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The Ha Long Carnival and the 2020 Ha Long - Quang Ninh Tourism Week will take place on Vietnam’s National Day (September 2) if the COVID-19 is brought under control, announced the Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee.

Buildings in many big cities of Vietnam have been lit with messages to call on people to help in Covid-19 preventative measures.

Two tourism products in Vietnam have triumphed at the ASEAN Tourism Awards Japan 2019 – the annual ceremony organised by the ASEAN-Japan Centre.

Many manhole covers on some Hanoi’s streets have been turned into colourful paintings as part of a project to help raise awareness about environmental protection and urban beauty.

Google Doodle today, March 24, features the Vietnamese delicacy Banh Mi to mark the 9th year since the street-food sandwich entered the Oxford English Dictionary.

Vietnam has been ranked 83rd out of 156 countries in the latest World Happiness Report 2020 released recently by the United Nations, up 11 places compared to last year.

The US Cable News Network (CNN) published an article on March 17, explaining why the world is waking up to Vietnamese coffee.

The tourist town of Sapa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai will stop receiving visitors on March 18-31 in order to help prevent Covid-19.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has agreed with the municipal Department of Planning and Investment’s proposal to pilot an electric bike sharing system in Hoan Kiem district.

With its abundance of natural beauty and great efforts made by local authorities, Kon Plong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum is establishing itself as an attractive destination, keeping on the right track to develop sustainable tourism.

The UNESCO World Heritage of Trang An Landscape Complex in the northern province of Ninh Binh will stop welcoming visitors for two weeks starting from March 13 in an effort to prevent Covid-19.

The northern province of Bac Ninh has completed a dossier seeking UNESCO’s inclusion of the making of Dong Ho folk paintings in the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.

The Hoi An Centre for Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation will carry out seven solutions in the 2020-25 period in a bid to conserve and sustain values of Hoi An ancient town, said Director of the centre Pham Phu Ngoc.

Officials from the Vietnam Tourism Association (VITA), tourism associations of Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Gia Lai and Dak Lak, and the Binh Dinh Department of Tourism have met to discuss measures to stimulate tourism after the COVID-19 outbreak is contained.

Established during the 2000s, an area in HCM City known as Little Tokyo or Little Japan represents a distinct cultural enclave in the city centre.

Phu Yen hasn't had any confirmed cases of the Covid-19 outbreak and has become a popular destination, especially among domestic tourists.

Binh Thuan Province launched a tourism promotion programme entitled ‘Oh Wow! Mui Ne Beach” on March 3 to lure more visitors to the southern central coastal province.

People in the central province of Quang Ngai's Ly Son Island are currently busy harvesting garlic.

Vietnam’s immigration laws will undergo a radical shake-up this summer in an effort to widen the doors for tourists while protecting the country from foreign criminals and illegal workers.