The unique practice of worshipping Hung kings in Vietnam will be one of 35 pieces of intangible heritage submitted for recognition at the seventh session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which will be held in Paris on December 3-7.
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has completed a dossier on the traditional Then singing of the Tay ethnic minority, and will submit it to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for recognition as a national intangible cultural heritage.
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.
The Ok Om Bok Festival, a jubilant occasion with a range of traditional rituals and one of the three typical festivals of the Khmer people took place in southern Tra Vinh province on November 28.
The number of the Republic of Korean tourists to Vietnam in November showed the highest year-on-year increase of 31.5 percent, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Vietnam greeted more than 6.03 million foreigners from the start of the year to the end of November 2012, a year-on-year increase of 11.4 percent, according to the country's General Statistics Office.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has hosted almost 2.4 million tourists so far in 2012, up 25 percent against the same period last year.
An art contest, World Heritage in Your Hands, has been launched nationwide to celebrate National Day for Heritage and 40 years of the World Heritage convention.
The 2012 National Boat Race commenced on the Long Binh River in southern Tra Vinh Province on November 26.
A photo exhibition featuring Vietnam's boundary and the country's sovereignty over seas and islands opened in the central province of Thua Thien Hue on November 25.
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.
Many travel agencies in Europe are promoting Vietnam as a destination for tourists rather than a stopover of tours to Southeast Asian countries, said local tour operators after a recent road show abroad.