Seminar aimed at increasing votes for Halong Bay

Ga Choi Islet

A seminar was held in the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 1 to find out ways to win more votes for Halong Bay to be recognized as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World

The seminar witnessed the huge participation of number of foreign diplomatic staff including ambassadors and counselors in Vietnam, Vietnamese and foreign tourists.

An official from the Foreign Ministry suggested the spread of information and promotion of the image of Halong Bay at major sport and music events, or on social networks, like facebook, twisters and youtube, and mobile phone systems can help to encourage people, specially students and public employees, to vote for Halong Bay.

The Deputy Director of Quang Ninh Television Station, Mai Vu Tuan, proposed increasing broadcasts of Halong Bay’s values on domestic radio and television programmes as well as on foreign radios and televisions, such as the Republic of Korea’s Kangwon television and China’s Guangxi television and radio, which have established cooperative ties with Vietnam.

Halong Bay needs to collect 60 million votes to become one of the new 7 wonders of the world.

The New Open World will announce the final list of the new 7 wonders of the world on November 11.

To vote for Ha Long Bay, please visit the website www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/vote.

Source: VOV News

List of activities during Halong Tourism Week 2011

The Halong Tourism Week 2011 from April 28th to May 2nd takes place in several districts and cities in the province of Quang Ninh. The 5th annual celebration of Ha Long Carnival is expected to be the highlight of the Tourism Week.

 Halong Carnaval 2010

The list of activities organised during the festival week is as follows:

April 29, 2011 

7:30 – Tran Quoc Nghien Temple Festival (Lan Be, Halong city)

9:00 – Opening Ceremony of Halong Bay Photo Exhibition (Thanh Nien Tourism area, Halong city)

9:00 – Opening Ceremony of Open Mong Cai Tennis and Football Tournament (Mong Cai city)

16:00 - Halong Cuisine Festival (Thanh Nien Tourism area, Halong city)

20:00 – Poetry and Music night on Halong (Thanh Nien tourism area, Halong city)

April 30, 2011 

8:00 – Open Quang Ninh Dance Sports Championship (Quang Ninh Stadium, Halong city)

8:00 – Exhibition on Ornaments, Fighting Cock Competition (Royal International Park, Halong city)

9:00 – Beach Volleyball Tournament (Tuan Chau International Tourism Area, Halong city)

9:00 – Open Quang Ninh Tennis Tournament (Halong Stadium)

15:00 – Vietnam Folk Games (Thanh Nien Tourism Area, Halong city)

20:00 – Poetry and Music Night on Yen Tu (Yen Tu Heritage Landmark)

20:00 – Quang Ninh Trademark Promotion Fair 2011 (The Children’s House of Quang Ninh Province)

20:00 – The Final Round of The Best MC on Halong Bay contest (Vietnam – Japan Labor Culture Palace, Halong city)

20:00 – Mong Cai (Vietnam) – Dongxing (China) Cultural and Art Exchange (Mong Cai city)

20:00 – Hip-hop Dance Team Festival 2011 (Thanh Nien Tourism Area, Halong city)

May 1, 2011 

8:00 – Conference on voting for Halong Bay as one of new seven natural wonders (Halong city)

8:00 – Open Quang Ninh Dance Sports Tournament (Quang Ninh Stadium, Halong city)

20:00- Hip-hop Dance Team Festival 2011 (Thanh Nien Tourism Area, Halong city)

20:00- Halong Carnaval 2011 (Bai Chay Tourism Area, Halong city)

May 2, 2011 

9:00 – Classical Music Concert in the Dau Go Cave (Dau Go cave)

20:00- Mysterious Halong Night (Cot 3 Area, Halong city)


See more:

Halong Tourism Festival Week 2011 (Updated)

Source: QN News

Vote for Halong in Museums

Vote for Halong Bay

International Cooperation Department and Department of Cultural Heritage (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) have just launched a voting campaign for Halong Bay to become one of new seven wonders of nature in museums where attracts a great number of domestic and international tourists.

Voting campaign will be carried out at Vietnam Revolution Museum, Ho Chi Minh Museum, Vietnam History Museum, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, President Ho Chi Minh Relic’s Site at the Presidential Palace during the last week of April.

Reportedly, for four weeks, the proportion of votes by foreigners have accounted for 72.39%. Meanwhile New Open World, the organisation launched the competition, encouraged at least 90% votes. 

Source: Hanoimoi

Vote for Halong Bay at Tourism centers

Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has sent  official letters to the travel companies, hotels, tourism training schools to intensify the voting campaign for Halong Bay to become the world’s natural wonders with a slogan: “Each worker in the tourism industry one vote for Halong Bay”, “Each tourist one vote for Halong Bay”.

It is known that funding for this campaign is one billion VND. Ballots will be printed in four languages: Vietnamese, English, French, Chinese (one side is the image of Ha Long Bay, the back side is the slogan and voting instructions) and be issued to the following subjects: tourism enterprises; domestic tourist sites; Embassies and Representatives of international organizations in Vietnam; in the internal or overseas tourism events; representative networks of Vietnam Airlines and other airlines which fly to Vietnam.
 
In April, VNAT is going to carry on the voting campaign in major tourism centers around the country such as Ha Long, Hanoi, Quang Binh, Hue, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho …

Source: Hanoimoi, QN News