The five-day event is also designed to introduce new tourism products through 71 booths in order to attract more domestic and international tourists to the central city.
Vice Chairman of the Hue People’s Committee Truong Dinh Hanh highlighted the event as a contribution to the process of compiling a dossier seeking the inclusion of Hue cuisine in the national intangible cultural heritage as well as UNESCO’s recognition as world cultural heritage.
It is also viewed as an activity to position Hue among the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of culinary creativity by 2025, he added.
Through the event, food lovers have a chance to savor the fine taste of traditional Hue dishes and explore the quintessence of dishes of three regions across the nation.
Residents and tourists are able to enjoy skillful cooking demonstrations put on by Master Chefs and Vietnamese culinary artists at a culinary space set up for the festival.
Over 2.5 million go on pilgrimage to ancestral land
Some 2.5 million people flocked to the northern midland province of Phu Tho to celebrate the annual Hung Kings Temple Festival as of April 23 (the eight day of the third lunar month), said the organising board.
Ho Chi Minh City launches programme on stimulating tourism
NDO – The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism launched a programme on stimulating tourism in December and 2019, promising to bring fresh experiences for visitors travelling to the city.
Mysterious Cham Towers in Binh Dinh
Despite the impacts of time, the mysterious Cham towers that are one thousand years old have remained in the windy and sunny land of Binh Dinh in the Central region as vivid evidence of the flourishing period of the ancient Champa Kingdom in the 10th-15th centuries.
A mass performance of a Xoe folk dance is expected to set a Guinness world record
Under the framework of Muong Lo Cultural and Tourism Festival 2019, 5,000 people will join in a mass performance of a Xoe folk dance, in Yen Bai Province on September 20. NhandanOnline reports.
Ninh Binh expects to welcome 7.8 million tourists in 2020
Ninh Binh province, which is hosting the 2020 National Tourism Year, strives to welcome about 7.8 million tourists in the year, including approximately one million foreigners.
