Tourism
Visitors to Mooc Spring in Da Nang (Photo: VNA)
In the coming time, the local tourism industry will launch implementation of many plans in a bid to attract tourists to Binh Duong. The plans include launchings of the Project of “Developing Binh Duong’s typical tourism products till 2015 and orientation till 2020”, the provincial People’s Committee’s Plan No.2114/KH-UBND dated July 21, 2013 on building and upgrading public restrooms at tourism sites and populous areas in the province.
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Floating down Hoang Long River
Tourism associations from Hanoi, Thua Thien-Hue and Ho Chi Minh City representing the three regions of Vietnam signed a cooperation programme on April 5 to stimulate national tourism development.
The northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh welcomed 650,000 visitors in the first quarter of the year including 48,000 foreign arrivals, up 37.4% from last year’s same quarter, said provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Director Bui Ngoc Lam.
The Hue relics complex in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue welcomed more than 500,645 visitors in the first quarter of 2014, including 320,740 foreigners.
The annual Khau Vai love market, a unique ethnic festival dedicated to ex-couples, will be held from April 24 – 26 in Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district, Ha Giang province.
The 10th annual HCM City Tourism Festival officially got underway on March 27 at Park 23/9 in district 1 featuring many tourism related venues and activities.
The northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien will expand the model of building cultural hamlets to develop its tourism following a successful pilot in a Thai ethnic hamlet, according to radio The Voice of Vietnam (VOV).
Vietnam welcomed more than 2.3 million foreign arrivals in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 29.3% from a year ago, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Danang City has been listed among the top ten most outstanding new emerging destinations in Asia in 2014, according to Agoda.com, the renowned hotel booking website of Asia.