The Hanoi Craft Week 2010 opened at a ceremony on August 4 as part of activities to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Young Vietnamese entrepreneurs will join a caravan named “Thang Long Millennial - Cultural Journey†on October 4 to mark the millennium of the capital city.
Danang will create new policies to encourage investors to develop key tourism areas, including Ba Na Tourist Site, Son Tra Peninsula and the beaches of My Khe and Non Nuoc. The local government plans to focus on tourist safety and invest in improving infrastructure, transportation and flight schedules.
Hanoi and Danang will become the country’s first two cities to launch a big sale program designed to spur consumer spending and shopping tourism.
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has spent more than VND20 billion (about USD1.04 million) on building and restoring Rong house (communal house), the traditional and spiritual home of the local ethnic minority groups.
The Thang Long-Hanoi website of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) officially launched its Japanese language version on August 3.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has approved a plan to develop tourism as a key economic sector in the Mekong Delta.
A total of 120 photos on China’s world heritage sites are on display at an exhibition in Hanoi.
Monument inscriptions in Han Chinese and Nom (old Vietnamese script based on Chinese characters) at the royal citadel in Hue will be submitted to UNESCO to be recognised as a World Document Heritage.
The tourism sector will plant a flag on the nation’s highest mountain, the Fansipan in the northern province of Lao Cai to mark the capital city’s millennium birthday.
Members of the public and incoming passengers have been reminded to comply with the new measure on the quantity of tobacco products that they may bring into Hong Kong since August 1, 2010.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has invited tourism agencies, hoteliers and travel firms to join a marketing program in Germany, Belgium and France later this month.