Boasting long beaches of gleaming white sand with turquoise waters lapping ashore, Phu Quoc Island off the coast of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has been honoured by US travel magazine Cond

Regent Phu Quoc, on Phu Quoc Island off the southern coast of Vietnam, was the only Vietnamese representative on a list of the world’s 100 best new hotels as voted by US magazine Travel + Leisure’s editors and contributors.

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Phu Quoc have made it onto the global list of 100 greatest places to explore on Earth as voted by Time magazine.

Vietnam’s law-making National Assembly has recently approved a resolution to turn Phu Quoc into Vietnam’s first island city.