Despite drizzle and cold weather, 31,000 visitors, including 7,200
foreigners, visited relics in the former imperial city of Hue during the
first three days of the Lunar New Year (Jan. 23-25).
Visiting
Hue on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Christina Volkmann from the
US and Graham Brigge from Australia said that Hue is very
beautiful and local people are friendly and hospitable.
According
to the Hue Relics Preservation Centre, Thua Thien-Hue province plans to
welcome between 2-2.5 million visitors to see the Hue relics this
year, especially since the province will be the locality to launch the
national tourism year.
The province also aims to expand
cooperation with partners from the Republic of Korea , Japan ,
Germany , the US and Poland , to recover and preserve projects in
the relics sites.
The centre said it is researching the royal
gastronomy under the Nguyen dynasty and the system of poetry and
literature system of Hue relics, in order to submit them for recognition
as world heritages in the 2013-2014 period./.