The Ok-Om-Bok festival officially received the title of ‘National Intangible Cultural Heritage’ at a ceremony held at Ba Om Pond historic national site on November 6.
A dialogue, touting Viet Nam and Southeast Asia as a top holiday destination, recently attracted a large gathering in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Viet Nam’s culture and cuisine were introduced to an international audience at the Asian Culture and Culinary Festival held in Kiev, Ukraine on November 8.
More than 200 representatives from travel agents and hotels in the central province of Thua Thien - Hue are taking a training course on Nov. 5 and 6 on how to improve service quality for Japanese tourists.
Viet Nam has been included in the list of “top 20 Best Places To Live Overseas”, according to Business Insider, a US online newspaper based in New York City.
A competition on world heritage discovery in Ha Noi officially opened on November 6.
The Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE) has recognized the groups of fir and rhododendron trees in Hoang Lien National Park as the heritage trees of Viet Nam.
National Geographic, has named Phu Quoc island one of the top 15 favoured winter travel destinations for 2014.
The launch of direct air routes between India’s Mumbai and New Delhi and Viet Nam’s Ho Chi Minh City by India’s Jet Airways, starting on November 5, will support the pair in tapping their respective enormous tourism potential, said a Vietnamese diplomat.
An exhibition on “Viet Nam’s Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos: historical and legal evidence” was launched at the Khmer Cultural Exhibition Centre in the southern province of Soc Trang on November 4.
The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has been undertaking efforts to promote the tangible and intangible cultural heritage values of its ethnic minority population in a bid to develop the province’s tourism image.
Quang Ninh provincial People's Committee and the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on tourism promotion cooperation and attract investment in London on November 1.