VNAT to hire design firm for marketing strategy

VNAT to hire design firm for marketing strategy

Australian-invested Cowan Design Company, which has won a contest to design a logo and slogan for Vietnam’s tourism, will likely be chosen to map out a strategy to build the tourism brand name and promote the country’s tourism image, a tourism official said. Nguyen Van Tuan, Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism [...]

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Hanoi Museum exhibits 3000 objects

Hanoi Museum exhibits 3000 objects

On January 29, the Hanoi Museum displayed nearly 3000 items which have been presented to it by organisations and individuals. The Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee and the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism launched a campaign for donations gifts of documents and objects to the Hanoi Museum. The campaign attracted a great number of both [...]

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Overseas Vietnamese invited to celebrate Hanoi’s birthday

Overseas Vietnamese invited to celebrate Hanoi’s birthday

Overseas Vietnamese in Vientiane and Paris were called online to join the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Ha Noi yesterday. Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Nguyen Thanh Son and Overseas Vietnamese Commission chairman reminded the participants the anniversary was just one of 63 anniversaries the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural organisation, UNESCO, had chosen [...]

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Hanoi’s tourist festival scheduled for October

Hanoi’s tourist festival scheduled for October

The Thang Long-Hanoi International Tourism Festival will run from October 2-5 at the Bao Son Paradise Theme Park. At a meeting with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on June 10, Vice Chair of the Hanoi People’s Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang said that the event is not only part of National Tourism Year [...]

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The 1000th spring of Thang Long-Hanoi

The 1000th spring of Thang Long-Hanoi

A large spring festival has taken place around the Hoan Kiem Lake in the capital city of Hanoi on Feb. 20, raising the curtain for a series of festivities to welcome the 1,000 anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. Photo: Hoang Ha. Girls in traditional “Ao Dai”

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Tourism events in 2010

Tourism events in 2010

Many big culture and tourism events will be organized in provinces and cities throughout Vietnam in 2010 National Tourism Year 2010: named “Thang Long – Hanoi: 1000-year convergence”, the event will be associated with activities of 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi. Dalat Flower Festival: take place in Dalat City from January 1 to [...]

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Art festivals to mark 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi

Art festivals to mark 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi

Two national art festivals will be organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the Vietnam Communist Party and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi. The festival joined by workers and officials holders will take place at the Hanoi Friendship Palace on January 15-19, 2010 [...]

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Statues to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.

Statues to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has fulfilled a field research for the erection of statues of the late president Ho Chi Minh and Ton Duc Thang in Thong Nhat Park. The statues are a present from Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to Hanoi on the occasion of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi. [...]

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Flower festival 2010 to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi

Flower festival 2010 to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi

The Capital City Flower Festival will straddle the New Year, running from December 12, 2009 to January 3, 2010 at Hoan Kiem Lake area. This festival, which is being held for the second time, will be Vietnam’s first major cultural and tourism activity in 2010. Nguyen Thi Hoa, Deputy Chairwoman of the Flower Festival’s Organisating [...]

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