Sa Pa winter festival 2017 kicked off in Sa Pa resort town, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on December 23 as part of activities to promote tourism potential of the locality in the framework of the 2017 National Tourism Year.
US travel site Insider has named Viet Nam’s northern province of Ninh Binh as one of the 50 best spots to visit in 2018.
Ha Noi’s Department of Tourism estimated that by the end of 2017, the capital city will have welcomed more than 23.8 million visitors for earnings of roughly 71 trillion VND (3.1 billion USD), an increase of 15 percent from the same period last year.
The Ho Chi Minh City–Gyeongju World Culture Festival 2017 in the Vietnamese southern hub, which closed on December 3, attracted more than 4 million domestic and foreign visitors.
A week-long festival spotlighting tea and silk products of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is scheduled as part of the Da Lat Flower Festival.
The year-end tourist season and New Year are approaching; it’s also a busy time to entice holiday-makers to buy tour packages, especially outbound tours. To grasp these opportunities, many travel agents have introduced attractive tour packages to lure more foreign tourists to Viet Nam while pushing outbound tours sales.
In the World Heritage-listed town of Hoi An in Quang Nam Province, there is a night market on Nguyen Hoang Street which is worth visiting.
As many as 10,000 tourist maps in English and Vietnamese will be distributed free to tourists and tourism companies in Da Lat in December.
The first Italy-ASEAN Week, a programme to popularise culture and enhance friendship between Italy and ASEAN countries, was opened in Ha Noi on November 18.
The central city of Da Nang has called for investment in nine projects in tourism and entertainment worth an estimated 500 million USD during the APEC Economic Leaders' Week.
Neos Airways said it would open charter flights from Milan (Italy) to Phu Quoc of the Southern province of Kien Giang from December 19 to April, 2018.
The cap sac (maturity ritual) of the Dao ethnic group may be recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage.