Visitors travel to Huong Pagoda on boats. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – This year’s Huong Pagoda Festivalin the suburban area of Hanoi welcomed approximately 1.4 million tourists, up6,000 from the same period last year and including about 7,800 foreignvisitors, according to the People’s Committee of My Duc district.
The district has earned nearly 175 billion VND fromticket sales, the committee announced at a conference on June 14 to review theorganisation of the biggest and longest festival in Vietnam that lasts throughthree spring months.
The organising board has increased inspection around theHuong Pagoda to prevent any activity having bad effects on the religious spacewhile vendors were banned from setting up shops or booths near worship areas,like pagodas, temples, shrines and caves.
Inspection groups have seized over 300 books with superstitioncontents, 120 pirate discs, 450 illegal toy guns, six fortune tellingadvertisement signs and ten illegal advertisement banners in the festivalareas. They also suspended operation of unlicensed traditional medical clinics.
Good security and improved traffic in both road andwaterway have given visitors better experience. Local police have detained tenpeople for illegal soliciting travellers to buy goods or use services and fined32 others for boat overloading or not having a garbage container on theirboats.
Vice Chairman of the district People’s Committee NguyenVan Hau vowed for the district to keep up such good works during the comingfestivals.
The district is asking the Prime Minister’s approval torecognise the Huong Son relic site as a national special relic.-VNA
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