The street carnival returned to the beach city of Sam Son in the northern province of Thanh Hoa on June 18, attracting thousands of audiences who came to enjoy one of the province’s most fabulous tourism event of the year.
The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic over the past nearly two years has taken toll on tourism of Vietnam and the central province of Thanh Hoa in particular, forcing localities, especially national tourism landmarks, to focus on domestic market rather than overseas one.
The central province of Thanh Hoa, home to a large number of tangible and intangible heritage including various traditional festivals, is rolling out practical measures to combine tourism development with the preservation and promotion of the heritages' values.
The People’s Committee of the central province of Thanh Hoa on October 23 opened a pavilion at the Hanoi-Moscow Complex in Russiato introduce its specialties as well as industrial and handicraft products to local consumers and businesses.
The Thanh Hoa International Tourism Festival opened on September 14, drawing a large number of travel and aviation firms as well as representatives from diplomatic and tourism promotion agencies from many countries.
Bestowed with gorgeous natural landscapes and diverse cultural space, the northern central province of Thanh Hoa has huge potential to branch out a wide range of tourism products, however, it faces calls for reform towards sustainable tourism development.
Central Thanh Hoa province’s intangible heritages – Tro Chieng Festival and Sing and Dance under Bon Tree Festival - have been recorgnised as national culture intangible heritages.