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Hue Festival 2018 is coming very near, tourism businesses have been deploying and promoting many tours associated with the Festival to serve visitors.

The over-500-year-old Phuoc Tich village has been chosen be the venue for the fest “Huong xua lang co” (The ancient village scents) within Hue Festival.

With its poetic beauty given by nature, the famous peninsulated tract at Lap An lagoon in Lang Co town, Phu Loc district has attracted such a great number of tourists. Many tourists compare this place to a beautiful elysium.

Along with the other two programs “Huong Xua Lang Co” (Old Flavors of Ancient Village), the “Cho Que Ngay Hoi" (Countryside Market in the Festival) gives a vivid picture of the traditional rural cultural life at Hue Festival 2018.

“In search of the lost Royal Palace of Hue” is the film project using 4D technology invested by the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre in collaboration with IV COM Co., Ltd. (the subsidiary in Vietnam of the Korea Underdog Studio) with the total expense of VND 50 billion. The program will officially open on the morning of April 27, 2018 to the East of Thai Hoa palace, Hue Citadel

Perhaps, compared to other cities in South Vietnam I have been to, Go Cong with its rivers and sea bears the most resemblance to Hue. Since My Loi Bridge joined the two banks of the Vam Co River, travelling from Ho Chi Minh City to Go Cong has even been faster than to My Tho City.

Holding two major cuisine-related activities at Hue Festival 2018 at the same time, what the organizers expect is to step by step turn Hue into the culinary capital of Vietnam.

Acecook Vietnam Joint Stock Company and Phu Dat Gia Co., Ltd. have become the Gold Sponsors for Hue Festival 2018 after the signing ceremony on the afternoon of April 4. Accordingly, the two enterprises will fuel up to VND 3.3 trillion to the most highlighted biennial cultural event of the country in 2018.

The Tourism Department has just updated the figure on the number of tourists coming to Hue, the number of staying tourists and the revenue in the first quarter of 2018.

According to the statistics provided by the World Tourism Organization UNWTO, a tourist on average spends one-third of their expenses on gastronomy. This is a ground on which our national tourism policy makers are formulating a strategy to turn Vietnam into “the world kitchen." Hue has the opportunity to become the kitchen of Vietnam as among approximately 3,000 dishes nationwide, there are over 1,700 dishes cooked in a Hue style.

At the Tourism Awards Ceremony 2017, within The Vietnam International Travel Mart (Hanoi VITM) 2018, held on March 30 in Hanoi, outstanding individuals in the field of tourism were honored for the first time, besides the businesses.

On the night of March 26, Hotel Saigon Morin celebrated the 117th anniversary of establishment (1901 – 2018)

Phu Vang District is making active preparations to welcome the 2018 sea-lagoon tourism season with the desire to effectively exploit the potential.

The festival 2018 will be strikingly different from the Hue Festival 2016: longer in time, larger in scale and better in quality. Subsequent to the opening day, the festival will take place every afternoon until the closing day, not on alternate days as before.

Together with five other cities in Viet Nam (Ha Noi, Hoi An, Da Nang, Nha Trang and Ho Chi Minh city), Hue is voted as one of the eight attractive destinations in South East Asia by TripAdvisor – the world famous travel website.