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Visitors at Cu Chi Tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City welcomed 17 million visitors in the first six months of this year, including 4.2 million foreigners, up 10.1 percent year on year, according to the municipal Department of Tourism. The city earned 73 trillion VND (3.13 billion USD) from tourism in the first half of this year, a rise of 16.6 percent over the same period last year. In order to attract more tourists, in the last six months of this year, the department will continue implementing its plan to build new and diverse products. It will coordinate with outlying Cu Chi district to develop agricultural tourism in association with the national target programme to build new-style rural areas. Alongside, an ecotourism model in Thanh An commune of suburban Can Gio district will be formed, along with the completion of seven river tourism routes. The city will also build a strategy to develop meetings, incentives, conferences, and … [Read more...] about HCM City attracts 17 million visitors in H1

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Travel Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Travel | A Year in Paris That Transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Advertisement Supported by Footsteps As a college student, Jacqueline Bouvier spent her junior year in Paris, and the city became one of the greatest influences in her life. ByAnn Mah June 23, 2019 In August 1949, a 20-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier arrived in France and began a year that would change her life. Before her marriages to Jack and Aristotle, before the glamour and the tragedy, before she lived in the White House or worked at a publishing house, she was a college student boarding a ship to spend her junior year abroad in Paris. With her French name and heritage (one-eighth French from her father’s side), she was already predisposed to admiring France. But the academic year of 1949 to 1950 cemented her passion, allowing her … [Read more...] about A Year in Paris That Transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The record number of climbers on Mount Everest this season has left a cleanup crew grappling with how to clear away everything from abandoned tents to human waste that threatens drinking water. The world’s highest mountain has so much garbage climbers use it as signposts to help them navigate. But this year’s haul from an estimated 700 climbers, guides and porters on the mountain has been a shock to the ethnic Sherpas who worked on the government’s cleanup drive. Thirty entire tents were abandoned at Camp 4, the highest campsite before the summit. High winds have scattered their contents over already dangerous icy slopes. Human waste overflows and spills toward Base Camp where hundreds of people live during the season and use the melting snow for drinking water. Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. … [Read more...] about Abandoned tents, human waste piling up on Mount Everest

This month, Jet Linx, a private aviation company that began in Omaha, Nebraska in 1999, has spread its wings to the Northeast, opening its own Boston terminal at Hanscom Field in Bedford. Jet Linx’s steady 20-year expansion now includes 18 terminals, a success that Jamie Walker, president and CEO of Jet Linx, says is down to the company offering, “more than an 800 number.” “We saw a niche in the marketplace and that was for a more personal service,” Walker says of the company’s beginnings 20 years ago. “All our competitors have an 800 number, in addition they don’t have local planes or pilots, or a local terminal. [With Jet Linx] the number you call is a local Boston number. The staff is a local Boston team. The schedule and quoting is much more personal.” Before starting Jet Linx, Walker worked in sales and marketing in residential development in New York City. But, instead of starting a private jet company among the stiffest … [Read more...] about Jet Linx moves into Hanscom Field