The Hanoi City People's Committee has unveiled a master plan on preserving the site of the ancient Thang Long Imperial Citadel and developing part of the area into a culture and history park.
The central province of Thua Thien - Hue has set a target of welcoming between 2 and 2.5 million visitors during the National Tourism Year 2012 for the North Central Region, with a series of cultural activities, tourist products and new infrastructure.
Despite the global economic downturn, the number of foreign tourists traveling to Vietnam by sea increased sharply in the first seven months of this year.
Welcomed over 3.8 million foreign arrivals in the January-July period, up 10.8 percent over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.
(TITC)- Lao Cai is a province in the Northwestern mountainous region of Viet Nam where is home to 27 ethnic groups with special traditional characteristics. The province is also endowed with beautiful landscapes, impressive caves and ancient rocks of over hundreds of thousands of years... thus creating a huge tourism potential for provincial tourism development.
An exhibition of ancient Vietnamese artifacts and an Oc Eo-Phu Nam civilisation room were jointly opened in Hanoi on July 25 by the Vietnam National Museum of History and the Thang long Artifacts Association.
The Trang An Tourism Complex in the northern province of Ninh Binh has great historical and geological value, experts declared at an international workshop held in Ninh Binh on July 24.
(TITC) - On 24th July 2012, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) and the Quang Ninh People's Committee held an int'l conference on "preserving and developing the values of Ha Long Bay world natural heritage - new vision" in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province.
The Vietnam Culture Heritage Association coordinated with the Vietnam Heritage Magazine to launch a photo contest titled "Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards" for local and foreign photographers living in the country, aged 18 and above.
Toi Linh Tu (the Highest Celestial) Temple in the Hue Citadel, built in the early 20th century, has been restored with German assistance and is again open to visitors.
Ho Chi Minh City has recently been again ranked among the world's top ten cities for street foods in a list made by travel website VirtualTourist.com.
Hanoi will develop six key tourism clusters centred on different features in and near the city, according to a plan approved by the People's Council last week.