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.

The traditional Chol Chnam Thmay Festival of the Khmer people is being celebrated at the Khmer pagoda complex in the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups in Dong Mo, Hanoi starting on April 14.

The fourth annual week-long coconut festival wrapped up in the southern province of Ben Tre on April 13, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors and raking in nearly 20 billion VND (950,000 USD) in revenue.

The local uniqueness should be considered as one of keys to sustainable tourism development, experts said at a conference on sustainable tourism held in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on April 11.

The opening ceremony of the 2015 Khmer ethnic culture, sports and tourism festival was held in Tinh Bien district, An Giang province on April 12. The festival will be run until April 14.

The Vietnam Airlines will deploy 545 additional flights on domestic flights and international from April 25 to May 4.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism held the second press conference of the “Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism” quiz on April 10 in Hanoi. According to the Organizing Board, about 32,115 students from 1,726 high schools nationwide have participated the first round of the competition.

Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa province has launched its first waterway tours on the Ma river last week.

Low-fare carrier Jetstar Pacific has announced on April 8 plans to open new route between Hanoi and Da Lat, aiming to cater to the increasing demand for travel and trade.

The 2015 Japan Festival to be held in Ho Chi Minh City is a cultural activity that strengthens the traditional bilateral ties between the two countries, said a city senior official.

Promoting domestic tourism has been defined a key contributor to the sector’s growth this year, heard a recent conference held by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

The 2015 Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival with many new and attractive activities will be held at the Thang Long royal citadel in Hanoi on April 11-12.

Visiting the Dong Son village in the central province of Thanh Hoa provides visitors great insight into the characteristic architecture of old rural houses in Vietnam’s North Central Coast region.

Maintenance work at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City will start on April 10 as scheduled, and end before June 30, despite concerns that maintenance work will affect holiday-season passengers.

A seminar co-hosted by the Vietnam Administration of Tourism in cooperation with the EU-funded Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Program (ESRT) was held in Hanoi on April 4.

The opening ceremony of the 2015 Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM-Hanoi 2015) was held in Hanoi on the evening of April 2. Vice President of State Nguyen Thi Doan, Vice Chairman of Hanoi People`s Committee Le Hong Son attended the event.

Le Loi flower street in the central province of Thanh Hoa, themed “Connecting World Heritages”, was opened by the provincial People’s Committee and the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Association on April 1.

Culture, sports and tourism sectors and travel firms in the central provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Nam launched a wide range of activities to promote their development of maritime-based tourism on March 30-31.

The opening ceremony of direct flights from Kenya to Vietnam was held at Noi Bai International Airport on March 31. This is the first African airline to connect to Vietnam.

La Stampa, Italy’s third most popular newspaper, called the ancient town of Hoi An in central coastal Quang Nam province an ideal Asian destination in 2015 in an article titled “Hoi An, a multinational Vietnam”.

Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific on March 30 officially opened a direct air route between Hanoi and the Thai capital of Bangkok.