Among them is the Hue Traditional Craft Festival fromApril 28 to May 5, a highlight of the summer festival which will last fromApril to June as part of the 2023 Hue Festival.
Sixty-one craft villages and facilities both in andoutside the province have registered for the 8th craft festival.
Notably, for the first time, the craft festival willfeature activities such as running, cycling, photo and painting exhibitions,and art performances capturing the iconic Huong (Perfume) River, and localresidents.
Thua Thien-Hue served over 2 million visitors lastyear, up nearly 190% against 2021, and earned more than 4.5 trillion VND (190million USD) from the sector, surpassing the set target by 12.5%.
It is striving to welcome from 3-3.5 million holidaymakersthis year, of whom some 70-80% are domestic, and gross about 6-7 trillion VND in revenue.
To that end, the province has focused onagriculture-based tourism, eco-tourism, golf tourism and medical tourism, amongother sustainable tourism products.
Hue, a former imperial capital of Vietnam forhundreds of years, is home to five heritages recognised by UNESCO, includingthe ancient citadel relic complex (a World Cultural Heritage site), Hue royalcourt music (an intangible cultural heritage item), Nguyen Dynasty’s woodblocks (a documentary heritage item), Nguyen Dynasty’s royal administrativedocuments (part of the Asia-Pacific Register of UNESCO’s Memory of the WorldProgramme), and literature on Hue royal architecture (another documentaryheritage)./.