Guide Awards will be presented to 125 leading tourism businesses at the 11th Guide Awards ceremony in Da Nang city on September 25.
The Management Board of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park said on September 17 that UNESCO has sent of a group of experts to Vietnam to verify the entire dossier submitted by the country to seek the park’s second UNESCO recognition, this time for its biodiversity.
Vietnam’s tourism authority is pinning hopes on a strong recovery of the inbound sector and aiming for a record high of five million foreign visitor arrivals in the country this year.
A plan to develop the tourist and aviation infrastructures in the central region was discussed at a conference on developing the central region’s tourist industry, in Da Nang on September 16.
The General Director of the UNESCO will arrive in Hanoi on October 1 to attend celebrations of the 1,000th birthday of the capital city and hand over certification of UNESCO recognition of Thang Long Royal Citadel as a world cultural heritage.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Hanoi and other localities in the nation to build the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups in Son Tay district of Hanoi into an attractive destination for foreign and domestic tourists.
A festival, entitled “Hello! Vietnam †opened at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on September 18.
A photography exhibition on the thousand-year-old Thang Long-Hanoi†was opened on September 15 at Russia’s State Museum of Oriental Arts in Moscow, as part of the “Vietnamese days in Russia†programme.
A 3D animated film celebrating the life of King Ly Thai To (974-1028) has just hit cinemas after nearly two years in the making.
The construction of a mini version of VND114.8 billion Lam Kinh Historical Relic in Xuan Lam Commune has been approved by authorities in Thanh Hoa Province.
On September 15, the final round of the National Hotel Front Desk Competition 2010 has taken place at the Au Co Art Center, Ha Noi.
Over 3,000 representatives from Hanoi-based businesses and organisations will walk around Hoan Kiem Lake on September 26 to mark the 1000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.