A photographic exhibition called "glimpses of Vietnam" opened in Choisy le Roi city, about 20km from Paris, on September 9.
An international caravan delegation left the former imperial city of Hue on September 7 after traveling through China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
(TITC) - From 2004 to 2010, Dien Bien Province has invested in community-based tourism development in eight cultural villages of Dien Bien District and Dien Bien Phu City.
Over the past years, traditional craft villages in the southern provinces of Tien Giang, Dong Thap, An Giang, Tay Ninh and Ba Ria-Vung Tau have proved popular destinations for travel companies. However, due to lack poor planning and limited tourist products, these villages have been unable to cash in on return visits.
Many tourism sites in Vietnam have attracted a large numbers of holiday-goers and tourists.
More than 47,700 people paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum on National Day (September 2) and the previous day.
The central province of Quang Nam hosted a record 2.3 million tourists in the first eight months of this year, earning VND3 trillion (US$143 million).
(TITC) - After planning many times, in July 2012, Bernard Picasso's family, the grandson of famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, left for Viet Nam to visit.
The preservation and development of the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) cultural features must respect principles of diversity, said Luong Hong Quang, deputy head of the Vietnam Institute of Culture and Arts Studies.
With a recent strong growth in international arrivals from Russia, Vietnam's tourism has picked this country as one of the three major source markets, together with South Korea and Japan, to focus promotion activities on.
With the aim to fully exploit the tourism potential, to make tourism to be a key economic sector of Bac Binh district, the district's authorities is mobilizing all resources to invest in marine tourism and ecotourism.
Historical relic Con Dao is proving a magnet to visitors and investors. The image of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province's Con Dao island has over the past months appeared consecutively in the world-famous television channels and magazines like France's TF1 television channel, the US's New York Times and Travel and Leisure magazines and the UK's Lonely Planet magazine.