Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, central ancient Hoi An Town and a number of local hotels and resorts have been voted among the best Asian holiday destinations and hotels by readers of the Hong Kong-based website Smart Travel Asia.

It's the most important meal of the day, apparently. But for a lot of travellers, breakfast is also the meal most fraught with danger.

Roadside stalls in Ho Chi Minh City offer a wide variety of dining options, including the small cakes known as banh khot and banh can.

In terms of the wine industry, VINE Wine Boutique Bar & Café quite literally put Hanoi on the map, while also raising the bar for wining and dining in the capital city.

Nearly 50 international airways and Vietnam’s top ten travel firms attended a conference to promote tourism in the ancient capital of Hue on August 23 in Hue City, Thua Thien-Hue province.

Vietnam is becoming one of the hottest tourist spots for Australian visitors this winter, said Julie Stewart, Manager of Highpoint Flight Centre.

Hotel menus can quickly go stale, so a luxury resort in Vietnam has come up with a unique solution: ask the guests what they want to eat, every day.

The HCM City-based Vietbooks Corporation and its partners have launched a series of chain stores nationwide offering the latest Vietnamese guide-books, maps and postcards.

Since last month, tour operators in HCMC have been introducing tours to Phu Yen province to stay in the five-star Cendeluxe Hotel or the newly opened Tuy Hoa luxury hotel.

The historic city of Hue in a traditional cyclo.