Wednesday, 17/04/2024 19:00 (GMT+7)
The Hanoi Tourism Festival 2024, themed “Thang Long - Hanoi, Charming Capital”, will take place from April 25 to 28, at Thong Nhat Park, Hai Ba Trung district, heard a press conference on April 16.
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| The festival introduces many craft tourism products of Hanoi. (Photo: hanoimoi.vn) |
The event is among activities to respond to the Visit Vietnam Year - Dien Bien 2024, towards the 70th anniversary of Capital Liberation Day.
According to the organizers, the festival will have an elaborate art program, demonstrating the strong vitality of the thousand-year-old capital, typically water puppetry, artistic dragon dancing, folk instrument performances, modern dance, and Ao dai performance. In addition, the festival also introduces the culinary space and craft villages of Hanoi with many specialties of the capital.
Head of the Tourism Promotion Office under the Hanoi Center for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Nguyen Huu Viet said Hanoi has just been honored by the international tourism site Tripadvisor as “World’s Leading Destination 2024” and “The world’s most attractive culinary destination 2024”. Therefore, the festival will promote many unique dishes such as: West Lake shrimp cakes, snail vermicelli, Thanh Tri rice rolls, Phung spring rolls, bun thang, bun cha and Phu Thuong sticky rice.
The highlight of this year’s event is the organizers’ designing many creative spaces for visitors to check-in, such as: Craft village space in Duong Lam Ancient Village, Thang Long Imperial Citadel Heritage space, and Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam. This year, the booths will be designed to resemble Hanoi’s Old Quarters.
According to the organizers, the festival has 150 booths with the participation of districts in Hanoi, provinces and cities across the country and businesses. At the festival, thousands of attractive stimulus products will be introduced by tourism and airline businesses.
The Hanoi Tourism Festival is expected to welcome 50,000 visitors./.
BTA