Ha Long city will hold the festival of cherry-yellow apricot blossom, it falls on March 11-15 and the press conference on 23rd Feb.
This time will be the 6th of celebration at Ha Long city, the Northern Province of Quang Ninh. And Yen Tu with the 2nd time displays yellow apricot blossoms at this festival.
The celebrate cherry-yellow apricot blossom festival do not only introduce Quang Ninh’s tourism to tourist but also aims to boost diplomatic and friendly ties between Quang Ninh and Japanese businesses and people, introduce the Japanese cherry and yellow apricot blossoms of Yen Tu. The festival will help to increase the investment between Japanese and Vietnamese.
Japanese would like to visit this event, they need to check their status first, and then they can apply for Vietnam visa on arrival service at website: Myvisatovietnam.com
According to the report from of Ha Long City’s culture and information, the event organizer said that they have booked 50 Japanese cherry trees and 5,000 cherry blossom branches for the first step of organizing. The estimated time of trees and flowers’ arrival is from 28th Feb and 3rd Mar 2017. Besides, the yellow apricot trees of Yen Tu will be selected around 60 trees for displaying at the event.
As news, there are many attractive activities will be held on this occasion, with the main activities will be included Japan-Vietnam cultural and art exchange, a show of Japanese traditional culture and an exhibition featuring the world natural heritage Ha Long Bay, introducing tourism products made by local firms, outstanding tour operators and lodging facilities.
The Festival will also introduce the products’ signature with name “one commune, one product”, displaying at more than 170 stalls with household appliances, souvenirs, specialties of Quang Ninh – Vietnam as well as Japanese companies.
As a great action for attraction more Japanese tourist come to Quang Ninh-Vietnam, it has a conference promoting tourism investment between Viet Nam and Japan that will be open during the event.
The number of 53,000 Japanese tourists visited Quang Ninh Province on last year, it is only 3 percent of the total foreign arrivals in Quang Ninh.