Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has planned to develop culinary
tourism into a national strategic product, contributing to improving the competitiveness
and brand of Vietnam’s tourism.
Vietnamese food has proven attractive, being loved and honoured by international
tourists.
The Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT) mentioned strategic cooperation to
promote tourism, cuisine and culture of Vietnam to the world through the
project “embellishing myriad raw materials and cooking
millions of Vietnamese dishes”, which aims to honour diverse cuisine and
culture values of the country.
The project focuses on applying information technology so that localities can
put typical culinary products on the same national register, thereby building a
digital map of Vietnamese cuisine, and local culinary communities in provinces and cities across the
country.
The International Food Festival – Quang Nam 2023 is
scheduled to take place from August 31 – September 3 in the central province of
Quang Nam. The event is expected to contribute to honouring, preserving,
promoting and effectively exploiting the cultural value, cuisine and tourism.
The
event will feature 26 traditional dishes of Quang Nam. The organisation board
will announce a decision to include the handmade Quang noodle-making industry on
the list of national intangible culture heritage.
Many
localities across the country are actively organising attractive tourism
activities to attract domestic and foreign tourists during the summer.
The first Ho Chi Minh City river festival, the Hue Festival 2023 – Autumn Festival will
be held in August with a wide range of activities to lure both local and foreign visitors.
Guidelines and policies on tourism have been popularised on
the websites https://vietnamtourism.gov.vn, https://vietnam.travel and social networking sites of VNAT, highlighting that the new policy on visas,
and entry and exit will officially take effect from August 15.
Experts said that the new policy will help improve the competitiveness
of Vietnam’s tourism in attracting foreign tourism arrivals in the coming time./.
VNA