2013 Culture Day of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups will take place at the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups on April 19.
(TITC)- On March 30th 2013, in Ha Noi, Mr Le Xuan Than, Vice chairman of Khanh Hoa People's Committee and head of the festival organizing board chaired a press conference on Nha Trang Sea Festival 2013 and the International Sea Travel Expo Nha Trang – Viet Nam 2013.
The northern province of Phu Tho held its first Chung cake and Day cake making contest on March 31, beginning a wide range of activities to commemorate the death anniversary of the Hung Kings and celebrate the 2013 Hung Kings Temple Festival.
The Phu Yen provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has held an exchange, a photo exhibition and an art performance between Phu Yen province (Vietnam) and Chungbuk province (Republic of Korea - RoK).
On March 28th, a show on world heritage sites of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam opened at the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture, under the regulation of UNESCO in Vietnam in combination with nine museums of the three countries.
Vietnam greeted more than 587,000 foreign tourists in March 2013, a 1.6 percent rise from the same month last year. This figure brought the total number of foreign tourists to the country so far this year to more than 1.8 million, a year-on-year reduction of 6.2 percent, according to the General Statistics Office.
The south central Khanh Hoa provincial People's Committee has approved a project to teach Russian to tourism staff in the 2013-2015 period.
Mekong Delta region attracted more than 19.4 million visitors in 2012 and earned about 4.3 trillion VND from tourism-related activities, an increase of 23.2 percent compared with the previous year, according to newly-released statistics.
A meeting was held in Hanoi on March 27 to discuss how to boost cooperation in culture and fine arts between Vietnam and Cambodia in 2013 and the subsequent years.
(TITC)- On March 21, 2013 in Ha Noi, the launching ceremony of the Photo contest and National Photo Exhibition was organized by the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibitions in collaboration with Hai Phong Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists.
In the first quarter of 2013, the number of foreign tourists to Ho Chi Minh City was estimated at more than 1 million, a year-on-year rise of 8 percent and 25.6 percent of the year's target, announced the city's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Vietnam will work closely with Niger on a cultural cooperation agreement to be signed in the near future. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh made the statement while receiving Niger's Minister of Communication, New Information Technologies and Culture Salifou Labo Bouche in Hanoi on March 26.