Starting today, January 2, two historical landmarks in Hanoi's Old Quarter will charge admission to raise funds for the preservation of the city's cultural heritage.

Hanoi kicked off the 2025 New Year holiday with an impressive tourism boom.

As the New Year and Lunar New Year approach, the streets of Hanoi are adorned with vibrant decorations, including flags, flowers, and festive slogans, to celebrate the arrival of 2025 and the country’s major holidays.

With live music performance, light dances and snow scene, these places in Hanoi will become the most crowded places for New Year welcoming.

Hanoi`s tourism sector witnessed a bountiful year with the number of foreign travelers reaching a whopping five million, prompting the capital to set an even more ambitious target for the year ahead.

About 13 million foreigners chose Vietnam as their holiday destination in 2017, which is considered a record of the tourism sector and marked a year-on-year rise of nearly 3 million in the number of foreign visitors for the first time.

The central city of Da Nang will hold diverse tourism activities to attract visitors for the New Year 2018 holiday.

The UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site of Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam is holding a programme themed “Welcome the 2018 New Year” from December 24 to January 2.

The central province of Khanh Hoa, hosted its 2 millionth international tourist of the year, who landed on a VietJet Air plane from Incheon, South Korea.

The US National Geographic Traveller magazine has revealed the list of the best destinations for winter trips, including Vietnam.

Hanoi has signed several cooperation programmes with international partners to promote the capital city’s images abroad.

According to Lonely Planet, a renowned travel publication, Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park has come in second in a list of the “Top experiences in Vietnam”.

The Insider has taken Vietnam`s mountain range Mu Cang Chai in its list of world`s beautiful mounts recently.

Vietnam has been named in the world’s Top 10 fastest-growing tourist destinations in 2017 of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

As a Vietnamese nationalist, Phan Chau Trinh together with his comrades sought to end France’s colonial occupation of Vietnam. However, few people know about his resting place.

Ho Chi Minh City’s officials have proposed opening more pedestrian streets to attract tourists.

Highwire walking, Flyboarding, and Zip-line - the adventure sports in Vietnam attracted a lot of travelers in 2017 looking to test themselves on games requiring courage, patience, and flexibility.

The Vietnamese tourism sector has identified India as a priority market, with a range of activities being deployed to exploit the South Asian market, including market research, product promotion, exhibitions, and conferences on tourism - aviation and tourism - filmmaking cooperation.

Eco-tourism sites set among stunning landscapes are ideal places for travellers to rest their bodies and minds to make sure they start the New Year feeling fresh and reinvigorated.

Hanoi’s Department of Tourism estimated that by the end of 2017, the capital city will have welcomed more than 23.8 million visitors for earnings of roughly 71 trillion VND (3.1 billion USD), an increase of 15 percent from the same period last year.

On December 7, in Hanoi, Hanoi Tourism Association (Hanta) has held the 5th congress for the period 2017 - 2022.

Ho Chi Minh City`s Nguyen Hue Street will be decorated with flowers for the week around Tet holiday.

Accordingly, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently signed a decision recognising the resort town of Sa Pa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai as a national tourism site.