A ceremony was held in Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue to hand over a project to clean the Noon Gate - the southern main gateway of Hue former imperial city, which is sponsored by Germany’s Karcher Group, to the Hue Monument Conservation Centre.
As many as 1.2 million domestic tourists and 1.5 million foreigners visited Hue imperial relic site in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue in the first eight months of 2018, according to the Hue Monument Conservation Centre.
Visitors from the Republic of Korea (RoK) accounted for one third of the 1.01 million foreign tourists to the central province of Thua Thien-Hue in the first half of this year, creating the largest market of the province’s tourism sector, statistics show.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue welcomed more than 1.1 million visitors in the first three months of this year, up 39.5 percent from the same period last year, including 534,600 foreigners, a surge of 70.3 percent.
Anger broke out on social networks when it was discovered that an iconic building in the former imperial capital city of Hue had been changed completely while being restored.