To respond to the programme 2010 to stimulate the tourist industry, “Vietnam-Your Destination,†initiated by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, HCMC’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will organise and encourage a range of events to attract domestic and foreign tourists.
The Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnamese Students’ Association (VSA) in the UK jointly held a music programme entitled “Memory of a love†in London on May 29.
An exhibition of Vietnamese pictures collected by G. Ponsanh, a Belgian Vietnam lover, has opened at the University of Liege in Liege city, Belgium, and will run until July 10. The collection on display features 140 paintings by famous Vietnamese painters like Bui Xuan Phai, Pham Van Mui, Pham Van Don, Nguyen Tu Nghiem, Tran Van Can and Nguyen Tien Chung.
A seminar was held in Phu Quoc island district in the southern province of Kien Giang on May 28 to discuss how to develop tourism in the Mekong Delta region.
The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), Hoang Tuan Anh, visited Mexico from May 23-28 to strengthen bilateral ties in fields under his charge.
The fifth Vietnam International FICTS Festival – Sport, Tourism Movies and TV opened in the central city of Danang on May 27. Franco B. Ascani, President of the Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (FICTS), was among guests to the festival.
Nearly 50 photos on land and people of Vietnam taken by Italian photographer Maurizio Cofini are on display at an exhibition in Rome.
Work on the casting of a bell in celebration of the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi began at Quang An Pagoda in Hanoi’s outlying district of Thanh Tri on May 27. Once completed, the bell will have a diameter of 2.5m and a height of 3.5m and weigh 7 tonnes.
India’s famous dance troupe Odissi will perform in Hanoi on June 4 during their visit to Vietnam to attend the Hue Festival 2010.
Foreign arrives into Vietnam increased by 50.3% year on year to 440,000 in May, bringing the total number of foreign arrivals to 2.2 million in the first five months of the year or 37.7% over the same period last year.
The “Vietnam Week†and a photo exhibition on Vietnam kicked off in Mexico on May 25 as part of activities to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Mexico diplomatic ties.
Vietnamese folk singing or “Quan Ho Bac Ninh†has been included in the list of “Best in Asia 2010†published by the US magazine The Times. In an article entitled “Dial-a-Lovely-Old-Song†by Martha Ann Overland on May 13, the magazine categorised Vietnamese folk singing in the “The Best of Soul†section.