The
Noi Bai International Airport received over 1,000 foreign holidaymakers during
the first three days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, according to the
airport’s Border Customs Agency.

Travelers were mostly from Europe and overseas Vietnamese who
visited their homeland for the Tet holiday.

On the occasion, the airport’s 82 flights brought nearly 8,000 visitors to
countries and territories worldwide.

Meanwhile, the number of tourists to Hue city on these days increased sharply,
reaching about 50,000, some 20,000 higher than last year.

A large number of arrivals came from European countries, Japan and Thailand.

The ancient capital city celebrated the Tet festival with a wide range of
activities and festivals launched in different localities, opening an array of
this year’s cultural, sports and tourism events to welcome the National Tourism
Year to be organised in the city in 2012.

Tourism destinations of the Hue’s relic site opened for free during the first
three days of the Lunar New Year.

Flower Street attracts 800,000 residents, visitors

The HCM City’s annual Nguyen Hue
Flower Street attracted nearly 800,000 local and foreign visitors during the Tet
holiday (Lunar New Year), organisers said.

After it opened on
January 31 (December 28 in the lunar calendar), the flower street welcomed more
than 100,000 city residents as well as visitors from neighbouring provinces and
foreign countries each day, said Tran Hung Viet, deputy general director of
Saigontourist and head of the 2011 Tet Festival organisation board.

This year’s flower
street, in its eighth annual edition, was themed Tam Cao Moi (New Heights),
reflecting the city’s aspiration to post greater socio-economic achievements.

Apart from floral
bonanza in different spring themes, highlights this year included the 5m-high
Cau Mua (Worshipping for Good Crops) Flower Tower that visitors could climb and
get an overview of the whole street.

The flower street was closed for
clearing on Sunday and reopened to traffic on February 7.

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