Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2013 will be held from April 4 to 7 in September 23 Park, District 1, according the City’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The festival, themed “Ho Chi Minh City Tourism: Trademark – Integration – Development”, will include a festival to honour the leading trademarks of the city, an exhibition of beautiful photographs on Vietnam tourism, the first HCMC young tourism ambassadors competition, and other sporting activities to [...]

On March 5th 2013, in Ha Noi, Mr. Hoang Tuan Anh – Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MOCST) chaired a working session on preparation for organizing international travel marts in 2013. Attending the working session were representatives of the departments of MOCST and the National Administration of Tourism; delegates from Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City and Khanh Hoa. This is the first time four international travel marts will be organized in a year [...]

An exhibition on Japanese traditional dolls will open in Hanoi on March 7th to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties. The exhibition will introduce a collection of more than 40 Japanese traditional dolls, such as dolls wearing kimono, and kokeshi wooden dolls made by artisan Aoki Masaru. Before the exhibition, artisan Aoki Masaru will come to Hanoi, from February 23rd to 26th, to renew the doll collection. Visitors interested in this artistic collection [...]

Hoi An city received the Top City in the World award voted by Wanderlust Magazine’s readers at a ceremony in the central province of Quang Nam on February 23. The ancient town came out with a whopping 97.18 percent satisfaction rating. According to the UK’s leading travel magazine, nearly 3,000 of its readers voted in this year’s awards. Speaking at the ceremony, Le Van Giang, Chairman of the Hoi An City People’s Committee, stressed that [...]

France will exhibit its woven products during Hue Traditional Craft Festival from April 27 to May 1, 2013, according to Thua Thien-Hue Province People’s Committee. French artisans will introduce five cloth weaving techniques, including Lyon silk weaving of Prelle factory since 1880, and the velvet and crease-creating technique of Benoit Toscan d’Amiens. The woven products of Saint Etienne de la Satab, Aubusson carpet, and a French weaving initiative will also be showcased. The exhibition is [...]

The Culture and tourism week in Van Phuc silk village started up on February 19th at Van Phuc Temple, Ha Dong district, Hanoi. The cultural activity responds to the National Tourism Year of Red River Delta 2013 and aims to preserve and promote the beautiful cultural features of the silk village. The event is also an excellent opportunity for the village to popularize its beautiful silk products to international visitors, promote trade and tourism, as [...]

The Long Tong (going to the field) festival got underway in Bo Lu field, Nam Mau commune, Ba Be district of Bac Kan province on February 19 (the tenth day of the first lunar month). This is the biggest agricultural festival of the northern mountainous province and Viet Bac region (including six provinces of Bac Kan , Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang, Cao Bang, Lang Son, and Ha Giang). Local ethnic groups offered trays of local [...]

Tens of thousands of monks, nuns, Buddhists and tourists from Vietnam and abroad have flocked to pagodas and Spring festivals at the beginning of the Year of the Snake, wishing for peace, good weather, happiness and prosperity. On February 15, the sixth day of the lunar year, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc beat a drum to mark the opening of the Bai Dinh pagoda festival in Gia Sinh commune, Gia Vien district in the [...]

Life changes everyday and there are many differences to today’s traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival compared to past Tets. Despite each person’s individual feelings and whatever the changes are, for photographers, Tet will always reflect Hanoian culture. Photos depicting Tet in Hanoi in the 1990s, taken by photojournalists Steve Raymer and Nevada Wier, have become rare today. Through these, Hanoians were featured simple and unpretentious and Hanoians’ Tet was compared to a flavour that can [...]

A Hanoi culture exhibition, jointly organised by the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the city’s Library, opened on February 5. Hundreds of books, articles, and photographs depicting Hanoian culture are on display at the library. Visitors get a glimpse of daily life and customs, costumes and cuisine. Visitor Tran Thi Nhu Lan from Hai Ba Trung district, said Hanoian culture is besieged by modern life styles. She hopes more and more similar [...]

Various cultural activities will be organized at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology from February 15th to 17th as part of the “Spring Celebration” program, co- organized by the museum and the Yen Bai provincial Culture, Sports and Tourism Department. The program aims to create a playground for visitors during the Lunar New Year Festival and to contribute to preserving and promoting the cultural heritages of localities and ethnic groups. Accordingly, cultural activities and special dishes [...]

The ceremony to receive world heritage recognition for the practice of Hung Kings worship will take place on the occasion of the Hung Kings Festival 2013, on April 13th (the 4th day of the third lunar month). To prepare for the ceremony and Hung Kings Festival 2013, the Hung Temple historical relic has completed the upgrading of car parks, working houses, reception houses, Lac Long Quan Temple, and pavements. UNESCO recognized Vietnam’s Hung King worship [...]