Duong Lam ancient village was presented with the award of merit of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation in Hanoi on February 18.
The number of tourists visiting the southern province of Tay Ninh during the first days of the Lunar New Year has surpassed 1 million, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang is working on a project to develop a national geopark in an effort to preserve natural and cultural values there.
Tay Thien Site, one of the most favourite tourist attractions in Tam Dao district, Vinh Phuc province, has geared up for the 2014 Tay Thien festival, said Diep Xuan Tu, head of the Tay Thien Site management board.
Vietnam ranked first in the number of tourists visiting Cambodia last year, with around 854,000 people, up 12% compared with 2012’s figure, according to a report from Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism.
As many as 400,000 pilgrims have flocked to the Con Son-Kiep Bac historical site in the northern province of Hai Duong since the first days of the Year of the Horse.
The Mekong Delta province of Long An on February 15 and 16 held a festival for “Don ca tai tu”, a musical art in southern Vietnam that has officially become a recognised UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
A Russian Ikar Airlines plane landed at Phu Quoc Air Terminal at 08.20am on February, bringing 250 Russia visitors to the district island.
President Truong Tan Sang’s February 15 New Year visit to Dong Mo’s Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups on the outskirts of Hanoi coincided with spring festival celebrations.
(TITC) - On February 13th 2014, the Tokyo’s Tourism Department (Japan) held a seminar on “Tokyo city promotion 2014” in Ha Noi (Viet Nam).
From February 7-10, the Vietnamese Embassy in Greece participated in the 9th international exhibition-fair on tourism and gastronomy (HORECA) in Greece’s capital city of Athens.
More than 1,000 local artists are slated to perform six popular xoe dances of the Thai ethnic minority people in Nghia Lo town of the northwestern mountainous province of Yen Bai on February 14.