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Lao Cai hosts Northwest Cuisine Festival

The Northwest Cuisine Festival opened in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on October 20 as part of the National Tourism Year 2017.
Lao Cai hosts Northwest Cuisine Festival ảnh 1Visitors to the Northwest Cuisine Festival (Source: nhandan.org.vn)

Lao Cai (VNA) – The NorthwestCuisine Festival opened in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai onOctober 20 as part of the National Tourism Year 2017.

With 55 booths, the festival aimsto promote typical dishes of the five northwest provinces of Lao Cai, Lai Chau,Dien Bien, Hoa Binh and Yen Bai, as well as those from Hanoi, northern ThaiNguyen, Ninh Binh and Bac Giang provinces, and the central provinces of NinhThuan and Thua Thien-Hue.

Speaking at the opening ceremony,Deputy General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism NgoHoai Chung said that the event is held in the context that Vietnam’s tourismsector is receiving much attention from the Vietnamese Party and State and theentire society.

In the first nine months of 2017,Vietnam welcomed 9.4 million foreign tourists, a year-on-year rise of 28.4percent, making it one of the world’s 10 nations with the highest growth in thenumber of foreign tourists.

This is a premise for Vietnam toachieve an increase of at least 30 percent, or 13 million internationalvisitors this year, Chung added.

The festival will open tovisitors until October 23.-VNA
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