Five-star cruiser brings 1,600 tourists to Ha Long Bay

Five-star cruise liner Costa Classica on April 6 took 1,600 foreign holiday-makers to visit Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO-recognised world cultural heritage site, in northern coastal Quang Ninh province.

This is the first time the Costa Classica has arrived in Vietnam but it is the third cruiser of Costa Crociere S.p.A., a member of the world’s largest cruise industry leader Carnival Group, to include Ha Long Bay in their tour itinerary.

The Costa Allegra and Costa Marina are making regular trips to the heritage site.

In early April, Ha Long Bay welcomed another five-star liner Crystal Serenity carrying 670 foreign tourists under the flag of Bahamas./.

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