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The Prime Minister has signed a decision recognizing the hill town of Sapa in the northern province of Lao Cai as a national tourism site.

Ho Chi Minh City's Nguyen Hue Street will be decorated with flowers for the week around Lunar New Year.

Tourists often flock to Ha Giang from October to December in order to see the fields of buckwheat flowers that has become the province's signature.

The central coastal city of Quy Nhon has been named among the top 10 winter sun destinations for 2018, according to the UK newspaper The Guardian.

The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi will be reopened for visitors to pay tribute to the late President on December 5 after more than three months of repair.

Mastercard's Global Destinations Cities Index ranked Bangkok the world’s most-visited city, with 19.41-million visitors last year, followed by London, Paris, Dubai, Singapore, and New York.

The Lam Dong tea and silk product week will be featured at the Da Lat Flower Festival 2017, which is scheduled to take place on December 23-27.

Vietnam welcomed more than 11.6 million international tourists in 2017, not yet counting December, a year-on-year rise of 27.8%, according to Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowers of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, and the unique cultural values of the province’s local ethnic people is taking place in Dong Van District.

Finland has just donated 100 trees to Hanoi on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Finland National day.

An Australian fam-trip delegation is surveying Vietnam’s tourism to sound out business prospects and work with potential local partners over measures to promote travel between the two nations.

UK daily newspaper The Telegraph has voted Vietnam’s terraced rice fields in sixth position on its Top 25 most surreal landscapes in the world.

An Ao dai (long dress) collection designed by Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han was featured at a fashion show at the Vietnam Sea and Islands – Endless Beauty event at Paris-based UNESCO Headquarters.

Visitors to central Quang Binh Province will get a chance to visit three caves that were recently discovered in the territory of local Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

The authorities of Ha Long City have made plans to spend nearly USD74.83m to preserve and promote the culture of fishing communities.

RT - Russia TV network has hailed the imposing beauty of Son Doong cave in Vietnam’s central Quang Binh.

Farmers in Nhat Tan Ward, Hanoi, are busy with harvesting their daisies, with the promise of lucrative returns.

Winners of the Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2017 were announced at the award ceremony of the contest, held by Vietnam Heritage Magazine, in Ho Chi Minh City on November 21.

Authorities in Hoan Kiem District have prepared a draft decree on allowing businesses in the Old Quarter, around Hoàn Kiếm Lake and some surrounding areas to stay open until 2am.