Vietnam’s largest-ever tourism promotion program Impressive Vietnam has turned out a success by propelling the tourism industry’s revenue up 9% year-on-year to some VND70 trillion, but its bright side is limited to domestic travel only, officials said.
A seminar to collect ideas on effective measures to boost Vietnamese tourism was held in Hanoi on January 29. Speaking at the seminar, Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Van Tuan said that promotion campaigns have made important contributions to the tourism sector’s current achievements.
The Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) plans to hold its competition in the southern province of Binh Thuan next year, said PWA President Jimmy Diaz.
Visitors and local Hanoians will have somewhere new to enjoy Vietnamese art forms and Vietnamese cuisine, as a new cultural complex has recently opened in the capital city.
Hanoi’s preparations for the forthcoming 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi have been covered on Germany’s website Mirror.
The recovery in HCMC’s hospitality industry has been heralded in the first month of the year as the city earns an estimated VND3.1 trillion in tourism revenue, a sharp increase of 15% year-on-year, the tourism department says in a just-released report.
Saigon Tourist Travel Services, the leading tour operator in Vietnam, welcomed 2,000 crew and tourists from Costa Classica ship, for the second time this year.
The Tich Dien Mua Xuan (Spring Ploughing) Festival, which was initiated more than 1,000 years ago to promote agriculture, will take place in the northern province of Ha Nam from February 18-20 (from the fifth to seventh day of the first lunar month).
Twenty four teams representing the 24 districts of HCMC have registered to join the Banh Tet (traditional sticky rice cake) making contest to select the best cakes to worship the Hung Kings on February 12 (the 29th day of the 12th lunar month).
Tourism sector needs to focus on the local market, considering it as the sector’s key to future development, a high-ranking official has said.
60 foreign families participated in a Vietnamese square rice cake (banh chung) package contest at Seahorse Resort in the southern province of Binh Thuan on January 27.
Dossier of the Vietnamese Giong Festival which was sent to UNESCO for recognition as intangible cultural heritage has been said to have enough technical factors to submit to the UNSECO’s Intergovernmental Committee for further appraisal.