The tourism season in Ba Ria – Vung Tau begins in December and lasts until the Lunar New Year. The southern
land of Vietnam proves to be an ideal destination for foreign tourists, who come in December and January to avoid the winter’s coldness in their home countries and enjoy Christmas and New Year.
Ba Ria – Vung Tau is always full of foreign travellers in the tourism season. In December 2005, for example, Ky Van resort received some 1,000 international tourists and gained the turnover of VND2.5bil ($0.15mil). The newly operational resorts there like Long Hai Beach, Intourco and Binh An also receive a lot of foreign tourists from Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Russia and the US.
