National Tourism Year - Hue 2025 is a typical cultural - economic - social and tourism event of national and international scale combined with Hue Festival 2025, associated with the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Hue City (March 26, 1975 - March 26, 2025) and other major holidays and anniversaries of the whole country; responding to and welcoming Hue to become a city directly under the Central Government.
According to the Organizing Committee, the opening art program of the National Tourism Year - Hue 2025 includes 3 chapters with the message "Confession of the river: Legend of a river; Converging rivers; New flow of rivers" showing the tangible and intangible cultural values, resources and unique tourism products of Vietnam. At the same time, it shows the spirit of promoting Hue Festival 2025, the spirit of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the homeland and the rise of Hue City under the Central Government.
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Perspective of floating stage project on Huong River. |
The special art program, staged grandly, with high artistic quality, with the participation and performance of more than 800 actors, singers, famous artists and the masses, along with international art troupes from China and Korea. The opening night also featured many unique and novel activities such as: light show using drone light, electronic water drums, panorama water music, flying dragons, flying parachutes.
Ms. Tran Thi Hoai Tram, Director of Hue City Department of Tourism, said that the opening ceremony of the National Tourism Year - Hue 2025 will take place from 8:10 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. on March 25 at the stage on the Perfume River, in front of Quoc Hoc School. Currently, the locality is urgently completing the stage on the water and the onshore grandstand with a capacity of about 5,500 seats for the opening ceremony.
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Workers and machines are rushing to complete the stage in time for the opening night. |
This is an opportunity to introduce and promote tangible and intangible cultural values, resources and unique tourism products of Vietnam in general and Hue City in particular; strongly promote tourism development linkages between localities. Unleash resources to exploit more effectively the potential, strengths and distinct advantages of the city to create a step of growth and comprehensive development of Hue tourism in terms of scale and quality of services, quantity; and tourist structure, contributing to the effective and sustainable development of Vietnam tourism in general and Hue City in particular.
National Tourism Year - Hue 2025 with the theme "Hue - Ancient Capital, New Opportunities" will have activities and events focusing on 4 main program groups: Spring festival "Spring of the Ancient Capital" (January - March); summer festival "Shining Imperial City" (April - June); autumn festival "Hue in Autumn" (July - September); winter festival "Winter of Hue" (October - December); there will be more than 170 national and provincial events.
Of which, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and central agencies organized 8 national-level activities; Hue City hosted 62 activities (including 46 activities of the National Tourism Year program and 16 activities within the framework of Hue Festival 2025); provinces and centrally-run cities organized 102 activities in response to National Tourism Year - Hue 2025.
Source: https://baophapluat.vn/nam-du-lich-quoc-gia-hue-2025-se-duoc-khai-mac-ben-bo-song-huong-post542763.html
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