Useful Informaton for tourists

1. SHOPPING 
Ben Tre Co-op Mart supermarket
Address: 26A Tran Quoc Tuan Street, Ward 4, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3511322
Ward 2 Trade Center
Address: Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 2, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3822252
Ward 3 Market
Address: Ward 3, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3829330
In addition, the downtown market in the districts of the province are selling local specialties.

2. BANK
Investment and Development Bank
Address: 21 Dong Khoi Avenue, Ward 3, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3817953
Asian Bank
Address: 67C1 Dong Khoi Anenue, Phu Khuong Ward, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3512101
Asia – East Bank
Address: 336A1 Dong Khoi Avenue, Phu Tan Ward, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3560000
Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank Ben Tre Branch
Address: 142A Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, Ward 2, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3822507 – 3824960
Agricultural and Rural Development Bank
Address: 284A Dong Khoi Avenue, Phu Khuong Ward, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3814900

3. POST OFFICE
Postal center
Address: 03 Dong Khoi Avenue, Ward 3, Ben Tre city
3/2, Ward 3, Ben Tre city (temporary address)
Phone: 075. 3814900 – 3822162

4. HOSPITALS, PHARMACIES
Nguyen Dinh Chieu General hospital
Address: 109 Doan Hoang Minh Street, Ward 5, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3817555
Minh Duc General hospital
Address: 333D Doan Hoang Minh Street, Ward 6, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3836666 – 0988. 671 168
Tran Van An Traditional Medicine Hospital 
Address: 44 Doan Hoang Minh Street, Ward 6, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3810238
Thong Nhat Pharmacy
Address: 119 Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, Ward 2, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3824553

5. TRAFFIC
Coaches
Mien Tay – Western station
Address: 395 Kinh Duong Vuong, An Lac Ward, Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh city
Phone: 08. 37510524
Ben Tre Coach Station
Address: Hamlet 1, Son Dong Commune, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3828372 – 3822298
Mai Linh Coach Company
Address: Tran Quoc Tuan Street, Ward 4, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3510510

Taxi 
Mai Linh Taxi
Address: 69 B1, Dong Khoi Avenue, Phu Khuong Ward, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 3878787
Happy Taxi
Address: 184 A4, National Road 60, Phu Tan Ward, Ben Tre city
Phone: 075. 36777777
Motorcycles
On arrival in Ben Tre, tourists can tour this beautiful area by motorcycle for easy access to the historical and cultural relics, scenic places. Tourists can rent a car at the hotel where they stay./.

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Introduction to homeland Ben Tre

Ben Tre is a delta province located downstream the Mekong River, bordering the East Sea, with 65 km of coastline and is accreted by four major rivers Tien Giang, Ba Lai, Ham Luong and Co Chien, which divide it into three large isles:

• An Hoa Isle (including 2 districts: Chau Thanh and Binh Dai).
• Bao Isle (including Ben Tre City and 2 districts: Giong Trom and Ba Tri).
• Minh Isle (including 4 districts: Cho Lach, Mo Cay Nam, Mo Cay Bac and Thanh Phu).

Ben Tre province is in the southwest and has two distinct seasons (six months of rain and six months of sun). The rain and weather are favorable with a thick system of rivers, canals which create an eco-tourism potential featuring the South, with its lush orchards, coconut forests laden all year round. Ben Tre is also the place which produces seedlings for supply throughout the country and neighboring countries.

Ben Tre has a historical system of quite rich and diverse relics and culture; referring to Ben Tre, everyone in the country knows the homeland Dong Khoi once spent a brave war of resistance, especially the long hair army imprinted in people’s hearts. Besides, Ben Tre is also the region producing more celebrities who live eternally in history such as Great-grandfathers Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Phan Van Tri, Phan Thanh Gian, Vo Truong Toan, Lanh Binh Thang, Le Quang Quan (Tan Ke), Truong Vinh Ky, Lt. Gen. Dong Van Cong, Female General Nguyen Thi Dinh, Vice President of our People's Council Huynh Tan Phat, etc.

Moreover, the natural elements with cultural tradition of our motherland helped the land of Ben Tre have a rich and diverse tourist potential.

Ben Tre Tourism Promotion Information Center compiled to show tourists some outlines. We hope this book will help readers understand the primary features of the land and people, along with basic information of Ben Tre Tourism, as well as a companion when arriving in the coconut land of much hospitality and tourist potential.

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Tourism Information Promotion of Ben Tre

No. 108/1 Street 30/4, Ward 4, Ben Tre City, Ben Tre Province

Tel: (84-75).8511480 – Fax: (84-75).3838813

Email: ttxtdlbt@gmail.com

Blog: http://dlbentre.blogspot.com - http://tipcbentre.blogspot.com

Website: http://sovhttdl.bentre.gov.vn

- Official name: BEN TRE TOURIST PROMOTION INFORMATION CENTER

- Transaction name: Ben Tre Tourism Information Promotion Center (TIPC)

Over the past few years tourism businesses are of small scale standing before the great challenges of integration trend, hardly able to reach out to promote general introduction to the province to lousiness, to domestic and foreign tourists on tourism development, activities of the province. Thus, it is necessary to have active intervention and support of the State in the field of tourism promotion information at the provincial level.

On August 23rd, 2010, the provincial People’s Committee Decision No.1821/QD-UBND on the establishment of Tourism Promotion Information Center under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ben Tre. This is a work unit with the function of advising the leaders to implement the operations of information and promotion of tourism in the provincial area.

Tourism Promotion Information Center (TIPC) has functions to organize activities on the following areas:

- On tourist information: organizing and developing information technology activities in the field of Culture, Sport and Tourism locally: serving the administration of the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism as well as the business activities of enterprises.

Collecting receiving tourist information from the industries businesses, locally and abroad; providing information for tourism enterprises to operate around the province of Ben Tre.

As regards the promotion of tourism: Constructing plans, tourist promotion program, organizing, implementing programs to promote tourism, events, fairs, seminars, exhibitions of tourist, information activities on tourism (domestic and abroad) nationally regionally and locally. Developing communication products, introducing tourism promotion, Announcing new tourism products, Surveying tourist destinations (including tourist site, tourist area, tourist routes), International cooperation on tourism promotion, organizing pilot tours for tour operators, introducing tourist attractions, promoting in investment in the tourism sector, tourism promotion with local, regional, domestic and international economic region.

With respect to the training of human resources: Coordinating with other units, tourist training schools to open professional refresher courses for tourist business units in the provincial area.

In addition, the Center also does tourist investment projects, constructing billboards in the provincial area and a number of other projects when being authorized by the Department./.

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