The year-end tourist season and New Year are approaching; it’s also a busy time to entice holiday-makers to buy tour packages, especially outbound tours. 

 Authorities of Hoi An Town have issued a new regulation permitting permanent residents without foreign spouses to provide homestay service for tourists.

 Hundreds of city inhabitants over the weekend flocked to Bach Dang Wharf in District 1, HCMC to experience the first water bus route which was officially put into service on November 25 after more than five months of technical test run.

Hanoi and HCMC have been named among the world’s 100 best food destinations voted by 20,000 food journalists and restaurant critics in a survey conducted by Caterwings, the U.K-based site that offers online food ordering services in Europe.

 Authorities in Ha Long City plan to develop the ancient floating villages on Ha Long Bay into a tourist magnet.

 Vietnam welcomed 11.6 million foreign tourist arrivals in the first 11 months of this year, up 27 percent against the same period last year. 

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia has received requests for support from around 50 Vietnamese tourists who are stuck in Bali, Indonesia, due to volcanic eruption, of whom 30 have left Bali safely by land.

 At least 40 Vietnamese tourists are still stranded in Bali, according to the latest report by Viet Nam Embassy in Indonesia.

 Wind turbines in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu have created a breathtaking landscape of clouds and sea, attracting a large number of tourists to the locality at weekend.

 The People’s Committee of HoanKiem district has prepared a draft decree on allowing businesses in the Old Quarter, around Hoan Kiem Lake and some surrounding areas to stay open until 2am.

 The Government will spend over VND30 trillion (US$1.3 billion) in tourism infrastructure development in the 2016-20 period, according to a target programme approved recently.

 Travel firms have proposed the Government to simplify the visa procedures for international tourists by issuing visa-on-arrival or e-visa to make the country more attractive to foreign guests.

 An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowers of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, and the unique cultural values of the province’s local ethnic people is taking place in Dong Van district.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia has issued travel warning for Vietnamese tourists with intention to visit resort island of Bali as Indonesian authority has raised the alert for Mount Agung eruption to the highest level.

 Hanoi in cold days is the best time you can enjoy many famous dishes.

 Prime Minister has recently approved a program on development of tourism infrastructure in the period 2016 – 2020 to help the tourism industry become a key economic sector.

 An Australian fam-trip delegation is surveying Vietnam’s tourism to sound out business prospects and work with potential local partners over measures to promote travel between the two nations.

 Ben Tre has enormous potentials in not only agriculture but also tourism. Making full use of the favourable ecosystem, Ben Tre tourism has been developing in a more professional and sustainable manner, making it the local spearhead economic sector.

 The Viet Nam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) agreed to promote smart tourism in the country.

 Those having a chance to take a trip to the central province of Quang Nam should make a journey to Kim Bong traditional wood carving village in Cam Kim Commune on the opposite side of the ancient town of Hoi An.