Hoi An will celebrate New Year with fireworks

In this new year of the Tiger (Canh Dần Year), the Hoi An government will celebrate the Tets Festival with so many activities, including fireworks festival (begining at the midnight of the end day of year at three places in the city) and a kiss festival with over 1000 lovers at Hoai River Square. Travel2hoian.com will updated information as soon as possible.

To have more infomation about Hoi An Tets Festival: Download file Hoi An Old Town – Tiger Tets Festivel – PDF Version – Vietnamese hoặc Hoi An Old Town – Tiger Tets Festivel – JPG Version – Vietnamese

Hoi An Lantern Festival 2010

Authorities in Hoi An will host a lantern festival to celebrate the Lunar New Year, decorating the city’s ancient tower and honoring the local handicraft of lantern making.

The festival will open in the 30th evening of the twelfth lunar month in 2009, which falls on February 13, 2010. The city will be bathed in the colorful, sparkling lantern lights arranged in traditional and modern shapes of fruits, Vị trí đặt quảng cáodragons, a phoenix, turtles, buffalo and other symbols of stars, moon, bridges and ancient buildings representing the architecture of the ancient town. Read more

Hoian – Street Festival

Thousands of people come to Hoi An street to join the street festival in Hoi An welcomes New Year 2010. Here are some photos of this street festival. Hoping that you will like.

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THE 4th QUẢNG NAM – HERITAGE JOURNEY – 2009

“THE 4th QUẢNG NAM – HERITAGE JOURNEY – 2009” will be celebrated in June 4th – 7th, 2009 in the Hoi An Old town. You can download the detail programme in PDF or JPG file

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Discounts lure more visitors to Hoi An

A discount campaign in the ancient town of Hoi An has encouraged nearly 60 percent more domestic tourists to visit the ancient town this year.

The city government attributed the increase in visitor numbers to a VND4 billion (US$225,288) campaign to stimulate local tourism and upgrade infrastructure and local attractions, as well as the national “Impressive Vietnam” campaign.

Hoi An City People’s Committee Deputy Chairman Truong Van Bay said 317,000 tourists visited the World Heritage-listed in the first three months of this year, an overall increase of 5.8 percent on the first quarter of last year.

During the quarter, the number of domestic tourists rose by 57.6 percent over the same period last year.

The hotel occupancy rate in Hoi An, famous for its monthly lantern festival, is now 82.7 percent, higher than the usual rate of 75 to 80 percent. Read more

Hoian Earthhour

Hoi An responds to Earth Hour campaign
The ancient city of Hoi An, which has been recognised by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage site, will turn off its lights in an hour on March 28 to respond to the global “Earth Hour” campaign.
According to municipal authorities, all ancient houses, shops, hotels and restaurants in this tourist city will turn off their lights from 20.30 to 21.30 on March 28. Instead, they will use candles, candle wax and nut oil to fuel lamps and lanterns.
“Without neon lights, the ancient quarters and the area surrounding the Hoai River will be more dazzling with thousands of lanterns,” says Vo Phung, director of the Hoi An Municipal Department of Culture and Sports.
He says that local campaigners will encourage tourists and citizens to buy lanterns to be released on the Hoai River and the proceeds will go to Fund for the Poor.

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