A painting exhibition is underway at the Viet Nam Museum of Fine Arts, displaying 100 watercolour sketches by Vietnamese artists of different generations.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue welcomed 229,600 visitors in January, up five percent annually, according to provincial authorities.
The southern coastal province of Kien Giang has outstanding advantages for marine tourism compared to other south-western localities, and it is working to turn its Hon Son Island, considered a masterpiece of the nature, into a tourist magnet.
The northern province of Cao Bang has announced a Prime Minister decision recognising a pair of bells at the Da Quan relic complex in Hung Dao commune of Cao Bang city as national treasures.
Ho Chi Minh City welcomed 40,000 - 45,000 foreign visitors during the week-long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, a sudden increase compared to the same period last year, according to the statistics of the local tourism sector.
Many provinces across the country have reported a decent number of visitors during the Tet (Lunar New Year) 2017 holiday.
Vietnam Airlines, the national carrier, is running a booth at the Brussels International Tourism Fair to spread information on Vietnamese tourism to Belgians and other Europeans.
Due to the region’s desirable natural conditions, the Mekong delta province of Kien Giang has marked out four key tourism development zones, in the hope of satisfying travellers’ demands for discovery, relaxation and sightseeing.
More than 70,000 tourists, including 31,500 foreigners, visited relic sites in the Hue Imperial City during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which lasted from January 26 to February 1.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh attended a ceremony to mark the 1977th anniversary of the Trung sisters’ uprising at Hai Ba Trung Temple, a special national relic site in Ha Noi’s Me Linh district on January 2 (the sixth day of the first lunar month).
Vietnamese communities in Cambodia and Egypt are celebrating the traditional New Year, which falls on January 28.
A flight from Hong Kong with 172 passengers landed at Da Nang International Airport on January 28, bringing first tourists to the central city on the first day of the Lunar New Year.