Vietnam

Approved in 2015 by the National Assembly of Vietnam, with construction beginning in 2021, Long Thanh International Airport, which will serve Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), will finally open its doors on December 1st, 2026. Located 40 km east of the southern Vietnamese metropolis, the new hub will gradually become the main international gateway to Ho...

The ASEAN Tourism Forum was held at the end of January in Cebu, in the province of Central Visayas. The country's second most populous city, with 965,000 inhabitants and some 2.5 million in its metropolitan area, Cebu is already a heavyweight in Philippine tourism. It receives an average of two million international tourists, while...

It's finally a done deal: since 15 August 2025, citizens of twelve additional European countries have been able to enter Vietnam using just their passport. However, the passport must be valid for more than 6 months from the date of entry. This is a further opening-up of the country, which is now...

Good news after a decade of waiting. The new Long Than mega-airport serving Ho Chi Minh City and the surrounding region is nearing completion. The hub, 40 km from the old Saigon, will officially open its doors on 19 December 2025. The transfer of flights should begin in the first few months of 2026, once the...

It was the little low-cost airline that everyone in Vietnam watched with varying degrees of attention. But in just a few years, Vietjet has become the country's leading airline in terms of passenger numbers. In 2024, the company carried more than 25.9 million passengers on its 145 routes (44 domestic and...

Fairmont is expanding its footprint in Asia this year. The Accor group's luxury brand, which is present in several Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, as well as in Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta and Manila, will be adding several key destinations on the continent to its list of addresses. Mumbai in particular, from next April, when the brand will...

National carrier Vietnam Airlines is strengthening its connectivity with China. The airline has just announced the launch on 30 March of five weekly frequencies between Ho Chi Minh City and the latest airport to serve Beijing, Daxing International Airport (code PKX). The airline will operate a two-class Airbus A321 on this route...

More than 470 million visitors to the Marina Bay Sands complex in Singapore since it opened in 2010. A hotel that is often fully booked, despite its 2,561 rooms and suites. As are its convention facilities, with more than 1,750 MICE events organised over the last 15 years. The...

The inauguration of the first metro line in Ho Chi Minh City on 22 December marks the end of a veritable saga. Introduced as part of an initial urban transport plan for this metropolis of more than 5 million inhabitants, the construction of the metro took a long time. The revision of the plan in 2007 and the...

In a press release issued on Saturday 30 November, the Vietnamese parliament announced the construction of the country's first high-speed railway line on the north-south route between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Construction work will start in 2027, with entry into service scheduled for 2035. The estimated cost is 67 billion...

Vietnam Airlines continues to expand steadily in ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The Vietnamese national carrier is also continuing to strengthen its position in Europe. On 17 June, the Skyteam alliance member airline launched its first flights to the Philippines. Flights depart from both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

The Hilton group will be signing a number of firsts in the third quarter of this year, with the arrival this summer of its first hotels in Nepal, Laos and East Timor. From July onwards, business travellers to Kathmandu will find a 173-room Hilton hotel designed for corporate meetings, with...

At the last ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) tourism trade fair, tourism ministers, hoteliers and tour operators regularly voiced one criticism: the lack of air capacity and connectivity. This is a factor that affects flight prices and the ease with which travellers can...

Bamboo Airways launched its flights to Vietnam in 2019 with great fanfare. With the promise of becoming a serious competitor to the national carrier Vietnam Airlines. 4 years later, the dream has been shattered by the realities of an Asian air transport industry that is still finding its feet since the Covid crisis. The Asian recovery is confirmed...

Like the world's major cities, Vietnam's largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, will in future have two airports: the current one at Tan Son Nhat, which has been in service since the French era, and the future Long Thanh International airport 40 km to the east of the city. Except that until the happy day of...

Vietnam Airlines' Sky Sofa is a new service which came into effect with the introduction of the summer timetable. The Sky Sofa package includes the purchase of two additional seats. Passengers can therefore enjoy a private row in economy class. They can also use the three seats allocated to them as a couchette. The service is available for...

Vietnam was one of the first Asian countries to lift Covid restrictions on international visitors. The idea was that by 2022, the country would be able to attract between 5 and 6 million travellers after two years of being closed to the outside world. In vain: last year, Vietnam only welcomed 3.36 million visitors...

Following the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 10 February between Singapore Airlines and Vietnam Airlines, business travellers can look forward to improved connections between the two countries, particularly from the Singapore Changi hub. As a first step, the two carriers will explore code-share opportunities to facilitate better connections between the two...

Thai Airways International continues to strengthen its international network. The Thai airline offers flights in Europe to seven destinations, having decided to discontinue its services from Brussels. From Paris CDG, the airline offers a daily flight by Boeing 777-300ER or Airbus A350-900XWB. Frankfurt and London with two daily flights to Bangkok...

The airline capacity analysis website OAG has been confirming this for some weeks now: South-East Asia is now the fastest-growing region for air transport in terms of the number of seats year on year. If we look at the first week of September 2022 compared with 2021, the number of seats...