To mark the Tourism Day of Phan Thiet City (October 24) and the day Phan Thiet becomes a 2nd grade city, Binh Thuan Province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has approved a plan to organize culture and sports activities to share their happiness with international and domestic tourists.
Vietnamese and Republic of Korean Cultural Week will be held in Hanoi and HCMC from October 18-25 to boost the traditional friendship between the two countries in education, culture and public health.
The central city of Danang will host the International Fireworks Competition 2010, which will take place on March 27 and 28 next year. This will be the third time that the city has hosted such event.
The Hanoi Union of Friendship Organisations announced 10 major activities to celebrate the city’s recognition by UNESCO 10 years ago as a “City for Peaceâ€, in the lead-up to the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
After many cancellations, the Long Bien Bridge Memory Festival, considered one of the biggest art festivals of the year, will take place from October 10-11 for the first time as part of the celebrations of the 55th anniversary of the Hanoi’s liberation and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
The fourth annual “Taste of the World Festival 2009†will be organized at September 23 Park in HCMC’s District 1 from December 3 to 6 with the participation of 24 countries.
Tourism, cultural and sports activities will kick off National Tourism Year 2010 in Hanoi beginning this month. "The National Tourism Year is the country’s important event to promote national tourism sector to international countries," Pham Quang Long, Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said.
Vietnam will hold its first Rice Festival in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang from November 26 to 30 to introduce to the world the country’s wet rice civilisation – an essential part of its culture.
Fireworks, martial arts, and traditional music performances will be the highlights of a three-day festival to be held in Hanoi from October 9-11.
A cultural, sports and tourism festival will be held for the first time in the Red River Delta region.
The annual Nghinh Ong or Whale Worship Festival, a traditional festival for fishermen, will begin on October 2 in HCMC’s coastal district, Can Gio. The four-day festival will open at several venues at 8am in Can Thanh Town.
An exhibition of Hanoi’s craft villages will open in the capital city on October 6 as part of activities to mark the 999 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. The exhibition will display 300 typical products of Hanoi’s craft villages which specialise in wood carving, pottery, brocading, lacquer, mother-of-pearl inlaying, rattan and bamboo knitting and silk weaving.