Free admission to Complex of Hue Monuments on National Day
The central province of Thua Thien – Hue will offer free admission to the Complex of Hue Monuments, an UNESCO heritage site in Hue City, for Vietnamese visitors on National Day (September 2).
Ngo Mon (Noon Gate), the entryway into Hue Citadel. (Photo: VNA)
Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The central province ofThua Thien – Hue will offer free admission to the Complex of Hue Monuments, anUNESCO heritage site in Hue City, for Vietnamese visitors on National Day (September2).
During the National Day holiday from September 1 – 3, theprovince will host the Hue Half Marathon 2018, a traditional boat race festivalon the Huong River and a festival of “thanh tra”, a specialty pomelo of Hue, todraw visitors.
Travel agencies have designed sightseeing tours takingvisitors around famous temples around Hue and going on boat ride on the Huong River in the evening when tourists can enjoy live Hue folklore songperformances and drop floating lanterns on the river.
The province expects to welcome an increase of 15 percentin travellers during the holiday, said Deputy Director of the provincialDepartment of Tourism Nguyen Van Phuc. The department has intensifiedinspection of local lodging providers and their fire prevention. The lodgingproviders are required to publicly list their room rates to avoid unreasonableprice hike.
Thua Thien-Hue province is home to five UNESCO heritages,namely the Complex of Hue Monuments (World Heritage Site), Nha nhac –Vietnamese court music (part of the Representative List of the IntangibleCultural Heritage of Humanity), the woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty (part ofthe Memory of the World Programme), the imperial archives of the Nguyen Dynasty(part of the Memory of the World Programme), and the Royal Literature on HueRoyal Architecture (part of Documentary Heritage in the Memory of the WorldProgramme in the Asia-Pacific region).
The province is also well-known for Bach Ma NationalPark, garden houses of Hue, Tam Giang Lagoon, Lang Co Bay and beautifulbeaches.
It received approximately 3.3 million tourists in thefirst two quarters of 2018. The figure included over 1.3 million foreigners, up35 percent from the same period last year.
The province aims to lure 4 – 4.2 million visitors thisyear, up 10 – 12 percent, with about 40 – 45 percent being foreigners. It hopesto record a 15-percent increase in tourism revenue to 4.2 – 4.3 trillion VND(184.1 – 188.5 million USD). –VNA
Vietnamese visitors to the Hue Imperial Relic Site will be exempted from buying ticket during the first three days of the 2018 lunar year (February 16 to 18), said Director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre Phan Thanh Hai.
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Ngo Mon (Noon Gate), the entryway into Hue Citadel. (Photo: VNA)
