Speaking at the event, Deputy Director of the provincialDepartment of Tourism said the logo comprises a corner of Five-Phoenix Pavilion,several spans of Trang Tien bridge, and the external circle as a rising sun.
The logo, mostly in purple and red colour, is designed by Nguyen Thien Duc andNguyen Phu Duc.
Tourism is considered a spearhead economy of the provincewith the tour “Hue – One Destination, Five Heritages”. In the four months thisyear, Thua Thien – Hue welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors, up 40 percentannually. Of them, over 600,000 were foreigners, up 70 percent.
In particular, over 400,000 arrived in the province duringthe freshly concluded Hue Festival 2018, half of them were foreigners.
This year, the provincial tourism sector strives to serve 4– 4.2 million tourists, marking a 10-12 percent increase year-on-year, 40 – 45percent of them were foreigners. Those staying overnight reached 2.1 – 2.2million, up 17-19 percent, bringing nearly 4 – 4.2 trillion VND (177.7 – 186.7million USD) to the local State budget.
Hue city was the imperial capital of Vietnam for over 100 years. It is home to five UNESCO-recognised heritages, namely the Hue ancientcitadel relic complex – a World Cultural Heritage site; Nha Nhac (Hue royalcourt music) - an intangible cultural heritage item; Nguyen Dynasty’s woodblocks – a documentary heritage item; Nguyen Dynasty’s Chau ban (royaladministrative documents) – part of the Asia-Pacific Register of UNESCO’sMemory of the World Programme; and literature on Hue royal architecture - adocumentary heritage.-VNA