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.
The biennial Hue Traditional Craft Festival, which honours the value of heritage and raises the quality of traditional trade villages, has helped Vietnamese handicraft products reach out to the world.
Thua Thien-Hue has received 25,000 EUR (29,000 USD) from a UK national who donated the money to help the central province develop traditional craft products.
There was a time people in Phu Tan village, in central Phu Yen province, thought sedge mat weaving, the region’s traditional craft, was going to die out.
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