An exhibition promoting Japan’s Kokeshi Wooden Dolls is opening at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Hanoi, offering visitors the chance to explore Japanese culture and the country’s doll making craft.
The total number of travelers visiting the capital in May stood at an estimated 1.88 million, including 85,000 foreign arrivals, representing a 16-fold rise compared to the same period from last year, according to figures given by the Hanoi Department of Tourism.
The debut version of the Vietnam International Fashion Tour (VIFT) will get underway in 2022 and 2023 across five cities and provinces, with the aim of popularizing the country’s culture and tourism to the world, said organisers.
Hanoi welcomed 700,000 domestic tourists and 31,448 foreigners who visited or participated in events of the recently concluded SEA Games 31, the municipal Department of Tourism announced on May 24.
The Hanoi Cuisine and Handicraft Villages Tourism Festival has opened to visitors in Le Quang Dao Street in Nam Tu Liem district to entertain SEA Games visitors.
Travel companies in Hanoi have organised 28 tours for coaches, athletes and guests to the 31st Southeast Asian Games, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
Fourteen hotels meeting international standards, with more than 3,000 rooms, were selected by the Hanoi Department of Tourism to accommodate international delegations, athletes, and reporters.
A 100-booth tourism gift trade fair of Hanoi is scheduled to run from April 29 to May 1 at the pedestrian street around Hoan Kiem Lake, as part of the efforts to revive the local tourism and activities to welcome the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31).
The night tour of the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi will return during the coming National Reunification Day and May Day holidays after a year-long hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts.
The Friendship Journey 2022, a cultural exchange aiming at helping enhance Vietnam’s relations with international friends, was held in Hanoi’s Quoc Oai district on April 24.
The People’s Committee of Ba Dinh district has submitted a proposal to the Hanoi People’s Committee on the organisation of two night-time pedestrian spaces around Ngoc Khanh lake and Dao Ngoc-Ngu Xa peninsula on Truc Bach lake.
In order to introduce typical and high-class Italian cuisine to tourists and Hanoi residents, Sheraton Hanoi Hotel in coordination with several Italian partners in Vietnam organised a series of Italian culinary events in 2022 with the participation of Chef Nguyen Cong Chung, the first Vietnamese to win the title of “Asia’s Chef Hotelier of the Year”.