The national tourism development strategy for 2020 spotlights gender equality as a key element for a green and sustainable industry.
Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh has invited Laos to participate in celebrations for the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and the making of policies to attract tourists.
Vietnam’s Danang Port Company Limited and Singapore’s Cruise Centre Pte Ltd will establish a joint-venture company to develop an international tourist wharf to receive cruise ships at Danang’s Tien Sa Port, a local partner said.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has hosted an Asia Culinary Fair, at which guests and diplomats from many countries had the chance to enjoy Vietnamese food.
Nine artists from Tien Giang Province and 36 members of the HCMC-based Mekong Art Club are displaying their latest works as part of an exchange programme.
A Vietnamese cultural festival was held at Warwick University in the UK on March 13 by the Vietnamese Students’ Association.
A musical performance programme was held in Vientiane on March 12 to encourage people in Laos to vote for Vietnam’s Halong Bay as one of the seven new natural wonders of the world.
Vietnam has great potential in tourism, boasting famous beauty spots, world-recognised assets of natural and cultural heritage, a unique culture and diversified tourist services.
“It is crucial to comprehensively implement all 8 solution packages to develop tourism in Dalat City,†concluded more than 150 representatives at a workshop held in the central highland province Lam Dong on March 10.
Eighty-two doctor laureate steles in Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) in Hanoi has become Vietnam’s second historical documentary heritage to be listed in the list of UNESCO’s Global Memory of the World Programme.
Vietnam and China’s Sichuan Province will cooperate in promoting each other’s tourism by exchanging television programmes touting their tourism potential.
An American luxury cruise ship, the Nautica, docked at Cai Lan Port bringing 1,000 foreign tourists to the world heritage site of Halong Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh for the first time on March 9.