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.

Visitors to a weekend Thai festival at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology can mingle with artistic dance performers and learn about the country`s cuisine.

The central province of Thanh Hoa is actively completing its final preparations for the 2015 National Tourism Year themed “Connecting World Heritages”, which will commence in Thanh Hoa city on April 3.

KTĐT - According to the Hanoi Statistics Office, as of March 15, Huong Pagoda festival welcomed approximately 673,000 tourists, including 1,400 international visitors.

Tho Chu, an archipelago with eight islands, is a commune of Phu Quoc District, which is in turn an island off Kien Giang Province.

Vietnam’s holiday home market shows signs of recovery with the revival of delayed projects and investors ramping up investments in this segment.

A delegation of 20 Chinese travel agencies has visited the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa to survey tourism offerings and design tours for Chinese visitors.

Jetstar Pacific (JPA) will replace Vietnam Airlines and the Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) to operate flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Tuy Hoa city, southern central province of Phu Yen from March 30, 2015.

Japan welcomed 21,800 Vietnamese visitors during the first two months of 2015, an annual surge of 54.3 percent, revealed the Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO) on March 18.

HCM city has become the first national tourism body to launch a free directory for tourism and hospitality businesses of any size or location.

The 11th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2015, themed “Impression of the World’s Heritage in Vietnam”, will take place at 23/9 Park from March 26-29, as released at a press conference on March 12.

Under the mossy old gate of the Son Tay Ancient Citadel, embraced by huge roots of 100-year-old trees, a group of teenagers were chatting and laughing and trying to take photos of each other. Not far from them, two young boys were fishing by the tranquil moat around the citadel. Their joyful laughter broke the calm surrounding the site.

The central province of Thua Thien Hue is set to join two major international tourism fairs- annual Korea World Travel Fair (KOTFA) and JATA Tourism Expo-Japan.

The 2015 Ban Flower Festival kicked off in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 13.

The Mekong Delta City of Can Tho targets to expand services, improve facilities, and enhance service quality to boost tourism development in 2015.

Vietnam International Travel Market 2015 (VITM 2015) held in Hanoi from April 3-6, will attract to the participation of more than 700 international tourism businesses from 25 nations and territories.

The fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival opened on March 10, attracting hundreds of local and international businesses. The event was part of celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Buon Ma Thuot Victory.

A crowd of experts, researchers, scholars and managers working in tourism from Asia, America and Europe gathered at a recent event in Ho Chi Minh City to contribute their ideas on how to promote tourism globalisation and localisation.

The low-cost carrier Vietjet Air will offer 3,000 tickets starting at 0 VND on Hanoi- Seoul (the Republic of Korea) route from March 9 to 14, 2015, opening the airline’s daily promotional programme in the year.

Tourism makes Vietnamese and German people closer, Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh said addressing a ceremony promoting Vietnamese Tourism in Berlin on March 6.

Ho Chi Minh City will be featured in a CNNGo program, which will be broadcast on March 11, CNN said on March 4.