Around 400 hotels and restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City will join an ambitious campaign to adopt smoking-free areas. Smoking is a disaster to community health Tran Lam Lan Huong, Director of the Health Education and Communication Centre said currently most of local restaurants were overcrowded and a majority of male customers smoked at restaurants, begging the question how these areas could be established while maintaining current occupancy levels. The city will apply a smoking-free zone model at 400 restaurants and hotels in districts 1, 3 and 5 initially. The campaign is expected to see from 30 to 70% of local hotels and restaurants to introduce smoke-free areas. Hotels and restaurants will display stickers and posters advising customers not to smoke in different languages. Staff are required to persuade customers to hold parties without smoking. Vietnam now has some 15.3 million adults who are smokers, in which, men account for 47.4% and women 1.4%. According to the … [Read more...] about HCM City hotels, restaurants adopt ambitious anti-smoking campaign
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Guests flee HCM City hotel fire
Dozens of guests fled from a HCM City hotel in terror on January 5 morning after a mobile phone exploded and caused fire. At 6:45am, local residents discovered that black smoke was pouring out of a second-floor window of Van An 2 Hotel on Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street. The manager ran to each room to inform the guests. Many guests left their belongings behind in order to escape the hotel quickly. Van An 2 Hotel Guests run to the street Hotel staff tried to put out the fire to no avail. Six fire trucks and 32 fire fighters were sent to the site later and put the fire under control in 30 minutes. No one was hurt but the fire destroyed most of the guests' belongings. The window of room 201 Initial investigation showed that a mobile phone was charging in room 201 and exploded. The fire spread to the mattress before covering the whole room. … [Read more...] about Guests flee HCM City hotel fire
HCM City hotels hit by rising competition
Both occupancy rate and revenue per available room (RevPAR) of hotels in HCM City fell slightly in the third quarter due to increase in room numbers and lower demand. Both occupancy rate and revenue per available room (RevPAR) of hotels in HCM City fell slightly in the third quarter due to increase in room numbers and lower demand. According to a survey by property services provider Savills Vietnam, the average occupancy was 60 per cent, down 2 per cent from the previous quarter and 5 per cent year-on-year. The average room rate (ARR) was at VND1.75 million (US$83)/room/ night, a slide of 1 per cent and 6 per cent and the lowest rate in the last four years. RevPAR for all three grades decreased, with the three-star segment seeing the sharpest drop of 8 per cent quarter-on-quarter, followed by 6 per cent for the four-star segment, and 2 per cent for five-star. One new four-star hotel and 95 additional rooms in an existing three-star hotel in District 1 entered the … [Read more...] about HCM City hotels hit by rising competition
HCM City increases land prices under new regulation
Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The coefficient used for land price adjustments, called the K coefficient, will increase by 0.1 in each circumstance, according to a regulation included in a decision by the HCM City People’s Committee. It has taken effect since yesterday. The K coefficient will be 1.1 for households or individuals recognised by the State to have the right to use residential land, and the right to change the purpose of land-use from non- residential land to residential. The K coefficient for land used for rent will be divided into two groups and five regions, based on the purpose of land use. The first group covers use for business services, financial services, restaurants, hotels and houses for rent. The second group covers the building of industrial and sub-industrial zones, and public works for business purposes. The K coefficient has increased by 0.1 compared with the previous regulation. The new coefficient will range from 1.1 to 2.1 Region 1 … [Read more...] about HCM City increases land prices under new regulation
Chinese top foreign arrivals in HCM City
Chinese have for the first time become the largest number of international visitors to arrive in HCM City, according to the city Department of Tourism. Foreign tourists in HCM City — VNS Photo Their number soared to 600,000 last year, a year-on-year increase of 50 percent. In 2016 they had been the third largest group, Lã Quốc Khánh, deputy director of the department, said. Chinese visitor profiles have changed, requiring his department to do market and product research to help travel firms tap this growing market segment, he said. The city would then develop appropriate tourism products to serve Chinese tourists, he said. Nguyễn Quốc Kỳ, general director of giant tour operator Vietravel, said tourism authorities should rearrange their priority markets for running promotion and marketing programs in 2018-20. China should be a priority market, followed by Northeast Asian and Southeast Asian countries, he said. “The city will see a … [Read more...] about Chinese top foreign arrivals in HCM City