The Guide Awards given away annually by the Viet Nam Economic Times magazine to the year's best tourism products and services will be presented to 134 winners in Mui Ne on July 29.
Central Highlands Gia Lai province is currently having more than 5,600 sets of gongs, a musical percussion instrument that earned UNESCO’s world intangible heritage recognition for its cultural space.
Despite the global economic downturn, more than 1.8 million foreign tourists visited Ho Chi Minh City over the past seven months, up 10 percent compared to the same period last year.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and Vietnam Airlines on Sunday began a five-day fact-finding trip to Japan to explore ways to lure Japanese tourists back after the natural disasters in March, an official said.
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.