Tourism

The government’s third annual River Festival in Steung Treng province next weekend will form part of a strategy to attract eco-tourism investment to provinces in the northeast of the country, officials have said. Kong Sophearak, director of the Statistics Department at the Ministry of Tourism, told ...

Cambodia Angkor Air launched what it claimed to be the country’s first domestic air cargo service on March 16, using the existing capacity of its commercial passenger flights to fill the growing demand for air shipments. The new service, called Angkor Express Go, will transport ...

Home-stay services are becoming popular across Vietnam, with many people turning their houses into tourist dwellings to welcome foreign visitors. Tran Thanh Hung, 45, of the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, has spent 800 million dong (Bt1.24 million) to upgrade and expand his house. Located ...

Đà Nẵng maintained its status as the most competitive locality in the country, topping the Provincial Competitiveness Index 2016 for the fourth consecutive year and seventh year at the top position since the rank was announced. The annual report, the 12th of is kind so ...

Government officials are confident that the Intergovernmental Tenth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia currently place in Vientiane will help to spur the development of Laos’ transport network. The comment was made by Deputy Prime Minister Somdy Duangdy at the forum’s opening ceremony on ...

The central province of Quảng Nam is struggling to recruit doctors for public hospitals and clinics because of low pay and tough working conditions. At the General Hospital in the tourist hotspot of Hội An City, there are not enough doctors to serve local patients, ...

The northwestern province of Điện Biên should capitalise on its advantages to develop tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân told provincial officials on March 13. Lauding local socio-economic achievements, the top legislator, who is visiting some northwestern provinces, told Điện Biên to use ...

South Korean start-up carrier KAIR Airlines has announced that it has selected an A320 to launch its new low-cost operation, with the firm ordering eight A320ceo aircraft. The new airline will be based in Cheongju in central South Korea and will focus primarily on services ...

Laos put its tourism products in the spotlight at the world’s largest trade fair, the ITB (Internationale Tourismus Börse), held in Berlin, Germany, from March 8-12. According to the Tourism Marketing Promotion Department of the Information, Culture and Tourism Ministry, Laos was one of 187 ...

The Unique Tour offered to visitors to Luang Prabang was awarded a special prize on Wednesday by the ASEAN-Japan Centre at a ceremony held in Japan. An official at the centre, Ms Junko Nukiyama, reported on March 9 via social media that Laos was one of ...