During the Lunar New Year holiday from January 31 – February11, the total tourist arrivals in Hue hit 230,000, including over 70,800 foreigners,up 5 percent annually.
The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre held tours “Hue – OneDestination, Five Heritages”, folk games, calligraphy and martial arts display,lion dances to attract visitors.
Chan May port welcomed luxury cruise liner CelebrityConstellation, carrying over 2,000 tourists from the US, Canada, the UK andFrance to the locality, who were the first cruise visitors to land in theprovince in 2019.
During the stay, they visited destinations in ancient Huecapital, Da Nang city and Hoi An ancient town.
Chan May has become one of the 46 seaports chosen by the AsiaCruise Association as a stopover for cruise liners in Southeast Asia.
The department worked with Apex Vietnam Travel JSC to holdtwo famtrips for Japanese travel agencies to survey local destinations fromMarch 1-2 in the first stage and from March 19-20 in the second stage,including Hue Imperial Citadel, Khai Dinh temple, Thien Mu pagoda and tastinglocal cuisines.
The Japanese delegation also held a working session withleaders of the Hue High School for the Gifted to build study tours for Japanesehigh school students, enabling them to study and exchange with fellows in Hue.
In 2019, the province strives to welcome 4.5- 4.7 milliontourists, up nearly 8 percent annually, 40-45 percent of them will be foreigners.Tourism revenue is expected to rise by nearly 10 percent to 4.7 – 4.9 trillionVND (204 – 213 million USD) while social revenue will reach 12-13 trillionVND.-VNA