The Hoi An Riverside Resort & Spa has just won awards for Best Superior Hotel and Best Family Hotel from the Hotel Club, a leading provider of online hotel reservation services. It beat 80,000 rivals from around the world to be recognized as one of top 27 resorts. To celebrate these awards, the Hoi An Riverside is giving a free candle-light dinner to all in-house guest in September, 2007.

Located on Cua Dai beach and surrounded by lush green rice fields, the Hoi An Riverside Resort & Spa blends effortlessly into its natural beauty. Leave your cares behind the moment you walk through the gate and treat yourself to heaven on earth with their professionally trained staff. The Hoi An Riverside Resort & Spa – your private paradise!

The 5 Star Express Train is now operating the Saigon-Nha Trang-Saigon Route both day and night. The 2 storey train has 4 carriages including Business Class, 5-Star Club, Deluxe and Standard classes, with restaurant, bar, shops, massage carriage and conference room for guests’ convenience.

The day train runs daily from Saigon to Nha Trang with a stop at Muong Man, just 15 minutes from Phan Thiet.. Comprised of two luxury sleeping carriages with broadcast televisions, the night train brings privacy and comfort to passengers for the journey to Nha Trang.

The central coastal city of Nha Trang is well known for its beautiful beaches, and its bay is regarded as one of the most beautiful bays in the world. With convenient daily schedules in the morning and at night, the beauty of Nha Trang is now more easily experienced with the 5 Star Express Train.

This September saw the opening of the Mai Chau Lodge, the newest hotel in North-west Vietnam. Hidden away from the city, the hotel is an oasis of peace lying 150 meters above sea level where culture meets natural wonders.

The Mai Chau Lodge offers 16 deluxe rooms and one junior suite with the choice of mountain or lake views. Two restaurants with an explosion of taste and refinement and a variety of leisure facilities provide something for everyone, whether it’s a retreat you seek, or simply a means to unwind.

The resort will add 20 deluxe rooms to its room inventory. These will be situated in a new two-storey building on the beach along the south side of the property. All the rooms will have private verandas offering a panoramic view of the sea with modern amenities.

The Amata Beach Resort, Myanmar’s most exclusive international beach resort hotel, stretches along the beautiful shoreward of Ngapali, Myanmar’s premier beach. The resort covers more than five acres of tropical wonderland with luxurious accommodation in seventy teak, bamboo, cane and rattan cabanas, bungalows and suites.

If you are looking for your own get-away home, the Amata Ngapali Beach Resort is the place for you.

Recently opened to the public, the caves in Viengxay district are now significant historical site. The caves are recently well-known by lots of tourists to Laos. Come to the caves, tourist will have a great chance to visit the area where Lao revolutionary leaders took refuge against American bombing during the Indochina war.

Volunteer tourism has kicked off in recent months and the importance of adding the concept of helping others has increased among the conscience travelers. Many people while traveling are left with the question: “What can we do out of the ordinary to help others?” Volunteer tourism is not just about donating money and visiting a project. It’s about donating your time and devotion and sharing it with the local hosts and improving their livelihoods.

Exotissimo Cambodia has now worked out a couple of great programs in which people visit the country and its marvelous treasures as well as an additional work a couple of days on construction projects for the poor and handicapped. An extensive network of dedicated NGO’s and impressive cooperation between them and Exotissimo Cambodia has led to our first major project to be started in November 2007. This completely new form of Community Based Tourism proves promising and the people of Cambodia need your help more then ever to overcome the rapidly changing society. Exotissimo’s dedicated search for regional partners (NGO’s) and ground handling experience will lead the way to a well organized and appreciated program with the main purpose to provide a better future for those in need.