The Ba Be National Park in the northern mountainous province of Bac Can has been named on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands List as a Wetland of International Importance.
Hoi An Ancient City in the central coastal province of Quang Nam, ranked second among the world’s top 10 leading tourism cities, according to a selection by readers of the UK’s Wanderlust.co.uk/magazine.
An art group of the central province of Quang Nam will perform at a festival which will be held from May 26 to June 5 in the city Bergamo of Italy.
Vietnam’s three hotels have been named in the World Best Hotel Values’ list in the March 2011 issue of Travel and Leisure Magazine.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has donated 40,000 tourism maps of Hoi An’s ancient streets and its neighborhoods to the central town, according to UNESCO’s Representative Office in Hanoi.
Ten female artists from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are showcasing their latest paintings at an annual exhibition at the Women Artists Club.
Ray Edmondson, Chair of the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee for Memory of the World Programme, saw wood blocks printed with Buddhist Sutras that are seeking for UNESCO’s World Documentary Heritage recognition at Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in the northern province of Bac Giang.
Up to 885,200 tourists flocked to the northern province of Quang Ninh during February this year, representing a year-on-year increase of 8%. Of the figure 186,800 were foreigners.
The Thang Long Xanh Investment Company, an affiliate of Archi Group launched Zen Resort project, a Japan-styled resort complex in Hanoi on March 5.
An exhibition of Furoshiki, Japanese wrapping cloths, was held in Hanoi by the Japan Foundation Centre for Culture Exchange in Vietnam on March 3.
The tourism sector recorded an impressive performance last month with over 590,000 foreign visitors visiting the country, up 32.4% from a year ago, says a General Statistics Office report.
Almost 165 antiques dating from Vietnam’s Nguyen Dynasty in the 19th century are currently on display in Gyeongju in the Republic of Korea (RoK) from February 28 - March 15.