HOI AN LISTED AMONG ASIA’S BEST CITIES TO VISIT | TRAVEL VIETNAM

BLUEBELL TOURS VIETNAM – Industry leading magazine Travel + Leisure’s Luxury Awards Asia Pacific featured Hoi An and its Hoiana Resort & Golf listed on its lists of best cities and resorts.

VIETNAM TRAVEL – In the Best Cities category, Bangkok, Thailand, secured the top position for the second consecutive year. Japan featured prominently with three cities in the top five, which are Osaka, Tokyo, and Kyoto. Hoi An, Vietnam, claimed the 6th spot, a position previously held by Hanoi, another Vietnamese city.

Last year’s Luxury Awards Asia Pacific featured Hanoi and Hue from Vietnam as top contenders, but in 2024 only Hoi An made the list.

Hoi An, situated on Vietnam’s central coast, is a UNESCO World Heritage site with a preserved historic Old Town intersected by canals. The town features Vietnamese, Chinese, and French architectural influences.

In the Best Integrated Resorts category, Hoi An’s Hoiana Resort & Golf secured 3rd place for the second consecutive year. Galaxy Macau took the top spot, followed by Crown Perth in Australia. Others in the top 5 Best Resorts are the Sands Resorts Macao and Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore.

The Travel + Leisure Luxury Awards Asia-Pacific is an annual event celebrating excellence in travel and hospitality across the Asia-Pacific region. Launched in 2023, the awards are determined by the votes of well-travelled readers, who evaluate a wide range of experiences including hotels, resorts, spas, and pools.

HOI AN STREET NAMED ONE OF WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL

Tran Phu Street in Hoi An, famous for its century-old houses and monthly lantern festival, has been named among the 71 most beautiful in the world by Architectural Digest.

“Once a highly prosperous and always-busy trading port active between the 15th and 19th centuries, Hoi An is a highly visited spot for quite a few reasons, especially during a monthly lantern festival held on Tran Phu Street,” the American magazine said.

The festival is held on the 14th and 15th days of the lunar month when all lights in town are switched off and locals light a candle and place it under a colorful paper lantern.

The kilometer-long Tran Phu Street used to be a busy boulevard during the French colonial period and is now home to Chinese-influenced pagodas and museums, eateries and souvenir shops.

Other streets in the list include the Old Town in France, Brunngasse in Switzerland, Setenil de las Bodegas in Spain, Aldama in Mexico, Jinli in China, and Tetsugaku No Michi in Japan.

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