The Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival, slated for November 3-5 at the Tran Nhan Tong pedestrian space in Hai Ba Trung district, is expected to promote the capital city’s image as an attractive and safe tourist destination, and support artisans and craft village in making their products better meet the demand of both domestic and international tourists.
Tourists explore products of Thuy Ung Horn Comb Craft Village in Thuong Tin district (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival,slated for November 3-5 at the Tran Nhan Tong pedestrian space in Hai Ba Trungdistrict, is expected to promote the capital city’s image as an attractive andsafe tourist destination, and support artisans and craft village in making their products better meet the demand of both domestic and international tourists.
Themed “Hanoi – Come to love,” the festival is hoped tobecome a highlight of the Hanoi tourism, helping increase the capital city’sattractiveness to visitors.
Hanoi craft villages and businesses will display their gift products at 70 booths at the event, alongside an art exhibition using 3D mappingtechnology, displays of typical craft villages of Hanoi such as PhuVinh rattan and bamboo village, Thach Xa bamboo dragonfly village, and BatTrang pottery village. A photo exhibition spotlighting the beauty of Hanoi willalso be arranged.
According to Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Travel AssociationPhung Quang Thang, Hanoi is home to 1,350 craft villages, including more than300 recognised traditional craft villages. However, the presence of giftproducts by these villages in tourist sites and destinations has remainedmodest due to old-fashioned designs, he said.
Head of the Sub-Association of Craft Villages - AncientVillages - Cultural Villages Nguyen Van Su said that what the villages lack is new designs for their products. He expressed hope to coordinate with artists andcreative designers to make modern designs for craft villages’ products.
Director of the Hanoi Tourism Department Dang Huong Giangsaid that the department will coordinate with localities across the city topromote craft village tourism, while developing more outlets introducinggift products to create new destinations for the city’s tourism.
In recent years, Hanoi has organised many creative designcompetitions for gift products. The city has held the annual Tourism GiftFestival in a bid to connect craft villages and gift productionfacilities and local residents and tourists.
In the first 10 months of this year, Hanoi welcomed 20.7 million visitors, including 3.6 million foreign travellers, up 34.3% and 3.5 times year on year, respectively./.
To create a breakthrough in tourism promotion, and contribute to the rapid and sustainable development of Hanoi's tourism industry, the Department of Tourism of the capital city has launched a gift design contest and a tourism photo competition.
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Tourists explore products of Thuy Ung Horn Comb Craft Village in Thuong Tin district (Photo: VNA) 
