The events, taking place from October 25 to 31, aim to continue to preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values of the country, and contribute to building and developing a Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity.

Southern Cuisine Festival and Cultural and Tourism Week open.

Attending to this year’s festival, visitors have the chance to enjoy a series activities such as the 2nd Southern Cuisine Festival; a tourism exhibition; an Introduction to the Tra Vinh tourism brand identity; a tourism trade fair with more than 370 booths of 135 units; a week honouring safe products; Tra Vinh Province’s Khmer Arts Festival; a competition for performing traditional costumes of the Khmer people; Workshop titled ‘Du Ke stage - 100 years of establishment and development’; Ok Om Bok Festival along with sports activities, folk games and Ngo boat racing; and an exhibition showcasing typical products of Khmer people in nine districts, towns and cities.

Tra Vinh was established a long time ago, creating alluvial land with many floating dunes along the river by nature. The intersection of cultures has created many landscapes and historical sites with great potential for tourism development, such as culinary tourism, garden ecotourism, and cultural spiritual tourism.

In order to bring tourism to become a key economic sector of the province, while preserve and develop Ok Om Bok Festival, the Provincial People's Committee have organised the second Southern Cuisine Festival and Cultural and Tourism Week in association with the Tra Vinh Ok Om Bok Festival 2020.

The event is considered as an opportunity for localities, economic organisations, and enterprises inside and outside the province to introduce their economic potentials, promote their brands, and look for business partners, as well as cooperate to invest in economic development. 

At the same time, the event is a place for businesses to exchange, approach market expansion, sell goods and sign trade. This is also an attractive destination for domestic and foreign tourists to visit, have fun and enjoy the entertainment.

Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival opens

The seventh Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai (traditional long dress) Festival kicked off on October 11 at the Vietnam History Museum in district 1, with many excellent collections of famous designers on show.

Pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem lake bustle with youth dance festival

A youth dance festival themed ‘Dances of Colours’ was staged at the pedestrian street area around Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi on October 10 by the city’s Youth Union in collaboration with the city’s Department of Culture and Sports.

HCM City: Ao Dai Festival scheduled for October 11-12

The seventh Ao Dai (traditional long dress) Festival in Ho Chi Minh City will take place at the Vietnam History Museum in District 1 from October 11-12.

Quan ho singing festival to be kicked off on October 18 in Bac Giang province

(BGO) – According to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the sixth Quan ho (Love duet) singing festival in Bac Giang province will be kicked off on October 18, 2020 in Bac Giang city (Bac Giang province) with the participation from 10 art troops in 10 districts, city and Quan ho Culture Association in Bac Giang province.

Photo exhibition and dance festival mark Hanoi’s Liberation Day

A photo exhibition entitled ‘Thang Long - Hanoi: Historical Milestones’ opened in the pedestrian area along Dinh Tien Hoang Street in Hanoi on October 3 as an event to mark the 1010th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi and the 66th anniversary of the capital city's Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-2020).

Source: NDO