The Saigon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) welcomed 2,000 foreign tourists and crew sailing aboard the cruise liner Costa Classica, which berthed at the Navi Oil Port in Ho Chi Minh City on January 12.
Prestigious awards will be at stage when some young upstarts take on veteran performers at the National Professional Tuong (classical drama) Festival that has opened in Danang’s Nguyen Hien Dinh Theatre.
Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have officially asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for the "Hoang Sa Tribute Rituals" to be given national festival status.
A special programme will be held to welcome overseas Vietnamese when they return home on the occasion of the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.
The Tianjin art troupe from China will tour Vietnam from January 16-22.
The Hoi An International Tourism Centre in Central Quang Nam Province has received its first international motor tour from Singapore to Vietnam.
A ceremony to inaugurate the statue of Emperor Quang Trung, who defeated Qing Dynasty’s 200,000 troops out of Vietnam in the spring of 1789, was held at the Ban Mountain square in the ancient imperial city of Hue on January 9.
HCMC, the country’s biggest tourism center, has mapped out a plan for launching a tourism marketing campaign at home and abroad to speed up a recovery of the sector hurt by the global downturn last year.
The giant statue of the Goddess of Mercy, which is made from the largest jade block in the world, will be brought to Vietnam in mid-January 2010.
An exhibition of 140 outstanding paintings by Vietnamese children aged between 6 and 14 is being held in Paris from January 5-31.
Archaeologists from the Archaeology Institute and the museum of central province of Khanh Hoa have discovered more than 2,000 objects dating back to 2,000-2,500 years ago at the Vinh Yen archaeological site in Van Ninh District.
Among the most valuable artefacts left by the Nguyen Dynasty is King Tu Duc’s gravestone, with an engraving by the king in which he takes a critical look at himself.