The Dong Xuan Trade Centre Women Association has joined a number of entrepreneurs in Berlin in organising the traditional and popular Full Moon Festival for Vietnamese children.
Thailand is working on an initiative to launch a tourist exchange program with Vietnam, seeking to realize the target of having one million travelers visiting each other country in five years or so, said an official of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).
The provincial government of Quang Nam awarded an investment certificate to two U.S. investors on October 1 to develop a big tourism complex worth over US$4 billion in the province, which is in fact the reduced scale of another bigger investment plan earlier approved in principle in the central province.
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has approved a plan worth VND9.8 billion (roughly USD540,000) to preserve the relic of a citadel built under Mac Dynasty (1592).
An exhibition of photos on Vietnam taken by Italian photographer Maurizio Cofini opened in Rome on October 1, drawing the participation of hundreds of Italians.
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has inscribed Vietnam’s Ca Tru on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on October 1.
The 5th International Travel Expo (ITE), the largest annual tourism event in Vietnam, kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on October 1.
China, the US and the Republic of Korea remain Vietnam’s largest tourism markets despite waning over-all numbers of foreign arrivals in September.
Vietnamese travellers to the US can save both time and money to renew their visas by mail, according to the US Embassy in Vietnam.
The scientific file on the Ho Dynasty Citadel has been sent to Paris for consideration by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as a world heritage site.
From September 30 all vehicles will have freedom of movement between the Samat international border gate in Tay Ninh Province in Vietnam and the TrapeangPlong border gate in KamPongCham Province, Cambodia.
The remains of a 1,200 year-old Cham sanctuary unearthed in Phu Vang District in Hue will undergo major protection works costing VND 560 million (USD 32,000) that are likely to be completed next year.