Vietnam ranked first in the number of tourists visiting Cambodia last year, with around 854,000 people, up 12% compared with 2012’s figure, according to a report from Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism.
As many as 400,000 pilgrims have flocked to the Con Son-Kiep Bac historical site in the northern province of Hai Duong since the first days of the Year of the Horse.
The Mekong Delta province of Long An on February 15 and 16 held a festival for “Don ca tai tu”, a musical art in southern Vietnam that has officially become a recognised UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The Vietnam Year in France officially opened on February 14 at Chatelet Theatre in Paris with cultural and art performances.
A Russian Ikar Airlines plane landed at Phu Quoc Air Terminal at 08.20am on February, bringing 250 Russia visitors to the district island.
President Truong Tan Sang’s February 15 New Year visit to Dong Mo’s Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups on the outskirts of Hanoi coincided with spring festival celebrations.
(TITC) - On February 13th 2014, the Tokyo’s Tourism Department (Japan) held a seminar on “Tokyo city promotion 2014” in Ha Noi (Viet Nam).
Vietnamese students at universities in India’s New Delhi and neighbouring areas took part in an annual international cultural festival called Antardhvani which opened in the capital city on February 16.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh has held in-depth discussions on culture and heritage cooperation with several senior French officials as part of his ongoing visit to France from February 13-16.
From February 7-10, the Vietnamese Embassy in Greece participated in the 9th international exhibition-fair on tourism and gastronomy (HORECA) in Greece’s capital city of Athens.
More than 1,000 local artists are slated to perform six popular xoe dances of the Thai ethnic minority people in Nghia Lo town of the northwestern mountainous province of Yen Bai on February 14.
(TITC) - Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee promulgated Decision No. 81/QD-UBND on approving Project of “Community-based Tourism Development in Bac Giang Province in the period of 2014 – 2020” with total investment of nearly VND 42 billion.