At the Tourism Gift Festival (Photo: VNA)Theevent aims to gradually recover the capital's tourism activities post-pandemic,in conjunction with the 31st SEA Games and the Visit Vietnam Year – Quang Nam2022.
According to the municipal Tourism Department, the event features differentspaces for visitors to discover craft village culture, art, travel photos andlocal products.
Attendees will be treated to performances of graffiti art, flashmobs, acousticmusic and skateboarding, as well as a cycle rickshaw ride around the lake.
Other highlights of the fair include talk shows involving catru (ceremonial singing) performers and artisans of water puppets andpaper fans; a coffee tasting event; hands-on experience activities of makingchildren's toys; and a photo exhibition on Hanoi.
Also on the occasion, organisers will launch a gift product designing contest,a tourism photo contest with the theme 'Hanoi Through Tourists’ Perspective',and other social activities like exchanging books for trees, old batteries fortrees and books for fruits, while travel companies and airlines are ready toprovide a briefing on their special tours and attractive discount programmes.
The Tourism Gift Festival is among a series of events scheduled to take placein late April and May with the aim of attracting tourists to the city on theoccasion of the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in May.
The number of visitorsto Hanoi – all domestic – totalled four million last year, plunging about 47percent from 2020 and just equivalent to 36.3 percent of the yearly plan.Tourism revenue nosedived some 59.8 percent year-on-year to 11.28 trillion VND.
The city is going step by step to completely resume tourism activities in 2022,with the aim of welcoming nine to ten million tourists, including around twomillion foreigners, according to the municipal People’s Committee./.
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