New York, famously known as the “city that never sleeps,” will soon be joined by Ho Chi Minh City, which is aspiring to that status in an effort to step up its tourism game.
A wide variety of exciting cultural, sports, fashion and cuisine events will be planned annually in HCM City to attract more tourists, city leaders have said.
The Viet Nam Embassy in India held a workshop to promote tourism in New Delhi on February 15.
HCM City’s Department of Tourism will focus on developing and marketing destinations to increase the number of foreign arrivals to the city to six million this year, officials have said.
An archeological excavation at the relic site Pu Luon Xe in hamlet 7, Tan Linh commune, Luc Yen district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai led to the discovery of a kiln making building materials said to belong to the Tran Dynasty.
Some 100 outstanding photos selected in the 2016 Viet Nam Heritage Photo Awards are on display at an exhibition, which opened at the Nha Trang University in the central province of Khanh Hoa on November 3.
A cultural-tourism week honouring the terraced paddy fields of Mu Cang Chai district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai opened with a ceremony on September 18.
The Muong Lo Cultural and Tourism Week 2016 was officially opened at a ceremony held in Nghia Lo Town, Yen Bai Province on September 17.
Parachutes are flying over ripening rice fields at Khau Pha pass, signaling the opening of a culture and tourism week highlighting terraced fields in Mu Cang Chai District in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.
(TITC) – From 15 – 20 September 2016, the People’s Committee of Yen Bai Province will organize Muong Lo Culture and Tourism Week 2016 in Nghia Lo Town, Yen Bai Province.
Dual cultural festivals will land the northwest region in September 2016, according to the provincial People’s Committee of Yen Bai at a meeting in the locality on August 11.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has assigned the authority of the northwestern province of Yen Bai to submit a dossier of the Xoe dance of the Thai ethnic people to UNESCO to seek the title of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.