Seminar aimed at increasing votes for Halong Bay

Ga Choi Islet

A seminar was held in the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 1 to find out ways to win more votes for Halong Bay to be recognized as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World

The seminar witnessed the huge participation of number of foreign diplomatic staff including ambassadors and counselors in Vietnam, Vietnamese and foreign tourists.

An official from the Foreign Ministry suggested the spread of information and promotion of the image of Halong Bay at major sport and music events, or on social networks, like facebook, twisters and youtube, and mobile phone systems can help to encourage people, specially students and public employees, to vote for Halong Bay.

The Deputy Director of Quang Ninh Television Station, Mai Vu Tuan, proposed increasing broadcasts of Halong Bay’s values on domestic radio and television programmes as well as on foreign radios and televisions, such as the Republic of Korea’s Kangwon television and China’s Guangxi television and radio, which have established cooperative ties with Vietnam.

Halong Bay needs to collect 60 million votes to become one of the new 7 wonders of the world.

The New Open World will announce the final list of the new 7 wonders of the world on November 11.

To vote for Ha Long Bay, please visit the website www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/vote.

Source: VOV News

It’s time to relax

By Phillip Cabrera

We had our final dinner with Project Vietnam Foundation (PVNF) Friday at a hotel restaurant in Hanoi. I got contact information from PVNF members and then we went our separate ways the next day. My class’s destination was Halong Bay. This entire trip has been one big highlight reel.

The bus ride to Halong Bay took three hours from Hanoi. We immediately boarded our private boat – an entire boat to ourselves for the night. It was time to relax and enjoy the scenery of what I consider to be one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. I would come to Halong Bay for a honeymoon or would travel here with that special someone.

We went cave exploring and saw the Surprise Cave, which could easily have been mistaken for an Indiana Jones movie set. A great part for me while exploring the caves was the exercise. We hiked almost vertically to get to the entrances of the cave. The next morning, some of my classmates and I hiked a steep incline to the top of a lookout point. Other adventures included me putting my body to good use and setting off a sweet cannonball off the boat into the bay. The water was so cold that I didn’t want to stay in long, but that jump made it worth it. I swam with my classmate Keith, while my classmates Johnny and Lucio shot photos of our sweet dives. The rest of the class kayaked around the bay. Then we had dinner and relaxed for the rest of the night.

Vote for Halong Bay at Tourism centers

Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has sent  official letters to the travel companies, hotels, tourism training schools to intensify the voting campaign for Halong Bay to become the world’s natural wonders with a slogan: “Each worker in the tourism industry one vote for Halong Bay”, “Each tourist one vote for Halong Bay”.

It is known that funding for this campaign is one billion VND. Ballots will be printed in four languages: Vietnamese, English, French, Chinese (one side is the image of Ha Long Bay, the back side is the slogan and voting instructions) and be issued to the following subjects: tourism enterprises; domestic tourist sites; Embassies and Representatives of international organizations in Vietnam; in the internal or overseas tourism events; representative networks of Vietnam Airlines and other airlines which fly to Vietnam.
 
In April, VNAT is going to carry on the voting campaign in major tourism centers around the country such as Ha Long, Hanoi, Quang Binh, Hue, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho …

Source: Hanoimoi, QN News