Viet-Danang craft village festival 2010 officially opened at 29/3 Park in Danang City on May 19. With the participation of 60 craft villages nationwide, the event features 100 arts and handicrafts stalls, product competitions, a seminar on stimulating demand for products from craft villages, and a bronze drum performance to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Forty-nine troupes from 26 countries will appear at the biennial Hue Festival to be held from June 5 to 13, according to Hue Festival Centre.
Italian specialists will help to restore some of the ancient streets in the capital city of Hanoi, said the Italian Embassy at a press conference on May 19.
Vietravel Marketing and Tourist Company, or Vietravel, worked with China’s Travel Channel China from May 16 to 21 to film a documentary in HCMC, Nha Trang and Hanoi.
The three central provinces and cities of Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Danang are striving for closer cooperation to jointly attract more Japanese travellers to the region, said Deputy Director of the Quang Nam Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho Tan Cuong. He said a plan, including the creation of new tourism products and cooperation in trade promotion, human-resources training and the establishment…
The provincial Communist Youth Union in Bac Ninh Province said that a collage themed One Thousand Years of Spirit of Thang Long-Hanoi which is 120m long and 3m high and was made by over 1,200 local children and teens had set a Vietnamese Guinness record.
The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha and Hanoi municipal authorities on May 19 held a ceremony to carry parts of a statue of the legendary hero of Thanh Giong (Saint Giong) to Da Chong Mountain in Phu Linh Commune, Soc Son District, Hanoi.
A friendship exchange was held in Hanoi on May 19 to celebrate the Vietnam-China Friendship Year 2010, the 120th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh and the 1,000th birthday of Hanoi.
The Saigontourist Travel Service Company welcomed the arrival of the Costa Romantica cruise liner at Ho Chi Minh City’s Navi Port on May 18.
A competition for tour guides in Hanoi has been launched to find outstanding tour guides before the millennium anniversary in the capital.
A culture and tourism festival 2010 started on May 18 at the Museum of Vietnamese Ethnic Cultures in the northern province of Thai Nguyen.
An exhibition displaying more than 300 documents, objects and photos of Uncle Ho and Vietnamese armed forces was held at the Museum of Vietnam Military History on May 18.