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The Anam Group launches the iconic Axi Plaza in Vietnam

May 2, 2024386 Views

The Anam Group has inaugurated a striking multi-functional convention centre, Axi Plaza in Vietnam. With a design inspired by the country’s ubiquitous coracle boat, it is located at a spectacular beachfront space, overlooking Long Beach on the scenic Cam Ranh peninsula. A host of remarkable facilities include a vast state-of-the-art conference hall, a 360-degree rooftop venue, a stunning outdoor beachfront event space, and about 10,000 sqm dedicated to shopping and dining outlets. The largest multipurpose convention centre in the region, Axi Plaza marks The Anam Group’s third major development, following the launch of luxurious resorts The Anam Cam Ranh and The Anam Mui Ne in 2017 and 2023, respectively. Adjacent to 12-hectare The Anam Cam Ranh with 213 rooms, suites and villas,...

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Oldest evidence of ‘curry’ outside of India discovered

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July 26, 2023854 Views

Curry may have landed in Southeast Asia 2000 years ago Spices found on stone tools shed light on ancient global trade network Even after 2000 years, the stone slab still smelled of nutmeg. Unearthed in an ancient village in southern Vietnam, the cookware—roughly the size and shape of an anvil—was likely used to grind the spice, along with other ingredients familiar in today’s curries. The discovery, reported today in Science Advances, marks the earliest known example of spice processing in mainland Southeast Asia. It also suggests that visitors from India and Indonesia may have introduced their culinary traditions to the region millennia ago. Ancient starch grains of ginger (Zingiber officinale), cinnamon (Cinnamomum sp.) and nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) were identified on the s...

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Wafaifo to redefine Central Vietnam’s food & beverage offering

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July 12, 2023851 Views

Working together for the first time, Andrew Joyce of B&B Ideas Group and Le Ha Hoang of ShapeUs Studio, are creating ambitious food, drink and ambience experiences at the new Wafaifo Resort, Hoi An A project is underway to redefine preconceived ideas about Vietnamese food, drink and hospitality in central Vietnam’s heritage city of Hoi An. Owners of the Wafaifo Resort, Hoi An, which is under construction, have appointed former international celebrity chef and food and beverage concept creator Andrew Joyce of B&B Ideas Group, and international Vietnamese designer Le Ha Hoang, of Shape Us, to create a unique series of contemporary food, beverage and lifestyle experiences for the 134-key boutique urban resort. “The creative brief is to deliver a contemporary Vietnamese tak...

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Anam Mui Ne recognised among world’s top boutique independent resorts

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May 23, 2023824 Views

The Anam Mui Ne, a remarkable resort with a design inspired by the Indochine era, has joined an exclusive selection of the globe’s leading boutique independent luxury properties – the Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) portfolio. The resort, which opened in January this year on the Mui Ne beach, is the first Vietnamese property to join SLH, deemed the most desirable community of independently minded travellers and independently spirited hotels in the world. Hotels must undergo a stringent vetting process and conform to the highest standards of luxury and guest wellbeing before being accepted into the SLH’s characterful collection of intimate spaces in unusual places. Headquartered in London with offices worldwide, SLH represents 520 hotels in more than 90 countries th...

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Vietnam gets a new urban resort and hospitality company

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December 16, 2022865 Views

A new international hospitality brand and hotel called Wafaifo has been launched in central Vietnam. The company will open the 134-key lifestyle resort, the Wafaifo Resort Hoi An, in Q1 2024 as part of a strategic plan that includes a new mall, a hospitality asset management service, and other tourism-related projects. The new company is based in Hoi An. Its name, Wafaifo, derives from “wa” from water, and “faifo”, the historical name of Hoi An. Wafaifo intends to offer hospitality project consultancy across Indochina, drawing on the hotel industry expertise of its co-founders, Managing Director, Pieter van der Hoeven, and Commercial Director, Mikkel Krantz. Van der Hoeven and Krantz will work to establish the Wafaifo brand, its flagship urban resort in Hoi An, and extend awa...

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The Mekong Tourism Forum is back

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August 15, 20221153 Views

Vietnam will host face-to-face gathering of the famous forum in Quang Nam in October The Mekong Tourism Forum 2022 will return as a face-to-face event 9-14 October at Hoiana Resort & Golf (Hoiana), Quang Nam province, adjacent to Hoi An city, in central Vietnam. It will be the first in-person gathering of the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) destinations since 2019. With the theme “Rebuild Tourism, Rebound with Resilience,” the forum in Quang Nam will be the first interactive event convening public- and private-sector tourism leaders and experts in the Mekong region since COVID-19 disrupted the travel industry. “With a lot of rebuilding and catching up to do, the 2022 Mekong Tourism Forum aims to drive real action and create a more resilient, inclusive, sustainable ...

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Vietjet to fly direct from Bengaluru to three cities in Vietnam

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July 14, 20221177 Views

Airlines expands further in India, planning for many new routes Following its new international routes connecting key Indian cities to Vietnam, Vietjet now reveals a bigger network growth and implementation plan for the India market. The new flight services are planned to link Bengaluru to Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), three of Vietnam's most well-known business and tourism cities. The new routes are set to operate within the fourth quarter of 2022. The airline also plans to open new direct services to other major Indian cities by the year-end. The announcement comes on the heels of the airline’s recent launch of direct routes connecting New Delhi, Mumbai to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and its soon-to-launch routes linking Mumbai and New Delhi with Phu Quoc islan...

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‘Don’t look down’: Vietnam glass-bottomed bridge targets thrill-seekers

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May 30, 2022620 Views

A mountain resort in Vietnam has opened a bridge with a bottom made of glass over a gorge 150 metres (492.13 ft) below to attract thrill-seeking tourists, the third such bridge in the Southeast Asian country. The Bach Long suspension bridge, which translates as "White Dragon", is in Son La province, northwest of the capital, Hanoi, and bordering Laos. "I dared not look down as I am afraid of heights," said one visitor, Vi Thi Thu, 22, who ventured onto the bridge after attending Saturday's opening ceremony, which included dragon dancing and ribbon cutting. An aerial view of the Bach Long glass bridge at Moc Chau district in Son La province, Vietnam, May 28, 2022. REUTERS/Minh Nguyen The reinforced glass used for the bridge has three layers, each 40mm thick, and can hold up to...

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Illegal loggers in Vietnam turn jungle tour guides

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April 26, 2022920 Views

Vietnamese logger turned jungle tour guide Ngoc Anh knows the value of trees. For years he chopped them down illegally to sell as timber, often working with others to carry 100-kg logs out of a rapidly thinning forest. But as extreme rainfall and floods increasingly devastated his community in the central province of Quang Binh, the 36-year-old read up on the ongoing climate and nature crises and turned instead to tourism and conservation. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, 36, who was an illegal logger turned forest protector poses at Phong Nha National Park, Quang Binh province, Vietnam, April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hoang Trung Now, Ngoc Anh is one of 250 former loggers trained by an adventure tourism company to lead mostly foreign tourists through jungles and into some of the world's largest cave ...

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Vietnam eyes full reopening to tourists from next month

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February 15, 2022888 Views

Vietnam's tourism ministry on Tuesday proposed a full reopening of the country to foreign visitors and a lifting of nearly all travel restrictions from March 15, three months earlier than planned. The proposal, which will be submitted to the prime minister for approval, follows similar reopening steps taken by other Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and the Philippines, where the Omicron COVID-19 variant has caused a recent spike in new infections, but fewer hospitalisations and deaths than previous variants. FILE PHOTO: A sunset is seen in a resort after in Phu Quoc island, Vietnam. REUTERS/James Pearson The proposal includes maintaining a one-day quarantine requirement for visitors plus requiring negative COVID-19 tests before departure and on arrival. Vietnam announce...