More than 4.3 million foreign tourists visit Vietnam

Vietnam greeted nearly 525,300 foreign visitors in August 2012, bringing the figure for the first eight months of the year to more than 4.38 million, a year-on-year increase of 9.4 percent, reported the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.
Over the past eight months, the number of tourists coming Vietnam by sea reached more than 46,600, recording the largest growth with a year-on-year rise of 74.7 percent. The number of foreign tourists arriving by air and road were more than 3.64 million (up 9.2 percent) and 653,500 (up 7.6 percent), respectively.
Numerous Asian markets witnessed rises in the number of tourists to Vietnam, such as the RoK, up 35 percent, Malaysia (23 percent), Japan (19 percent) and Thailand (19 percent).
With these results, the tourism sector target of welcoming 6.5 million foreign tourists in 2012 is 67.5 percent fulfilled. The number of tourists to Vietnam is expected to grow in the rest of the year, thanks to the major holidays of the National Independence Day on September 2, Christmas Day and Western New Year./.
 
Source: CPV

TITLE “100 SUSTAINABLE VIETNAMESE BRANDS” FOR VIETNAMTOURISM-HANOI

On Sunday 12th August, 2012 a ceremony to honor the enterprises which receive the title “100 SUSTAINABLE VIETNAMESE BRANDS 2012” is organized at Hanoi Opera House. Mr. Luu Nhan Vinh – the General Director of Vietnamtourism-Hanoi JSC, attends the ceremony to receive the cup of “100 SUSTAINABLE VIETNAMESE BRANDS” on behalf of the company. This program is implemented in the cooperation between Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Association (VUSTA) with related departments. This is the award to encourage Vietnamese enterprises to apply achievements of technology and science in production and honor those which make great effort in building sustainably developing brands. In order to receive this honorable title, the enterprises must meet many criteria such as being the brand whose 5-10 year development, earning high revenue, having large market, being aware of by the public, being awarded such titles: Vietnamese brands, Vietnamese quality, Vietnamese Star, Vietnamese high-quality product; being excellent brand, applying international standardized science and technology to improve local economy…..With over 50 year development, always being one of the leading tour operators in Vietnam, Vietnamtourism-Hanoi which keeps attempting to serve clients and contribute to national economy and brand is worthy of this honorable award.

International festival of Vietnamese traditional martial arts 2012

From 1-3 August 2012, the forth international festival of Vietnamese traditional martial arts 2012 will be held in Quy Nhon City (Binh Dinh Province) by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in collaboration with People’s Committee of Binh Dinh Province.
This event aims to preserve and promote unique values of Vietnamese martial arts and create opportunities for domestic and international martial arts delegations to meet and exchange experience.
The festival is expected to attract a large number of martial arts master, instructors, athletes from 40 domestic delegations and 50 international delegations. Performance contents include: performing with bare hands and weapons; competing each other by bare hand, bare hands with weapons, and weapons with weapons.
In the framework of festival, many  other unique activities will be also held such as: hat tuong (classical opera), Binh Dinh folk bai choi festival; Miss Marital Arts contest; Vietnamese traditional martial arts street festival; workshop with the theme "Enhancing Vietnamese martial arts" and establishment of the International Committee of Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts Federation; photo exhibition of Vietnamese traditional martial arts; Binh Dinh culinary program; tours to traditional martial arts villages; Han Mac Tu – Xuan Dieu’s poetry night…
Especially, during the festival, Organization Board will set up a press center to facilitate for journalists in advertising the event.
Along with the preparation for the forth international festival of Vietnamese traditional martial arts, Binh Dinh Province are also focusing on promoting some specific local festivals (Dong Da victory festival, Go market festival, bai choi festival…) to create new tourism products, attract more tourists to Binh Dinh. In 2011, Binh Dinh welcomed nearly 1.2 million tourist arrivals, up 21% over 2010, of which international tourists was more than 94 thousand arrivals, total tourism revenues reached nearly VND 363 billion. For in the first quarter of 2012 only, total tourists to Binh Dinh was estimated at nearly 420 thousand arrivals, up 29% over the same period of 2011.
Source   :
   (TITC)