(TITC) - On April 24th 2013, in Ha Noi, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Khanh Hai had a meeting with Deputy General Director of Uzbekistan National Administration of Tourism Anvar P. Temirkhodjaev. The meeting had the attendance of Deputy General Director of VNAT Nguyen Quoc Hung.
Europe Days 2013 in Vietnam to mark Europe Day (May 9) will feature a series of cultural and intellectual events, according to Dr. Franz Jessen, Ambassador-Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Vietnam.
Tourist attractions nationwide were crowded with domestic and foreign visitors during the April 30 - May 1 holidays.
More than 900 delegations, including over 20,000 tourists, visited President Ho Chi Minh's home town in Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan district, central Nghe An Province, during the five-day Reunification Day and May Day holidays.
Banyan Tree Group of Singapore on April 27 put into service the integrated resort complex of Laguna Lang Co located in Lang Co town, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
Vietnam welcomed more than 610,000 foreign visitors in April, representing a year-on-year decrease of 2.4 percent, according to the General Statistics Office.
President of the Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation Hiroyasu Ando is on a three-day visit to Vietnam, with the aim of furthering cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Hanoi will host many diversified and specific artistic performance programmes on the occasion of the great festivals.
Up to 70 percent of the 1,300 hotel rooms in Tam Dao in northern Vinh Phuc province have been booked by international and domestic tourists, although there is still nearly one week to go before the five-day national holiday from April 27 to May 1.
A seminar was held in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on April 22 to discuss measures to develop human resource for the tourism sector in the Mekong Delta region.
Malaysia is a key market Vietnam's tourism industry should focus on in order to broaden its customer base.
The former Hue imperial city in central Thua Thien-Hue province and Laos' Luang Prabang city will cooperate in the management, preservation and upholding of cultural heritage values.