With its focus on the creative economy, this year’s festival marks a shift from a standalone cultural event towards building an urban creative ecosystem.
The resort city of Da Lat welcomed about 153,000 tourist arrivals from February 8 to 12, the first five days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, rising 22.4% year on year, reported the municipal People’s Committee.
Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2023 with an impressive display of creative activities is underway in various areas in the capital city from November 17-26.
The Vietnam Railway Corporation (VNR) has announced that it will offer special train services shuttling between the centre of Hanoi and Gia Lam train factory which is the venue of the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2023 from November 17-26.
The Cambodian government plans to submit documents for Battambang city in the province of the same name to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Creative Cities Network (UCCN) this year.
As part of the Government’s cultural development strategy, Vietnam aims to have three cities in the UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network across many fields, including cuisine, by 2030.
Phuket in southern Thailand has been dubbed as a “City of Gastronomy” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).