The Dalat Flower Festival 2012, the fourth of its kinds, opened in the Central Highlands city of Dalat over the weekend, featuring a wide range of flower themes and a series of cultural and artistic activities. The festival which costs VND17 billion in organization has attracted thousands of …

HA NOI – Viet Nam expects to welcome its six millionth international visitor for the year, marking a successful year for the country’s tourism sector, the National Administration of Tourism said.

In the first 11 months of the year, the sector saw a year-on-year increase of 17.8 per cent in the number of international visitors, meeting the target set for the full year of 5.4 million.

Numerous tourism programmes were drawcards, including Carnival Week in Ha Long Bay; an International Fireworks Competition in Da Nang City; Marine Week in Nha Trang City; various activities of the National Tourism Year in southern coastal provinces.

China remains the largest market for Vietnamese tourism with 1.2 million visitors, an increase of 49 per cent over the same period last year. – VNS

 

  by Minh Thu   Low-impact living: The Old Quarter in Hoi An invites foreign tourists to join local community life. — VNA/VNS Photo Vu Cong Dien Tipplers: Foreign tourists enjoy wine drunk from a jar through pipes of Mo Nong ethnic people in the Central Highlands pro…

Television and movies bridge cultural and continental divides more than any other medium. In 1999 while moving to the Upper East Side Georgette Blau realized she lived near the apartment used in The Jeffersons. Using her passion for classic television and cinema as inspiration, Blau …

A festival celebrating the culture, sports and tourist attractions of the Hong (Red) River Delta provinces opened on Oct. 14 in province Thai Binh. The theme of the first regional festival in the province is “Culture – Motherland’s Silt – Convergence and Enlightenment.”  

The German travel company Gebeco on Oct. 16 held a night to introduce Vietnam and Mekong tourism within the framework of the freshly-ended 2009 Asia-Pacific Week in Berlin.

Travelling by air from place to place can be a convenient way to explore the country on a tight schedule, but it removes travellers away from one of the more interesting parts of the country.