More than 47,700 people paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum on National Day (September 2) and the previous day.
The central province of Quang Nam hosted a record 2.3 million tourists in the first eight months of this year, earning VND3 trillion (US$143 million).
(TITC) - After planning many times, in July 2012, Bernard Picasso's family, the grandson of famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, left for Viet Nam to visit.
The preservation and development of the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) cultural features must respect principles of diversity, said Luong Hong Quang, deputy head of the Vietnam Institute of Culture and Arts Studies.
With a recent strong growth in international arrivals from Russia, Vietnam's tourism has picked this country as one of the three major source markets, together with South Korea and Japan, to focus promotion activities on.
With the aim to fully exploit the tourism potential, to make tourism to be a key economic sector of Bac Binh district, the district's authorities is mobilizing all resources to invest in marine tourism and ecotourism.
Historical relic Con Dao is proving a magnet to visitors and investors. The image of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province's Con Dao island has over the past months appeared consecutively in the world-famous television channels and magazines like France's TF1 television channel, the US's New York Times and Travel and Leisure magazines and the UK's Lonely Planet magazine.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has submitted to the National Cultural Heritage Council a request for national ranking of 11 cultural relics in 12 provinces and cities of Vietnam.
Foreign tourists gathered recently at the Sai Gon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City for the Hon Viet - The Soul of Vietnam, a show staged by the Mekong Artist Joint-Stock Company.
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)'s tourism industry has consolidated its spearhead role in recent years, with increased proportions of GDP from 10 percent in 2010 and 11 percent in 2011.
The Hue Relics Preservation Centre and its partners are working on a project to showcase several areas of An Dinh Palace, one of the city's most well-known historic sites.
Vietnam has welcomed almost 4.4 million visitors in the first eight months of 2012, a year-on-year increase of 9.4 percent, according to the General Statistics Office.