sa Pa →

20/06/2021    09:05 GMT+7 Vietnamnet

The Tra su cajuput forest in An Giang province. Photo: Thuy Linh

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued Decision 933/QD-TTg approving the tourism system planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2045, fostering tourism development and environment protection.

Accordingly, the planning must comply with the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and regulations on socio-economic development, sustainable marine economy, and tourism growth strategy until 2030.

The planning aims to achieve sustainable green tourism, ensuring tourism growth and the conservation and promotion of the values of natural and cultural resources, creating tourism products imbued with national identity, protecting the environment, and promoting the potential and advantages of tourism in each region.

At the same time, it must derive from practical demands, meet the requirements of the immediate and long-term tasks, overcome the shortcomings and inadequacies, and promote advantages, tourism potentials, and strengths of each region and locality.

Thereby, it is required to identify the basis of tourism development orientation for each region, powerhouse areas, national tourist areas, and others potential in regional planning. It also sets the directions for setting up the technical and specialized areas related to tourism sectors, the management of tourism activities as well as the mapping out of medium and long-term tourism development programs.

In order to implement the planning, it needs a connection between tourism and the infrastructure of transport, energy, environment, agriculture, and national information and communication.

Moreover, the planning must foresee development trends forecast, climate change, disasters, and global pandemics.

The planning will be executed based on the development of tourism products and market, promotion and advertising, tour operator creation and human resources training, the cooperation between sectors and localities, investment, among other measures.

Source: hanoitimes

childsafetourism.org

Hành động nhỏ, thay đổi lớn. Những sự lựa chọn chúng ta có thể tạo ra tác động đối với cuộc sống của trẻ em.

Trẻ em luôn dựa vào người lớn để phòng ngừa xâm hại. Dù ở bất cứ nơi đâu, chúng ta cũng luôn mang theo mình trách nhiệm này. Là những khách du lịch và lữ hành, chúng ta đều có thể giúp đỡ hoặc gây tổn hại đến những cộng đồng mà chúng ta thăm viếng. Hãy là khách du lịch, lữ hành an toàn với trẻ em.

ACTION 1 – Nếu bạn trông thấy hoặc nghi ngờ có vụ xâm hại trẻ em trong khi bạn đang đi du lịch thì hãy trình báo ngay lập tức

Đọc tiếp Hãy là khách du lịch, lữ hành an toàn với trẻ em →

mckinsey.com While domestic travel has kept the Vietnamese travel sector afloat, the industry needs to reinvent itself until international tourism resumes.

For most players in the travel industry, the idea of vacationers lounging on a beach thousands of miles from home or sailing the high seas seems like a distant memory. Globally, countries experienced a decline of 35 to 48 percent in tourism expenditures last year compared with 2019. Vietnam, with its ten-month international border closure, has not been exempted.

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By Nguyen Quy   March 16, 2021 | 03:45 pm GMT+7 VNExpressAn aerial view of Tam Coc-Bich Dong, a popular travel destination in Ninh Binh Province, northern Vietnam. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.

Vietnam finished in the bottom five of a global sustainable tourism ranking, placing 96th out of 99 economies, according to a Euromonitor International report.

Vietnam joined Morocco, Mauritius, India and Pakistan in the bottom five of the ranking compiled by British market research firm Euromonitor.

The country lagged far behind all its Southeast Asian neighbors like Laos (51), Myanmar (59), Cambodia (74), Thailand (76) and Malaysia (85). Indonesia took up the 92nd spot, followed by Singapore and the Philippines.

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15-03-2021 – 07:29 AM|

(NLĐO) – Thú rừng thui nằm lổn ngổn trên quày, chủ hàng vung dao chặt thịt chó mời chào du khách, dưới bến thuyền thanh niên tụ tập đánh bài, quán nhậu xập xình bia rượu…

Những tưởng sự trần trụi trên chỉ có ở nơi chốn xô bồ. Nhưng không, đấy là chùa Hương. Chùa Hương trong mùa hành hương mà vậy đấy.

Đánh bài trên đường vào chùa Hương. Ảnh: Ngô Nhung

Được xây dựng đã hơn 3 thế kỷ, chùa Hương với nhiều danh thắng và truyền thống tín ngưỡng đã trở thành nét văn hóa in sâu trong tâm linh của người Việt, đặc biệt là người dân các tỉnh phía Bắc. Lễ hội chùa Hương là một trong những lễ hội lớn nhất trong năm của Việt Nam. Ấy vậy mà từ lâu, những trò bán buôn đã làm vấy bẩn chốn này.

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Wednesday, 12 February 2020.Written by Paul Christiansen. Photos by Alberto Prieto.By (un)conventional standards, Saigon’s Geological Museum may warrant a score of 1.3/9, but if one considers it as a source of whimsy, it’s a solid 8.2/9.

For years, Saigoneer’s editorial staff has discussed visiting and writing about the Geological Museum (Bảo tàng Địa chất), but it never got done. I’ve lived here for half a decade, and when I moved to a new neighborhood a year ago my daily walk to the office took me past the museum; yet I still had never entered. Then, on a whim, one random Tuesday morning several weeks ago, I went. The result? I didn’t think I could love Saigon more than I already did, and yet…

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