June 16, 2015 | 13:04 (GMT+7)
Golden Tourism Week to be held in Hue relic site
A “Golden Tourism Week” will take place in the Hue ancient imperial relic site, a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage, in the central Thua Thien-Hue province from June 15th-21st...
A “Golden Tourism Week” will take place in the Hue ancient imperial relic site, a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage, in the central Thua Thien-Hue province from June 15th-21st.
According to the Hue Relics Preservation Centre, visitors to the site during the week will enjoy preferential treatment, including free tickets to the site for students and free tickets to the Royal Palace-Minh Mang Tomb-Khai Dinh Tomb route.
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Royal night feast, one of the tourism products large attractive to visitors. Photo: Vietnam+ |
The center will also hold a number of special tourism and cultural events and launch new services to attract tourists, including art performances and exhibitions.
The center’s Director, Phan Thanh Hai, said that as of mid-June, the relic site had welcomed nearly 970,000 tourists this year, 504,000 of which were foreigners. Tourism revenue has reached VND 90.4 billion (USD 4.15 million), the highest recorded in the first five and a half months of a year.
The center will organize two other promotion weeks this year, from September 2nd-8th and from December 24th-30th.
Source: VNA