Central Quang Binh province received more than 3 million visitors, including 129,700 foreign tourists during the first nine months of this year, up 18.4% over the same period last year, and earning VND3,300 billion in total revenue, according to the provincial Department of Tourism.
The resort island of Phu Quoc in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang expects to welcome about 2.5 million tourist arrivals in 2018, up 25 percent from last year.
Archaeologists have discovered cultural traces of prehistoric people in limestone caves in Chiem Hoa district of the northern province of Tuyen Quang, said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Trinh Nang Chung of the Viet Nam Institute of Archaeology on September 24.
A delegation of 25 travel businesses from 12 countries of France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Turkey will carry out a fact-finding tour of Ha Noi’s tourist attractions from October 4-14.
The annual Sa Pa international mountain marathon 2018, the sixth of its kind, took place in Sa Pa district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on September 21-23, as part of the Sa Pa autumn festival 2018.
The number of tourists visiting the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh in the first nine months of this year is estimated to top 10 million, an increase of 25 percent over the same period last year, according to the local Department of Tourism.
The Nghinh Ong (Whale Worship) festival is scheduled to take place in Can Thanh, Can Gio district in Ho Chi Minh City on September 23 -25.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival comes sooner for Ha Noi children, and colourful of toys and drumbeats are everywhere. More and more agencies, units and parents have organised events, bought toys, guided children to play folk games. Although society is becoming more modern, the children still enjoy the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.
Ha Noi will continue to cooperate with the US Cable News Network (CNN) to promote tourism industry in the 2019-2021 period as it is a great way to popularize the city's image to the world, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
Huong Pagoda has been recognised as a special national relic site.
Over half a century of preserving and promoting the values of its historical and cultural sites, Ha Noi has achieved remarkable results in research, preserving and evoking the potential hidden values of the monuments.
The National Museum of Nature on September 18 announced new details on a discovery of prehistoric corpses in the volcanic caves in Krong No, the central highlands province of Dak Nong.