Kenya Airways plans to launch its first services to North America, South America and Australia by 2017, making it one of the few carriers to serve every inhabited continent. While these three continents will give Africa’s currently fifth-largest airline by seats a global presence, its future is pegged on Asia, with the carrier over the [...]

Austravel has a twin-centre trip to New South Wales in the southern spring for £1,295 per person, including Vietnam Airlines flights from Gatwick via Ho Chi Minh City for travel on either 31 October or 3 November. The deal includes four nights at the Cambridge Hotel in Sydney and five nights on a self-drive tour [...]

A GRANDMOTHER will dodge landmines, battle heat exhaustion and push herself to her physical limit when she cycles 250 miles through south-east Asia for charity. Gillian Haimes’ journey will begin in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, travel through the Mekong Valley and end at the Angor Wat temple in Cambodia. [...]

Williamstown, MA — (SBWIRE) — 04/09/2012 — Travel and tourism in Vietnam contributed about XX% to the national GDP in 2011, which indicates a significant increase from the XX% it contributed in 2010. Travel and tourism also accounted for XX% of the country’s total employment in 2011. Vietnam’s tourist volume, which includes inbound, domestic [...]

Destination Marketing: Positioning of Ho Chi Minh City as a MICE Destination.By Dietmar Kielnhofer Ph.DThursday, 5th April 2012 The following document outlines in broad terms a tourism policy to complement Ho Chi Min City’s existing tourism strategy; additionally, to engender a dynamic, sustainable brand associated with vibrancy, cultural diversity, colonial history and excellent public service [...]

At least this time Qantas’s Alan Joyce appears to have a cogent strategy. His plan for a modest push into greater China with Jetstar represents a logical step for Qantas’s budget offshoot Jetstar to operate in conjunction with its established Jetstar Asia in Singapore, Jetstar Pacific in Vietnam and the soon to be launched Jetstar [...]

Greyhounds racing via Shutterstock We often boast about how superior and intelligent we are in the animal kingdom, assigning ourselves god-player domain status over all things living. So, we destroy, abuse and torture nature and all other life-forms. Intelligent? ‘Man’s best friend’ has suffered at our hands for centuries, being domesticated forcibly, broken from the [...]

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By Jenny Coad PUBLISHED:14:47 EST, 23 March 2012 | UPDATED:15:25 EST, 23 March 2012 Vietnam is tricky to pin down. It is exotic, but austere in some parts and playful in others. And it is impossible to ignore the war that has left an indelible mark on American history. People say that it is like [...]

By Jenny Coad PUBLISHED:14:47 EST, 23 March 2012 | UPDATED:15:25 EST, 23 March 2012 Vietnam is tricky to pin down. It is exotic, but austere in some parts and playful in others. And it is impossible to ignore the war that has left an indelible mark on American history. People say that it is like [...]