More than 300 people and representatives of international organisations and travel agents from five countries in the Mekong sub-region and Japan attended the opening ceremony of the Mekong-Japan Tourism and Culture Days in Can Tho City on December 2.
Tourism authorities of southern cities and provinces as well as entrepreneurs will organize a road show in Cambodia to promote tourism as well as to make a chance for local investors to develop tourism properties there, a tourism official said.
Ancient works by the skilful artisans of Quat Dong embroidery village are on display at the Vietnamese History Museum in Hanoi.
Saigontourist Travel Service Company on November 30 welcomed some 2,000 tourists on board the Costa Classica cruise liner in HCMC, which is the third trip on November to Vietnam by the five-star Costa Classica.
The Nam Hai Resort in the central province of Quang Nam picked up the Quality Award by the Leading Hotels of the World at the prestigious hospitality organisation’s 8th Annual International Convention in Venice, Italy.
Vietnam welcomed 387,870 foreign arrivals in November, representing a many-fold increase over October.
Work on the largest-ever embroidery painting is expected to be complete by October next year, in time for the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
A photography exhibition was held in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on December 1 to mark the 34th anniversary of Laos’ National Day (December 2, 1975-2009).
Vietnam’s Thang Long Water Puppetry Theatre participated in the 8th Asian Performing Arts Festival (APAF) in Tokyo from November 26-29. The festival was also attended by art troupes from Seoul (the Republic of Korea), Taipei (Taiwan, China), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Manila (the Philippines), New Deli (Indea) and Tokyo (Japan).
Tai tu music troupes from 15 southern provinces ended competition in the Southern Tai Tu Festival in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta’s Hau Giang Province on November 30.
Almost one year away from the Hanoi-Thang long millennium event, but the capital city has been heating up with celebrations, including contests on stamp designing, poems and music composition for the October 10, 2010 festivities.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has held a working session with EU experts recently to coordinate work on the second phase of the tourism human resource development project in Vietnam.