(TITC) - On 3 March 2015, in Ha Noi, Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) held the opening ceremony of training course to serve the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU 132) for heads of divisions and staffs of hotels selected to welcome and serve delegates and guests of IPU 132 and tourism service provider for IPU 132.
The northern midland province of Phu Tho launched a festival paying homage to Viet Nam’s legendary mother Au Co at her temple in Ha Hoa district on February 25, the seventh day of the first lunar month.
A cultural programme themed “The Colours of Vietnamese Culture” was held on February 4 at the Gymnaziym school in the city of Teplice, the Czech Republic , to introduced the country’s unique culture to the locals.
The Japanese Embassy in Ha Noi offered visitors an opportunity to discover and practise the Japanese dyeing technique ‘Kusaki-zome’ on October 22.
The northern province of Phu Tho launched its tourism website at http://dulich.phutho.gov.vn and decided to establish a tourism information and promotion centre.
Quang Ninh province held a ceremony on September 13 to receive the Prime Minister’s certificate recognising Tran Dynastry historical relics as a Special National Relic.
The northeastern province of Phu Tho has devised measures to preserve its cultural assets in the long run, including rituals worshipping the Hung Kings and “xoan” singing.
Over the January-July period, the number of tourists to the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai topped 800,000, up a whopping 25 percent thanks to the locality’s tourism stimulus drive for 2014, reported the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet Air announced on May 23 that it is expanding service to provide travelers new convenient same-day round-trip flights connecting Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore.
Food festival “Am Thuc Dat Phuong Nam” (southern country cuisine) will be organized for the fourth time at Dam Sen Park in HCMC’s District 11 from May 29 to June 1 to showcase the cuisine of Viet Nam’s southern provinces.
Thousands of people, including Party and State officials, pilgrims and Vietnamese expatriates, offered incense to commemorate Hung Kings – the nation’s founders – at a solemn ceremony in Phu Tho province on April 9.
Thousands gathered in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 7 for a grand procession to honour the Hung Kings, the founders of the Vietnamese nation.