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The Hanoi Times spoke with Truong Minh Tien, Chairman of the UNESCO Hanoi Association, on ways to expand and link the city’s heritage tours. What do you think about the link between Hanoi’s legacy and tourism, given that the city has developed numerous heritage routes to draw tourists?  A night tour at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long. Photo: Lai Tan/ The Hanoi Times Cultural heritage   is one of Hanoi’s strengths. The capital’s tourism and culture departments have worked together for many years to develop programs to utilize heritage values for tourism purposes. The Center for Scientific and Cultural Activities Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) – Quoc Tu Giam (Vietnam’s first university) has cooperated with the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts to launch a tourism product with the theme “Tradition of Respect for Studiousness”. The journey to experience the 90-minute night tour at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long helps visitors visualize a part of ...

Vietnam will have its first VR light park in the beach city of Danang, diversifying entertainment options for tourists to the coastal city.  It’s a project cooperated by Ben Thanh – Non Nuoc Tourism Joint Stock Company and two South Korean partners.  Local tourists attended a lighting festival in the southern city of Cantho in 2019. Photo: baocaotho.com.vn Under the signing ceremony held on May 23, the park will be built in the 60,000m2 pine forest of a tourist area in Ngu Hanh Son District using VR technology from South Korea’s Newton Technologies Co., Ltd. It’s expected to provide a modern digital tourism product with light shows combining reality and virtuality with lighting, animation, and video.  According to Nguyen Xuan Binh, Deputy Director of the Danang Tourism Department, this new tourism product is promising and will help Danang attract more visitors. “The project will make a significant contribution to creating more attractive touri...

In the middle of the courtyard of Dong Co Temple, Tay Ho District, Hanoi, an incense burner was lit. People gathered in a solemn atmosphere and recited the oath: “The unfilial children, the disloyal servants, God will destroy them.” That’s the main rite of the Loyalty Oath Festival of Dong Co Temple, which has been maintained in the capital for nearly 1,000 years. Thanks to its historical and cultural values, the festival has been recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage. The festival is the only one that provides a place for mandarins of the past and Party members of the present to take an oath of loyalty to the country. It’s also an opportunity for the people to show gratitude to their ancestors and pray for national peace and prosperity. Dong Co Temple is located on Thuy Khue Street, about 300 meters from the southwestern shore of the West Lake. Legend has it that in 1020, Crown Prince Phat Ma (later enthroned as King Ly Thai Tong) led a troop south to fight the in...

New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Deputy Secretary, Vangelis Vitalis, met with his Vietnamese counterpart, Ministry of Industry and Trade Deputy Minister, Phan Thi Thang, to traverse the broad range of issues that connect the two countries, from free trade agreements to regional and multilateral cooperation. Source: New Zealand’s embassy in Hanoi There is great potential for Vietnam and New Zealand to further strengthen cooperation in terms of trade, industry and investment, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Phan Thi Thang at the 8th meeting of the Vietnam-New Zealand Joint Trade and Economic Commission (JTEC) held in Hanoi on May 23, VNA reported Tuesday . Co-chaired by Thang and Deputy Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand Vangelis Vitalis, the meeting focused on reviewing bilateral cooperation in trade, investment, agriculture, education and training, tourism, aviation, and labor. The two sides applauded the efforts and close...

Visitors join Mua sap (a traditional dance of Vietnam). Source: Vietnamese Association in the RoK’s Gwangju-jeonnam region The 2023 Vietnam Day was held in Gwangju city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on May 21, aiming to popularise the traditional and unique culture of Vietnam to international friends as well as to strengthen cultural exchange between the two countries, VNA reported Tuesday . Nguyen Viet Phong, Chairman of the Vietnamese Association in the RoK’s Gwangju-jeonnam region, said the event offers a good opportunity for the Vietnamese community to meet and enhance solidarity and mutual support. Kang Gi-jung, Mayor of Gwangju city, expressed his hope that through the 2023 Vietnam Day, the people-to-people diplomacy and locality-to-locality exchange between the RoK and Vietnam will be further expanded. Delegates pose for a group photo. Source: Vietnamese Association in the RoK’s Gwangju-jeonnam region Yu Min-bong, General Secretary of the Governors ...