The first Hoi An – Republic of Korea (RoK) Handicraft and Fine Arts Exchange Programme opened in Hoi An City, Quang Nam province on December 2, as part of activities to mark the 15th anniversary of Hoi An ancient town being recognised as a World Cultural Heritage site (December 4, 1999 –December 4, 2014).
Hoi An, with its beautifully restored houses, shops and public buildings has a reputation of being a favourite getaway of budget minded travellers, the type of cultural hub where tourists come to visit for a few days and end up staying for weeks.
Conde Nast Traveler named the Long Bien wholesale market in Ha Noi located under the famous Long Bien Bridge that was repeatedly bombed and repaired during the war with France and America on its list of the world top 7 street markets.
The World Heritage site and ancient town of Hoi An has been implementing a number of measures to preserve bai choi singing in an effort to promote the heritage site’s cultural value.
International and domestic researchers and artists of folk music presented suggestions about how to preserve and promote Bai choi singing at a workshop on October 29 in central Quang Nam province.
TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website, has named three Vietnamese museums – the Museum of Ethnology, the Women’s Museum and the War Remnants Museum – in the top 25 most attractive museums in Asia.
A lot of hearsays have it that Bao Loc City in the Central Highlands of Lam Dong is home to numerous wonders. The most typical one, as widely agreed, is certainly the Dambri Waterfall, but the wonderland is also said to be well known for other extravagant venues, such as Suoi Mo, or Fairy Stream, and Seven-Storey Waterfall among others. So we set out for…
The tourism industry in the central coastal province Quang Nam will pay more attention to attracting domestic visitors in the time ahead in order to regain growth pace, according to the Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Dinh Hai.
Quang Ngai province is located in the Central Coastal region, bordering Kon Tum province and the Truong Son mountain range to the west, Quang Nam to the north, Binh Dinh to the south and the East Sea to the east, with a coastline of more than 140km.
(TITC)-On 15 Sept 2014, Pegas Touristik Group and Anh Duong Tourist Company held a seminar on tourism between Vietnamese and Russian tourism businesses. The seminar was in the framework of International Leisure Tourism Market-Leisure Moscow 2014 in Russia Federal (16-19 Sept 2014) and to celebrate 20th anniversary of the establishment of Pegas Touristik Group.
Around 60 photographs depicting the beauty of Ha Noi in the early 20th century are on display at an exhibition, which opened in Paris, France on September 15.
Touropia, a tourism website, has chosen Hoi An ancient town as one of the 10 World Famous Canals.