According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the second Central Highlands cultural days in Hanoi will take place at the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts in Hanoi, from August 28th to September 2nd.
Tenfold increases in local incomes, reduced poverty, increased cultural and foreign language understanding, investment in infrastructure and increased skills and social understanding make Trang An Ecological Tourist Site, Vietnam's "Ha Long Bay on Land", a true example of best practice community-based tourism.
Since early this year, southern Kien Giang province has received more than 2.3 million visitors, nearly 9 percent higher than the same period last year.
Russia is among countries having the highest numbers of tourists to Vietnam in the first half of this year, according to Voice of Russia (VOR).
A Vietnam Fair was held at the Lake Town Commercial Centre in Koshigaya City, Saitama prefecture, Japan from August 3-5.
(TITC)_On August 2, 2012, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in collaboration with ASEAN Secretariat held the national workshop "Gap analysis on implementation of Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) on tourim professionals" in Bao Son Hotel, Ha Noi. This activity is in the framework of ASEAN - Australia development cooperation program (AADCP) phase II.
The Hanoi City People's Committee has unveiled a master plan on preserving the site of the ancient Thang Long Imperial Citadel and developing part of the area into a culture and history park.
The central province of Thua Thien - Hue has set a target of welcoming between 2 and 2.5 million visitors during the National Tourism Year 2012 for the North Central Region, with a series of cultural activities, tourist products and new infrastructure.
Despite the global economic downturn, the number of foreign tourists traveling to Vietnam by sea increased sharply in the first seven months of this year.
Welcomed over 3.8 million foreign arrivals in the January-July period, up 10.8 percent over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.
(TITC)- Lao Cai is a province in the Northwestern mountainous region of Viet Nam where is home to 27 ethnic groups with special traditional characteristics. The province is also endowed with beautiful landscapes, impressive caves and ancient rocks of over hundreds of thousands of years... thus creating a huge tourism potential for provincial tourism development.
An exhibition of ancient Vietnamese artifacts and an Oc Eo-Phu Nam civilisation room were jointly opened in Hanoi on July 25 by the Vietnam National Museum of History and the Thang long Artifacts Association.