National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will add 342 domestic flights on 16 routes on April 30 (country reunification) and May 1 (Labour Day).
A series of activities will be held across the nation, especially the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, from now to the end of May to mark the 60th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, which helped end French colonial rule in Vietnam.
As many as 68 art groups with about 1,400 artists from 38 countries across the world have so far registered to participate in the 2014 Hue Festival, which is slated for April 12-20 in the former imperial city of Hue.
(TITC) - From 5 to 6 April 2014, in Sa Pa Town, Lao Cai Province, Viettel Military-run Telecom Group in cooperation with Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs and People’s Committee of Lao Cai Province will organize “North-West’s Spring” Festival. The event also aims to commemorate 1 year of launching Viettel’s product set for ethnic minority people.
(TITC) – In the framework of Viet Nam International Travel Mart 2014 (VITM Ha Noi 2014), on 3rd April 2014, Philippines Department of Tourism organized a press conference introducing Philippines’s destinations to promote its image.
The number of foreign tourist arrivals to Viet Nam in the first quarter of 2014 reached an estimated 2.32 million, a 29.3 percent rise over a year previous, according to the General Department of Statistics.
Traditional puppetry will be performed in Ha Noi to celebrate World Theatre Day, which falls on March 27.
The Moscow State Institute for Industry of Tourism (MGIIT) recently posthumously honoured Yuri Aleksandrovich Sienkiewicz for his significant contributions to promoting Viet Nam and its culture in Russia.
Viet Nam welcomed over 1.6 million overseas arrivals in the first two months of 2014, a surge of 33.4 percent over the same period last year, according to General Statistics Office.
The opening ceremony of the annual cherry blossom festival will take place on 8pm at Ha Long park and will be broadcast live on Quang Ninh Television and Radio.
Long Tong festival, a special festival of the Tay ethnic minority group, has taken place at Dap Thanh commune, Ba Che district, the northern province of Quang Ninh.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand in conjunction with Le Danang restaurant in Thailand 's capital of Bangkok has launched the Vietnam Gastronomy Month in Thailand .