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.

With the aim to attract more foreign tourists to Vietnam and HCM City in particular, the 12th International Travel Expo HCM City 2016 (ITE-HCMC) will be organised in the southern metropolis from September 8-10.

Nestled in the Red River Delta, Thai Binh province is known for vast rice fields made fertile by the alluvium of the Red River and two other rivers, the Hoa and the Luoc.

Vietnam welcomed 846,311 international tourists in July this year, a growth of 41.2% year on year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

The 6th Quang Nam Heritage Festival is set to take place on June 9-14 next year. The project has been approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Many new tourist destinations in the northern mountainous Province of Lao Cai have become more attractive to local and foreign tourists thanks to their picturesque landscapes and unique cultural features.

With the aims to develop Hanoi`s tourism industry into one of the key economic sector, the municipal Party Secretary Hoang Trung Hai has issued a resolution on tourism development for 2016 - 2020 period.

​Vietnam’s The Nam Hai Hoi An resort was voted in the prestigious Travel & Leisure’s list of “the 100 best hotels in the world”.

Ao Dai Festival 2016 is scheduled to take place at Hanoi`s Thang Long - Hanoi Preservation Centre from October 14-16, according to the recently- issued plan of the municipal People’s Committee.

The central city of Da Nang, with long beautiful beaches and developed tourism infrastructure, is really a wonderful tourist city, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said.

KTĐT - The municipal Department of Tourism held the meeting reviewing the results in the first 6 months of this year and tasks in the remaining 6 months on July 19.

Con Dao Island, an archipelago in the southern province of Ba Ria –Vung Tau, has been chosen in the top 10 best places to travel in Asia list of 2016 by Lonely Planet Magazine, the world’s largest travel guide book publisher.

General Director of the Vietnam National Tourism Administration (VNAT) Nguyen Van Tuan said at a meeting in Hanoi on July 9 that his agency will try its best efforts to create a breakthrough development and fix shortcomings towards a healthy tourism environment.

The tourism sector in Phu Yen has begun to flourish in recent time, gradually becoming an economic pillar of the south central coastal province.

The travel website Rough Guides has revealed the world`s top 10 best backpacking destinations. Accordingly, Vietnam was ranked at 9th place.

The Ba Mun island is located in the core of Bai Tu Long Bay and is the only schist island having primeval forests. The Ba Mun island, the biggest wild life conservation site in Vietnam’s northeastern region, covers an area of about 1,800 ha.

As revealed by the organising board at the meeting in Hanoi on July 11, the theme of the National Tourism Year 2017 will be “Northwest Colours”.

The UK’s Daily Mail has revealed the top 15 most breathtaking sunsets on earth, of which Vietnam’s salt fields was named the 13th.

The northern province of Quang Ninh on July 7 launched a tourism programme to promote Ha Long Bay as a clean, beautiful and friendly destination in response to the Vietnam Tourism Day (July 9, 1960).

KTĐT - General Director of the Vietnam National Tourism Administration Nguyen Van Tuan highlighted both the good performances and limitations of the tourism industry in the first six months of this year in a conference in Hanoi on July 8.

A ceremony to present awards of the 7th national tourism photo contest themed "Vietnam Today" was held in Hanoi on July 5.