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Hanoi Tourism and Culinary Culture Festival 2021: A special event to visit

The festival is directed by the Hanoi People's Committeeand organized by the Center for Promotion, Investment, Trade and Tourism in collaboration with the Department of Tourism.

The Hanoi Tourism and Culinary Culture Festival 2021attracts a large number of people to attend on the weekend.

The festival is directed by the Hanoi People's Committeeand organized by the Center for Promotion, Investment, Trade and Tourism in collaboration with the Department of Tourism.

The festival consists of 200 booths, which are divided into two areas: the area to promote products to stimulate tourism and the area to introduce the culinary culture of Hanoi.

At the event, businesses introduce more than 1.000 attractive tourism products at preferential prices.

In addition, this area also displays and introduces products of tourist attractions in Hanoi city and Vietnamese airlines.

Residents and visitors can experience the festival space with many introductions of Hanoi tourist destinations.

Hanoi's tourism industry is building culinary culture as a unique tourism product of Hanoi.

The typical culture of different regions gathers at the Hanoi Tourism and Culinary Culture Festival 2021.

Hanoi expects propaganda activities to attract domestic tourists including Vietnamese and foreigners living in Hanoi, and at the same time promote to a large number of people and tourists about Hanoi as a "safe - friendly - quality - attractive"destination.

The event takes place from 16 - 18 April 2021 at the area of Ly Thai To monument and Hoan Kiem walking street./.

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