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Nearly 32,000 people, including 1,682 foreigners, paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum from May 18-19 on the occasion of the late leader’s 134th birth anniversary (May 19,1890-2024), the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Management Board reported.

PSNews - The closing cerenomy of the 19th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival was held on April 9. According to the Organizing Board, the festival attracted over 190.000 visitors 

With the renowned artistic architecture of the Royal Palace intact, including plenty of historic relics and mausoleums of the Nguyen Dynasty, the former imperial city of Hue in central Vietnam is an attractive tourism hub during the Lunar New Year (Tet).

With the advantage of owning a long coastline, up to 3,200 kilometers with countless bays, Vietnam has become a favorite destination of many visitors globally.

Vietravel Airlines will launch its first flight in mid-December 2020 as opposed to the previous schedule of starting flights during the first half of 2021, according to Nguyen Quoc Ky, CEO of Vietravel, one of Vietnam’s leading tour operators.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue welcomed 2.11 million visitors in the first five months of 2019, including more than 1 million foreigners, up 14.46 percent year-on-year.

The northwestern province of Dien Bien has set a target of attracting up to 870,000 visitors in 2019, up 17% over 2018, including 180,000 foreign tourists.

More than 9 million foreigners visited Vietnam between January and November, up 25.4% compared to the same period in 2015, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has revealed.