Almost 6,000 objects will be displayed at the spring flower festival 2012 held from January 18th - 28th, 2012 in District 1 and District 3 in Ho Chi Minh City.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Vietnam in the first eleven months of 2011 reached more than 5.3 million, a year-on-year increase of 15.9 percent, reported the Vietnam General Statistics Office.
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) welcomed nearly 3.1 million tourist arrivals in the first eleven months this year, up 8.4 percent from the same period last year, reported the city department of culture, sport and tourism.
Celebrations of the seventh Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day officially started at a ceremony in Hano on the theme of “Cultural Heritage and Tourism Week of the Northern Central Region”.
A Vietnam Week is taking place in Vladivostok city, Russia, from November 18-25 as part of activities to mark the 40th establishment of the Primorie chapter of the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association (1971-2011).
The Vietnamese language, culture and cuisines were introduced at the 37 th International Language Festival that took place in Tours city of France on Nov. 19-20.
