The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is considering giving documentary heritage status to 82 doctor laureate steles at Hanoi’s Temple of Literature.
The Seoul-based National Museum of the Republic of Korea is holding an exhibition on Vietnamese ancient earthenware, the first ever hosted by the museum on ancient pottery from a Southeast Asian nation.
The International Kite Festival, held in Vung Tau, concluded on March 29 and was recognised as the country’s largest by the Vietnam Record Book Centre.
The Nam Hai seaside resort in the central province of Quang Nam has won a gold award at the annual Asia Spa & Wellness Festival, the region’s premier exhibition for the spa and wellness industry.
Nearly 1,000 athletes and artists from ethnic minority groups in six northwestern mountainous provinces are flocking to Lai Chau Province for a special festival which opened on March 28.
Vietnam’s sea tourism potential will be under the spotlight at a festival scheduled to take place in Paris from April 28-29.
The Cambodian Ministry of Tourism has decided to open a new tour that links its four coastal provinces with Phu Quoc Island of Vietnam.
On March 24, tens of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists attended a special royal ceremony named Xa Tac, which was traditionally dedicated to the Earth (Xa) and Cereal (Tac) Gods and has been revived in the former imperial capital of Hue.
Vietnamese Culture Week is being held in Lion, France, from March 16-20.
Linking Hanoi to Laos’ Luang Prabang Province through tourism was the main theme of a seminar held by the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Luang Prabang province’s Department of Tourism in Hanoi on March 20.
Thirteen Vietnamese companies have joined 3,000 travel businesses worldwide at the 16th Moscow International Travel and Tourism Exhibition (MITT) in Russia from March 18-21.
Nearly 1,900 international tourists were aboard the Arcadia, the second largest cruise ship in the British owned P&O cruise fleet when it docked in Halong on March 15.