After suffering long –term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the bustling atmosphere has returned to the streets of major cities on New Year holidays.
According to statistics, the number of international visitors to Vietnam in 2022 reached 3.66 million. Of which, visitors arriving by air were 3.27 million, accounting for 89.5 percent of the total foreign tourists.
A hot-air balloon festival, the first of its kind to be held in Da Lat City in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong, kicked off on December 28 as part of the Da Lat flower festival 2022.
The HCMC Department of Tourism launched a program voting for the city's 100 Excitements on December 26.
A recent study conducted by UK luxury holiday company Destination2 has listed Nha Trang beach and Vung Tau beach in Vietnam among the top 10 most popular beaches worldwide.
Lan Ha Bay (in the northern portal city of Hai Phong) and Da Lat City (in the Central Highland Province of Lam Dong) were listed by the US’s CNN Travel, among the 18 most underrated places in Asia.
A programme entitled “The Trade Union Tet Market in 2023” is scheduled to be held at the Provincial Fair Centre in Lang Son City, in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son, from December 30, 2022, to January 1, 2023.
The Quang Binh provincial Tourism Department will host a wide range of cultural and tourism activities, at the locality’s popular attractions, to welcome the New Year 2023.
On the morning of December 20, Hue Monuments Conservation Center opened an e-ticket system and XR virtual reality experience service in the Imperial Citadel.
The central coastal city of Da Nang will set off fireworks at midnight on January 21 to welcome the Lunar New Year 2023, announced on December 19 by the municipal People’s Committee.
Boasting a number of high-class accommodation facilities, Hanoi enjoys favourable conditions to wlcome large groups of MICE (meeting, incentive, convention, exhibition) tourists, according to the Hanoi Department of Tourism.
HCMC’s unique floating flower market on the lunar New Year is scheduled to open on January 6-21 (on the 5th -30th days of the last lunar month).