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Hanoi’s hotel industry continued to improve in the first quarter of 2023 as domestic and international travel to Vietnam and the city increased, according to research and consulting firm Savills Vietnam.  International visitors at a relic site in Phu Xuyen District, Hanoi. Photo: Hoai Nam/ The Hanoi Times The consulting firm said international visitors to Vietnam increased by 2,900% year-on-year to 2.7 million in January-March. Meanwhile, Hanoi received 5.9 million visitors in the first quarter of this year, up 110% year-on-year. The number of domestic visitors reached 4.9 million, up 75% year-on-year, while international arrivals reached 979,000, an increase of 5,900% compared to the first quarter of 2022. There were 10,260 hotel rooms available in Hanoi, including 17 hotels with five stars, 18 with four stars, and 31 with three stars. Savills Vietnam experts said this supply increased by 1% quarterly and annually. The occupancy rate increased by 35 percentage p...

The annual 2023 Traditional Festival of Hat Mon Temple is scheduled to be held from April 23 to 25 in Hat Mon Commune, Phuc Tho District, Hanoi, promising to attract a large number of locals and visitors. The procession of floating cakes to worship Trung Sisters will be held this year at Hat Mon Temple’s Traditional Festival. Photo: Trong Tung The festival’s highlight is the floating cake and incense offering procession to commemorate the 1980 anniversary of the death of Hai Ba Trung or Trung Sisters (43-2023). According to Nguyen Quoc Thang, head of the management board of Hat Mon Temple Relics, the ritual of offering floating cakes to the Trung Sisters on their death anniversary, which falls on March 6 of the Lunar Calendar, dates back about a thousand years. “The most delicious and beautiful plates of floating cakes prepared by exemplary local households are offered to the Trung Sisters. Meanwhile, for a few days before the date, local people will refrain from ...