Parades as part of the Street Show programme on May 13 (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City haslaunched a Street Show programme in Nguyen Hue walking street, with weeklyperformances every Saturday and Sunday.
This month, the shows are being held under thetheme “Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City”, starting from May 13.
According to the organisation board, the street artperformances will combine both traditional and modern art forms, with thestages designed to feature traits of the city, such as city tour buses, vibrantparks and street food stalls.
The programme is hoped to become one of the maintourism attractions of city, Director of the municipal Department of TourismBui Ta Hoang Vu said, adding that the city invites both domestic and foreign troupesand individuals to perform in the city.
Since late 2016, the municipal Department ofTourism has conducted numerous programmes to promote the city’s tourism, suchas Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival, Tourism Festival, Food Festival.
In the first quarter of this year, the number offoreign visitors to the city exceeded 1.5 million, up 15 percent from 2016.
The tourism sector earned 27.7 trillion VND(1.22 billion USD), up nearly 16 percent year on year.-VNA
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