As many as 26 photos of Vietnamese landscapes and livelihoods by Argentinean artists are being showcased on June 3 in the capital city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Viet Nam should do more to encourage domestic tourism to counter the ongoing and damaging decrease in the number of foreign visitors, according to one of the country’s top tourism officials.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has taken a number of approaches to develop the sector effectively and sustainably in 2015 and following years.
The community-based tourism in Quang Binh province, including homestays and farmstays, has attracted a large number of visitors. Quang Binh provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has planned some projects to develop this type of tourism.
(TITC) - On 26 May 2015, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh had a talk with the Russian Ambassador to Viet Nam Vnukov Konstantin Vasilievich on strengthening cooperation of culture, sports and tourism.
(TITC) – On 25th May 2015, in Ha Noi, the Viet Nam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA) launched the 8th International Artistic Photo Contest in Viet Nam 2015 which was sponsored by the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) and Image Sans Frontière (ISF).
An exhibition, themed ‘Vietnamese wood-engraved painting: from traditional to modern’, will be organised in Tokyo, Japan from June 7-16, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
A conference on promoting Vietnamese tourism in Argentina was convened by the Argentina Tourism Association (Armat) and the Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina on June 2.
Plans and strategies to manage and preserve local heritage sites, starting with the tomb of King Minh Mang has been supported by the application of geographic information systems (GIS).
Viet Nam Archaeology Institute has found five stone axes believed to come from the 3,000-year-old Sa Huynh Culture at a Khue Bac communal house garden in Da Nang.
Two ancient banyans in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre were recognised as Heritage Tree on June 2 by the Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment.
Foreign tourist arrivals to Ho Chi Minh city reached an estimated 301,000 in May 2015, a year-on-year rise of 3.7%, reported the municipal People’s Committee.