To make Quoc Oai District a magnet for visitors, the local government planned to improve service quality and work with travel agencies to include its destinations in tour itineraries.

From sunrise workouts in bustling parks to cleaner meals on family tables, Vietnam is quietly embracing a lifestyle centred on health and wellness.

Locals look forward to the holiday season, and Hanoi's Old Quarter is a hive of activity as Christmas preparations get underway.

Hanoi People’s Committee plans to open nine more pedestrian areas in the Old Quarter in October this year.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Hanoi People’ Committee jointly organised the Vietnam’s tourism promotion programme in France’s Paris capital on September 20.

This fall (Oct. 10 – Nov. 23) sees the launch of the first food festival at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi where there will be headline chef demos, foodie talks, wine tastings and terrific live music for all to enjoy.

According to the municipal People’s Committee, Hanoi plans to build more luxury hotels with some 20,000 rooms in downtown areas in the Capital City’s prime locations in the next five years, as part of its efforts to promote tourism.

The Hanoi Urban Environment Company in collaboration with Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) held a ceremony to launch the Vietnam’s first industrial waste power-generating system in Hanoi’s suburban district of Soc Son on September 16.

Hanoi city proposes to honour the best film on an urban topic at the upcoming fourth Hanoi International Film Festival, Director of the Hanoi Culture and Information Department To Van Dong said at a press conference in Hanoi on September 15.

Hanoi will create favourable conditions and support policies for better links between producers and traders in order to bring safe farm products to consumers.

A special programme to celebrate 2016 mid-autumn festival in ASEAN countries was kicked off at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts (VECCA) in Hanoi on September 13.

Hanoi People`s Committee opened the exhibition on cooperation between the capital and France’s Toulouse city in preserving and promoting values of the city`s Old Quarter over the past 20 years last weekend.

Hanoi People`s Committee has issued a notice announcing the conclusion of Vice Chairman Ngo Van Quy on the implementing Hanoi`s tourism promotion on CNN channel.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau will interact with the audience at the Autumn Book Fair 2016 scheduled to take place at Hanoi`s Thong Nhat Park from September 9-13.

After the talks in the morning of September 6, French President Francois Hollande took an afternoon walk the streets of the Old Quarter in Hanoi during his State visit to Vietnam from September 5-7.

Director of the Hanoi Department of Tourism Do Dinh Hong believed that the pilot of opening more walking area around Hoan Kiem Lake from September 1 is an important event to lure more domestic and foreign visitors to the capital this year.

Hanoi People`s Committee and Sun Group on September 2 held a ground breaking ceremony of the Kim Quy cultural, tourism and amusement park (called Kim Quy Park Project) in Vinh Ngoc Commune, Hanoi’s suburban district of Dong Anh.

Traditional medical treatment long-term attached to the livelihoods of Dao Ethnic in Ba Vi Commune, Ba Vi district. Through esoteric remedies of his own peoples, Dao people accumulated experience to draw medication and treatment for patients throughout the area

Hanoi People`s Committee held a ceremony on September 1 to pilot opening more walking area around Hoan Kiem Lake on the occasion of the 71st National Day (September 2).

At present, most of districts and wards in the capital have completed fundamental preparations for teaching, learning, and training, with teachers ready to serve more than 1.7 million students at all levels.

​Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism annouced that from September 1-30, Independent Holliday celebration will be held from September 1-30 at the Culture and Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups (Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi) to mark the 71th anniversary of National Day (September 2).

On August 29, Hanoi Culture and Communications Department announced that folk music will be performed around Hanoi’s Sword Lake to make the Capital city’s nightlife more attractive to visitors.

According to the People’s Committee of Hoan Kiem District, Mid-Autumn Festival 2016 will take place from September 2 -15 (on the 2nd to 15th day of the 8th lunar month) in Old Quarter to serve people, especially children.