Pho Hanoi, now a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, will be the centerpiece of a year-end festival celebrating its timeless inheritance and cultural significance.

The newly established food street in the inner district of Ba Dinh brings fascinating cultural, tourist, and culinary experiences to travelers at home and abroad.

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.

Hanoi made the top 10 on the world’s fastest travel destinations list with a 16.4% annual growth rate in the 2009 - 2016 period, according to the MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index 2017.

Domestic and foreign tourists to Ho Chi Minh City will have exciting experience discovering the beauty of local scenery as state-owned tour operator Saigontourist launched seven new waterway tours.

Chinese tourists have continued to take the lead in the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam, up more than 47% to more than 2.9 million arrivals, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

A Vietnamese stall is offering a warm welcome to visitors at the Top Resa international tourism fair, which runs in Paris from September 26 to 29.

The 10th version of the Hue Festival in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue will highlight the five local UNESCO-recognised World Heritage items, according to the festival’s organising board.

To have an “unique” picture on the cliffs in Phu Quy, Ba Den Mountain or Pha Luong, visitor must be both courage and careful.

A large-scale festival to promote vegetarian culture, express gratitude to parents and mark Mother’s Day will be held in Hanoi on September 30.

Developing sustainable tourism in combination with preserving and promoting national cultural values, and protecting landscapes and the environment is among targets set in Vietnam’s master plan on tourism development by 2020, with the vision to 2030.

Trang An landscape complex has met the criteria of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisations (UNESCO) on outstanding universal values of World Heritage, for this reason, the complex has been officially recognized as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

The annual charity fair was attended by N.Chimguundari, Foreign Policy Advisor to the Acting Prime Minister, E.Sarantogos, Director of Asia-Pacific Department of Foreign Ministry and Yuensub Murray, the President of International Women’s Society of Mongolia.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) on September 25 held a roadshow in Jakarta, aiming to introduce Vietnamese tourism products to Indonesians and promote the image of Vietnam to attract more Indonesian visitors.

According to a report of Hanoi Department of Tourism, in the first 9 months of 2017, tourist arrivals reached an estimated 17,971,963, a year-on-year rise of 9%. Meanwhile, foreign tourists to Hanoi reached an estimated 3,536,143, a year-on-year rise of 23.5%.

Vietnam welcomed more than 9.4 million international tourists in the first nine months of 2017, a year-on-year rise of 28.4 percent.

On September 30, a large-scale festival to promote vegetarian culture, express gratitude to parents and mark Mother’s Day will be held in Hanoi.

The new tourist products of Hanoi free walking tour with the duration from 2 – 3 hours will be offered for foreign and local tourists to Hanoi in October.

In the past two years, homestay has developed rapidly, adding to the appeal of capital tourism.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on September 22 announced the theme and activities of the National Tourism Year 2018, which will be hosted by the north-eastern province of Quang Ninh.

On the evening of September 29, the 2017 Mid-autumn festival will be held in front of Dong Xuan Market gate in Hanoi’s Old Quarter with a joyful drum performance and lion dance.

On October 2017, Vietravel Hanoi Company will be held Hanoi Free Walking Tour, which helps tourists visiting the capital city to explore local life free of charge.

“Hoi An’s signature noodle dish is the history of the city in a bowl. The cuisines of foreign traders have been added ingredients over time but it is still quintessentially Vietnamese”, the Guardian wrote.