HCMC, the country’s biggest tourism center announced the best travel firms, hotels, travel websites, shopping venues and tourism service providers in the city.
More than 50 paintings and sketches by the late Vietnamese song-writer Trinh Cong Son will come to HCMC Fine Arts Museum on Saturday, April 9.
People’s Committee of Quang Ninh Province coordinated with related agencies to hold a press conference to announce the program of Ha Long - Quang Ninh Tourism Week 2011 on April 1, 2011.
A book titled, “Hung Kings-National Ancestors†was offered to Hung Kings at the Hung Kings Temple Relics Site in the northern midland province of Phu Tho on April 11 as a commemoration of the legendary national founders on the anniversary of their death.
Tourism companies joining the four-day HCMC Tourism Day scheduled to kick off on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at the September 23 Park in the city downtown are offering various promotions with an aim to attract customers for the summer travel season.
About one million tourists from ASEAN countries visited Vietnam in 2010, accounting for 20 percent of the country’s total number of foreign arrivals.
The Center for Preservation of Co Loa Relics – Thang Long Ancient Citadel has asked permission from the Hanoi authorities and related ministries to compile the file of Co Loa relic to submit to the UNESCO for recognition as a world cultural heritage.
An exhibition entitled “Mekong’s stories: Challenge and Dream†opened in the Lao capital of Vientiane on April 6, 2011.
The Phu Day Festival has begun with traditional ceremonies, plus artistic activities and unique national games including singing, human chess, wrestling and dragon and lion dancing.
Local travel firms have already achieved extraordinary results in the MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition) tourism sector this year.
Vietnam has submitted documents on the worship rituals dedicated to Hung Kings in the midland province of Phu Tho to the UNESCO to seek its Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity recognition.
The five-star cruise liner SuperStar Aquarius with 2,200 foreign tourists and crew aboard docked at the world’s natural heritage, Ha Long Bay, in the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 3, 2011.