Cham Island, 18km off the coast of Hoi An, will host a series programmes to mark the fifth anniversary of its recognition as a world biosphere reserve by UNESCO from Friday to Monday.
A well-known American dictionary, Merriam-Webster, has announced more than 150 new words and definitions for 2014, including the Vietnamese word “Pho”.
It is Deputy Minister Ho Anh Tuan’s speech at the press seminar to inform a situation of an international tourist to Viet Nam in May, 2014.
(TITC)- In the framework of Viet Nam Culture Days in Russia, Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) will launch tourism marketing promotion program in Moscow and St. Petersburg cities.
One of the relatively important solutions to developing the Viet Nam tourism sector in the current period is to shift its direction, emphasizing a preference for boosting high-spending markets.
The southern Tra Vinh provincial museum has collected 326 objects of antiquity of Khmer ethnic minority groups. The inventory includes 238 objects related to fishing and agriculture and 88 objects related to painting.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on May 14 officially recognised official documents of the Nguyen Dynasty as a world documentary heritage, according to the State Records and Archives Department.
Viet Nam ranked 2nd among the top 10 best value holiday destinations, according to leading global travel search site Skyscanner.
Over the past decade, the tourism sector in the central city of Da Nang has been developing sea tourism brand of its own, the Vietnam Economic News reported on May 14.
An estimated 344,000 tourists visited Van Don district, the northern province of Quang Ninh in the first four months of this year, fulfilling 47 percent of the year’s target and a year-on-year rise of 36 percent.
Ha Long Bay deemed a World Heritage site in 1994 in the northern province of Quang Ninh has been cited as one of the top eight most beautiful landscapes in the world by mymodernmet.com.
A seminar on preserving and promoting folk values in modern society will be held on May 14-15 as an activity of the compilation of a dossier on Vi-Giam folk singing for UNESCO recognition as a world intangible cultural heritage.