Overseas visitors stayed in Ho Chi Minh City for 5.2 days on average in 2017, with foreign tourists on holidays spending four days, according to a recent survey jointly conducted by the city’s Department of Tourism and the Statistics Office.
Major media agencies from member countries of the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation met on July 3 to seek to enhance cooperation in service of tourism in the region.
A data digitisation project has been implemented in the Complex of Hue Monuments in the central province of Thue Thien-Hue to improve the management and preservation of Tu Duc Tomb and An Dinh Palace.
HCM City authorities are making efforts to ensure foreign visitors extend their stay in the city, and they seem to be paying off.
The central province of Quang Binh welcomed over 1.8 million tourists in the first half of this year, up nearly 17 percent year-on-year.
An online knowledge contest on Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park was launched on June 6 with the grand prize being a US$6,000 tour to explore Son Doong - the largest cave in the world.
Ha Noi welcomed more than 13.1 million tourists in the first half of this year (a year-on-year rise of 10%), with around 3 million foreign visitors (up nearly 26%) and over 10.1 million domestic arrivals (up 6%).
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has sent a document to Quang Tri provincial People’s Committee to pursue a project preserving and embellishing the southern Hien Luong bridge and Ben Hai river relics.
Italy’s Martarello toppled the US’s PyroVision in the final of the 2018 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF 2018) to take first place on June 30.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue kicked off the Lotus Festival 2018 themed “Legend of a flower” on June 29, as part of a series of activities to promote Hue, a festival city of Viet Nam.
A green tourism week was launched in Triem Tay community-based tourism village, a major destination in the central province of Quang Nam, on June 27 with an aim to raise public awareness of ecological environment protection.
Authorities in northern Bac Ninh Province are planning to compile a dossier on the Vietnamese folk art of Dong Ho painting in a bid to secure UNESCO recognition.