
Ho Chi Minh City looks to cash in on new travel trends
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) expects to fully exploit bleisure travel - a novel type of tourism combining business travel with leisure time
Following the fatal incident in La Gi town causing four travelers dead, two others missing and many people injured, Binh Thuan province Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism today sent a dispatch to relevant agencies asking them to prevent people from sea bathing amid bad weather.
The Department of Tourism in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday announced that the city welcomed nearly 100,000 international travellers out of 221,000 visitors arriving in the city in Tet holiday (the Lunar New Year), a year-on-year increase of 15 percent.