Hanoi hosts festival to promote tourism and culinary culture
NDO – A festival to stimulate tourism and introduce culinary culture opened in Hanoi on April 16.
HCMC – The capital city of Hanoi will hold a festival to promote its tourism and culinary culture from April 16 to 18 at the Ly Thai To Statue Square, Bat Giac House area, Le Thach and Le Lai streets and the Hanoi Children's Palace in Hoan Kiem District.
This year’s event will feature around 200 pavilions set up in two main zones, reported VnExpress.
The zone to promote tourism products will house some 150 pavilions of 12 provinces and cities, travel firms, tourist hotspot operators in Hanoi and other localities across the country and four local carriers, namely Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Bamboo Airways and Vietravel Airlines.
The culinary culture zone at the Hanoi Children's Palace will introduce a host of Hanoi’s signature dishes and drinks. Top artisans, food experts and connoisseurs will also give talks about their industries and interact with visitors at the three-day event.
Dang Huong Giang, director of the municipal Department of Tourism, said that this year’s edition will launch many new tourism products, including night tours to explore the Thang Long Imperial Citadel, Hanoi city night tours, or tours to learn about agricultural life at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.
The event will also include a conference scheduled to take place on April 16 to launch thousands of new domestic tours and tourism products for 2021, with discounts of 15-35%. Besides this, participants of the conference will take part in a FAM trip from April 17 to 18 to survey tourism products in the capital city.