More than 70,000 tourists, including 31,500 foreigners, visited relic sites in the Hue Imperial City during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which lasted from January 26 to February 1.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh attended a ceremony to mark the 1977th anniversary of the Trung sisters’ uprising at Hai Ba Trung Temple, a special national relic site in Ha Noi’s Me Linh district on January 2 (the sixth day of the first lunar month).
A flight from Hong Kong with 172 passengers landed at Da Nang International Airport on January 28, bringing first tourists to the central city on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Engaging farmers in tourism is a new way to boost the sustainable development of the non-smoking industry in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
The central province of Thua Thien – Hue aims to establish a tourism trademark for Lang Co, which was listed as one of the most beautiful bays of the world by the Worldbays Club in 2009.
The central city of Da Nang is expected to welcome 100,356 foreign visitors in the Lunar New Year 2017, an increase of 26.6 percent year-on-year, according to the Department of Tourism.
In recent years, instead of welcoming in the Lunar New Year at home, many Vietnamese families have opted to go travelling to experience the Tet atmosphere in domestic and international destinations. Aiming to meet the demand, during this year’s Tet holiday, travel agents have launched attractive tours, along with a range of promotional programmes.
The traditional art of lacquerware in the southern province of Binh Duong’s Tuong Binh Hiep ward has been accredited as a national intangible heritage.
The central coastal province of Quang Binh plans to cooperate with TripAdvisor to promote tourism in the locality in order to achieve the set target for 2017.
The northern coastal province of Quang Ninh welcome 8.3 million tourists in 2016, an year-on-year increase of seven percent, with a remarkable surge in the border areas of Mong Cai and Binh Lieu.
The Ba Ria - Vung Tau provincial People’s Committee on January 16th announced the Decision establishing its Department of Tourism.
The entrance fees to Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay will be VND200,000-VND250,000 each route from April 1st, 2017.