The number of three- to five-star hotels in Ho Chi Minh City has nearly doubled in the last three years to 73 with a total of 9,700 rooms, the city Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has said.
An action plan for the EU-funded project “Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Programme†was discussed at a seminar in Hanoi on July 22.
Danang City’s authorities have submit ted a document to the Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism to acknowledge the three precious artefacts of My Son E1 temple, Tra Kieu temple and Tara Bodhisattva statue at the Champa Sculpture Art Museum as national treasures, reports Tuoi Tre.
The 17th Vietnam Film Festival will run from December 16 to December 18 at the Sao Mai Theatre in Phu Yen province.
The Ha Tinh provincial Museum on July 21 found a set of three ancient jack-tree wooden bells preserved in Ha Linh pagoda in Tien Loc commune, Can Loc district.
Traces of prehistoric man have been found near Ba Be Lake, in the northern province of Bac Can.
The Official Korea Tourism Organisation has invited pop singer My Linh to act as Korean tourism ambassador to Vietnam in 2011.
As many as 721 athletes from 37 ethnic groups in 17 cities and provinces nationwide are competing in the seventh National Sports Festival for Ethnic Minorities, which opened in the central province of Quang Nam on July 20.
The northern mountainous Bac Kan provincial Department of Information and Communications has held a seminar on preserving traditional values of folks of Tay ethnic minority groups in the province.
Next
month, culture lovers will have the opportunity to join eight new modern
projects funded by the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF).
On July 19th, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a press briefing on Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia Song and Dance Festival to take place in the central province of Quang Tri on July 22nd - 27th.
Fifty young chefs from hotels and restaurants across Vietnam will gather at Mon Ngon Viet Nam(Delicious Vietnamese Cuisine) studio in HCMC’s District 1 on Wednesday to show off their skills by making 10 different dishes.