Vietnam Travel News

In four months’ time, the dossier for Hat Xoan (Xoan singing) will be submitted to UNESCO for its recognition as an intangible World Cultural Heritage in need of urgent protection.

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 new air route from Taipei in Taiwan will officially commence on December 26, according to the Danang City People’s Committee.

Various activities were held before the opening ceremony of the Mekong-Japan Culture and Tourism Festival, which officially took place in the evening in Can Tho city on Dec. 2.

Vietnam officially submitted two new profiles for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisaton (UNESO)’s “World Memory” programme in Asia-Pacific on November 30.

A file on the 82 doctoral laureates steles in Van Mieu ( Temple of Literature ) in Hanoi has been sent to UNESCO for consideration as a world documentation heritage, said General Secretary of UNESCO Vietnam Pham Sanh Chau.

Vietnam hopes to receive around 4.2 to 4.5 million international visitors in 2010, said Nguyen Van Tuan, Head of the Vietnam National Tourism Administration, at a recent seminar on the sector’s strategy for 2020 with its vision for 2030, in Hanoi.

As a way to develop sustainable tourism, as well as maintaining national cultural identity, and increasing the people’s standards of living, a seminar on promoting investment in culture, sports and tourism in the south was held in the southern province of Binh Duong

Representatives of the German national airline say the air carrier plans to open the direct air route Hanoi-Berlin during the visit of Andreas Timmerman, Director of the Foreign Trade and Trade Promotion Department under the Economy Ministry of Brandenburg state.

Thanks to effective advertising campaigns, the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam has resumed its steady climb, said the chief of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Van Tuan.

Traveling to South East Asian countries by air is quite popular but it is more interesting and rewarding to reach these destinations by road.

Tourism authorities of southern cities and provinces as well as entrepreneurs will organize a road show in Cambodia next month to promote tourism as well as to make a chance for local investors to develop tourism properties there, a tourism official said.

Vietnam is finding cultural tourism a hard sell to investors, concedes Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Danh Nga.

Eighteen ghe ngo (Khmer boat) teams from every Mekong Delta district with a Khmer population participated in a two-day race which ended yesterday, December 1, on Xa No Canal in Hau Giang Province's Vi Thanh Town.

After over six hours, more than 400 students completed a mural of over 100m length and1.5m width, the longest environmental painting in Vietnam.