During the New Year holiday, tourist arrivals in Hanoi up 11 percent.
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Major tourist attractions include Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam, Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, Hoan Kiem walking street, and Huong Son relic site. Meanwhile in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue, more than 30,000 visited Hue heritage sites, including over 24,000 foreigners, said Director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre Phan Thanh Hai.
2018 is ushered in with festivals of music and light, bright fireworks displays, and people’s optimism for the development of the nation. Hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered at August Revolution Square in Hanoi on the night of December 31 as they took part in a ‘Countdown Party’ to welcome New Year 2018. Foreign tourists relish the party atmosphere and exciting New Year celebrations in Vietnam.
On January 1, the US native Allicock Stephangary aboard the Vietnam Airlines flight from Hanoi to Hue was welcomed in Phu Bai international airport as the first visitor in the province in 2018. Last year, the centre welcomed over 3 million tourists, including more than 1.8 million foreigners, earning roughly 318 billion VND.
Nguyen Van Phuc, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Tourism, said the province strives to lure 4 to 4.2 million holidaymakers in 2018, up 10 to 12 percent, 40 to 45 percent of them will be foreigners. Tourism earnings will increase by around 15 percent to 4.2 to 4.3 trillion VND.
The province plans to hold a series of cultural, art and sports activities to attract visitors, expand new tourism markets via partnering with airlines and twinning localities, and offer famtrip and presstrip to foreign travelling and press agencies from major markets in Europe, South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, North America and Australia, he said.
