A seminar was held in Hanoi on November 29-30 to raise public awareness of Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) cooperative programmes
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged central Khanh Hoa province to make the most of its potential for a tourism, services and maritime-based econ-omy in a sustainable manner.
While Cu Lao Cham (Cham Isle) in Quang Nam province receives thousands of tourists a day, Cu Lao Xanh (Green Isle) in Binh Dinh, also a wonderful natural landscape still cannot attract tourists. Local people, therefore, still have to live in poverty, though they have a gold mine.
UNESCO, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have just organized a workshop on sustainable tourism in Hoi An with an aim to offer higher benefits to local craft villages.
Located 50 km from Ha Long city, the island district of Van Don, consisting of more than 600 islands and islets, owns a cultural heritage treasure - traces of prehistoric man – as well as regional cultural heritage, and national historical and cultural relics. Among them is Van Don commercial port – one of the starting points of the Silk Road at sea.
A project to establish mangrove forests that will alleviate climate change and preserve coastal biodiversity in central Thua Thien – Hue province was launched at a seminar in Hue city on November 27
The first time Ma A Pho, a Mong resident of Lao Cai Province's Sa Pa Township traveled to Ha Noi in 2005, he left feeling ashamed and upset due to the barrage of "curious looks" he received
Thousands of spectators on either banks of the Hau River, a tributary of the Mekong, cheered wildly as some 50 teams from several Mekong Delta provinces vied with each other to win the Ngo Boat Race held in Soc Trang Province yesterday
"People in the Central Highlands now observe buffalo sacrifice, grave-hut removal, praying for health. Even these ceremonies may fade away if we do not preserve them," warned To Ngoc Thanh, Association of Vietnamese Folklorists chairman, at the fourth international conference on Vietnamese studies.
The central province of Quang Nam has great potential in history, tradition, culture and environment, as well as two UNESCO-recognised world heritage sites and the world biosphere reserve of the Cham Islands, to promote sustainable tourism, said Lucy Russell, the editorial manager of QUO, a travel brand and communications agency, at a two-day workshop here on Thursday (Novermber 22).