More than 10,000 people attended last Saturday’s 2008 Ha long tourism Festival at Bai Chay Ferry in Quang Ninh Province, according to the Quang Ninh Tourism Department.
About 3,000 professional and amateur performers strutted their stuff in a street parade. Other highlights included an exhibition of 10 model cars decorated with flowers, six large moving stages, 100 tourist boats, dragon boats and dragon ferries.
A fireworks show on Bai Chay Bridge in the Luc estuary closed the festival with a bang.
Vietnamese firms to join seven more international tourism fairs in 2008
Vietnamese tourism companies and travel agencies will make a showing in seven more international travel fairs this year in order to advertise potential tourism products and bring in more foreign tourists, according to the Viet nam National Administration for Tourism.
The seven international fairs include the JATA tourism fair in Japan, the PATA Travel Mart in Thailand, the Top Resa in France and the Trade Show Fair in the US in September, the Shanghai CITM fair in China and the AITEX fair in Cambodia in October, and the WTM fair in the UK in November 2008.
This year Vietnamese firms have already participated in the ATF international tourism 2008 in Thailand, the world’s largest tourism fair, ITB in Berlin and the Intour Market in Russia.
Source : VNS
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