Ho Chi Minh City considers resuming operations of electric tourist vehicles
Ho Chi Minh City 13:09 29/08/2025Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City are considering reinstating four-wheeled electric tourist vehicles, which were suspended on July 1, 2025.
Ho Chi Minh City launches tourism stimulus to draw visitors
Ho Chi Minh City 07:19 21/08/2025Ho Chi Minh City is ramping up efforts to boost its tourism sector with a series of promotional programs and activities targeting both international and local travelers.
Ho Chi Minh City clamps down on laughing gas, narcotics, prostitution at Bui Vien Walking Street
Ho Chi Minh City 11:47 13/08/2025Authorities in Ben Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, have taken decisive actions to address security and social order violations along Bui Vien Walking Street, focusing on the illegal trade of laughing gas, narcotics use, and prostitution.
Historic site in Vietnam’s Dak Lak defaced with inappropriate writings, drawings
Travel 13:48 10/08/2025Nhan Tower, a national historic site in Dak Lak Province, has been defaced with inappropriate writings and drawings by irresponsible visitors, causing public discomfort and concern, as reported by a reader named Le Tan Thoi to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
Two Vietnamese tourists die at sea in Greece amid gale-force winds
Vietnam News 10:10 10/08/2025Two Vietnamese tourists died at sea in Greece on Friday, the coastguard said, as gale-force winds confined many ferries to port, disrupting travel for tens of thousands of summer travellers, and also sparked fires.
Vietnam welcomes 12.2 million int’l tourists in January-July
Travel 14:16 07/08/2025International tourist arrivals in Vietnam reached 12.2 million between January and July, up 22.5 percent year on year, surpassing the figure recorded in 2019, widely considered to be the golden period of Vietnamese tourism, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism.
FDI into Vietnam surges in January-July
Economy 12:15 07/08/2025Total registered foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam in January-July reached US$24.09 billion, rising 27.3 percent over the same period last year, according to a report released by the General Statistics Office under the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday.
Ho Chi Minh City launches first-ever global traveler barometer
Ho Chi Minh City 19:00 30/07/2025The Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Promotion Center, under the municipal Department of Tourism, has partnered with The Outbox Company to launch the HCMC Global Traveler Barometer, a system designed to monitor and analyze data on international visitors to Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City welcomes nearly 700,000 int’l visitors in 1st month of administrative merger
Travel 10:13 27/07/2025Ho Chi Minh City has welcomed 695,930 international arrivals so far this month, surging 75.3 percent year on year, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
Street vendor in Da Nang summoned for allegedly overcharging Lao tourists
Travel 13:36 15/07/2025After reports circulated on social media and in various newspapers about a street food vendor on Duong Dinh Nghe Street in Da Nang City, central Vietnam allegedly overcharging six Lao tourists, authorities in An Hai Ward conducted an inspection and required the vendor to show up at the ward office at 10:00 am on Wednesday.
Vietnam’s beach tourism attracts visitors from emerging markets
Travel 11:36 13/07/2025Vietnam is among the countries growing increasingly attractive to tourists from emerging markets, becoming a popular travel destination, especially for beach tourism, according to a recent report by advertising technology company Yango Ads.
