First pedestrian street launched in Mong Cai City

This is the first walking street in Mong Cai city, contributing to speeding up the city’s tourism and trade development. Together with the inauguration of the walking street, the city also organised a ceremony to announce OCOP (One Commune, One Product) brands such as white-leg shrimp, Tra Co crab and Mong Cai pork.

On the sidelines, a street festival will be organised with various programmes such as art firework display, dragon dance, drum beating, Flashmob, Grand and Hawai performances.

In addition, delegates, people and tourists will have a chances to visit OCOP kiosks, taste free Sai Gon beer and enjoy performances by street music bands./.

First pedestrian street launched in Mong Cai City

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Quang Nam moves to develop tourism

Quang Nam is home to three famous attractions – the World Cultural Heritage Sites of Hoi An Ancient Town and My Son Sanctuary, and the World Biosphere Reserve surrounding the Cham Islands.

Hoi An, recognised by UNESCO as a heritage site in 1999, is an old trading port that dates back to the 15th century. Its architecture and layout reflect the indigenous and foreign influences that melted together to produce the unique character of the town.

My Son Sanctuary is a cluster of abandoned and partially ruined Cham temples. Constructed between the 4th and the 13th century AD, it used to be the religious and political capital of the Champa Kingdom.

Meanwhile, the Cham Islands (Cu Lao Cham) constitute a group of eight islets, which form part of the Cu Lao Cham Marine Park, a World Biosphere Reserve also recognised by UNESCO. The islands are well-known for their rich marine ecosystems with more than 300 species of coral, as well as beautiful sand beaches and forested hills.

However, the advantages and potential of these tourist attractions have yet to be fully tapped, especially those of the Cham Islands.

According to Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Dinh Hai, the province is carrying out appropriate investment policies, actively coordinating with the business community, and focusing on domestic tourists to improve the situation.

Quang Nam has also pledged favourable conditions for enterprises and localities to diversify tourist products and improve their quality at the famous destinations.

With the support from Mangroves for the Future (MFF), the Cu Lao Cham Marine Conservation Centre has coordinated with local residents to implement a project restoring coral reefs around the Cham Islands to attract more tourists, especially those fond of diving.

A number of new tourist products have also been introduced, including tours to traditional trade villages of fishermen.

Last year, the central coastal province welcomed 1.7 million tourists.

Quang Nam moves to develop tourism

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Photo contest set for central regions

The association, in collaboration with Da Nang"s Literature and Arts Union and the Da Nang department of culture, sport and tourism, said the contest will kick off on July 30 for candidates in 10 cities and provinces.

Each contestant should send eight colour or black-and-white photos under each of two themes: Land and People in the Central and Central Highlands Regions and The Homeland"s Rivers.

The organising committee will select and display photos from August 3 to 8, and announce the winners on August 7.

According to VAPA, another photo contest will be held for photography artists in the central city from August 26 to 28.

Photo contest set for central regions

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Ho Chi Minh City sees foreign arrival rise

May’s figure raised foreign arrivals in the city to over 1.85 million in the past five months, reflecting a rise of 5 percent year on year.

The outcomes were attributed to a number of measures being employed by the authority to attract more visitors in 2015.

The city’s tourism sector has organised a wide range of domestic and international promotional events, such as the Southern Cuisine Festival or the Southern Fruit Festival.

A series of books and maps have been published in English in order to help international tourists around town.

The city also launched a website and hotline (call 1087) to provide tourism information.

The municipal Department of Tourism plans to improve the quality and diversity of tourism services, including waterway tourism and art performances throughout the city.

Ho Chi Minh City sees foreign arrival rise

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Quang Ninh welcomes over 4.77 million tourist arrivals in five months

Of this, foreign arrivals reached 1.15 million, a 4% increase over a year earlier and tourist arrivals staying overnight were over 1.65 million, also a 4% rise against the same period last year.

Total tourism turnover in the five months hit VND2.72 trillion, 41.9% of the year’s plan or a year-on-year increase 21%.

The result came from the province’s successfully organising the Ha Long-Quang Ninh Tourism Week 2015 with a series of significant activities and programs, especially the Ha Long carnival./.

Quang Ninh welcomes over 4.77 million tourist arrivals in five months

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Overall plan to develop tourism in Viet Nam’s South Central Coast

The South Central Coast of Viet Nam includes Da Nang City and the seven provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and BinhThuan, covering nearly 44,376.9 km2.

My Khe Beach in Da Nang

The overall plan will focus on developing both domestic and foreign tourist markets, with the target at attracting Northeastern Asian, Russian, East European, Southeast Asian, Indian and Turkish markets; developing recreation tourism, tourism products in combination with world cultural heritage sites and organising space for tourism development such as tourism areas, destinations and routes.

In addition, investing in developing tourism by budget capital (including ODA), FDI capital and capital mobilized from organisations and enterprises and prioritizing investment in 9 national tourism areas, 6 national tourism destinations and 4 tourism development programmes were included in the overall plan.

The overall plan set the specific objectives of attracting 15 million tourist arrivals, of which, international tourists are hoped to reach about 4.5 million arrivals by 2020 and 25 million domestic and 7.5 million foreign arrivals by 2030. The total revenue is expected to reach VND70 trillion by 2020 and with the goal of VND160 trillion by 2030.

Job indicators include creating jobs for over 400,000 employees by 2020, including more than 130,000 direct employees and striving to create jobs for 700,000 employees by 2030, of which it is hoped 230,000 will be direct employees.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Dang Thi Bich Lien said that the overall objectives of the plan were to exploit the potential and advantages of the region to develop sea-island tourism into the leading strength of the country’s tourism sector. Developing modern urban tourism areas and national tourism facilities with superior services was another objective.

The country strives to turn tourism into an important economic sector by 2020 and a key economic sector in the economic structure of the region by 2030, contributing to asserting national sovereignty and sovereignty rights on Vietnam’s sea and islands./.

Overall plan to develop tourism in Viet Nam’s South Central Coast

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Children festival 2015 at Viet Nam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism

The event will be organized by the Management Board of the Viet Nam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in coordination with the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition, the Cultural Heritage Association of Viet Nam, T80 Friendship School and several primary and secondary schools in Ha Noi.

Diverse activities such as an exhibition on Vietnamese and international kites and workshops on kite-making by 15 to 20 artisans; an exhibition on children’s paintings on love for the homeland; Vietnamese traditional games and art performances will be held during the festival.

The event aims to popularize ethnic culture and create a useful playground for children, contributing to organize regular activities to meet the increasing demand of tourists.

This will be an opportunity to educate children in life skills as well as improve their knowledge and understandings on ethnic culture for children.

Children festival 2015 at Viet Nam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism

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