The Sai Gon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) will receive three cruise liners with 3,650 foreign tourists aboard during the traditional Lunar New Year Festival (Tet), which falls on the first week of February.
The Spring Flower Festival 2011 opened in Tao Dan Park, Ho Chi Minh City on January 28 to celebrate the founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3) and the success of the 11th National Party Congress.
A group of 52 artists from HCMC is presenting an overview of current lacquer paintings at their exhibition at the HCMC Fine Arts College.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) on January 26 held an award ceremony of logo-symbol designing contest for the National Tourism Promotion Programme over the 2011-2015 period.
A photo contest on world heritages in Vietnam was launched in Hanoi on January 27. The contest, jointly organised by the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition, the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists, the National Cultural Heritage Department and Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, aims to popularise, preserve and develop the value of the nation’s 11 UNESCO-recognised, cultural intangible, tangible and natural heritages.
An estimate of 1.7 million foreign visitors flocked to Hanoi during the National Tourism Year 2010, representing a year-on-year increase of 62%.
A photo exhibition by French photographer Sebastien Laval, entitled “Communities through timeâ€, has opened at L'Espace, the French cultural centre in Hanoi.
A Spring Flower and Drinks Fair which has opened in Hanoi will see some last-minute politicking for the selection of Vietnam's national flower.
A meeting was held in Hanoi on January 25 to review activities of National Tourism Year 2010.
More than 30 Tet flower fairs began in Ho Chi Minh City on January 26 to meet the local demand for the occasion of the Lunar New Year Festival.
The Furama Resort Danang in Danang City is hosting a Tet market from January 27 to 30 for tourists to enjoy a traditional Vietnamese Tet.
The number of foreign visitors to Ho Chi Minh City in January, 2011 is estimated to reach 310,000, 10% higher than the same period in 2010, announced HCMC Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.