Vietnam honored as World's Leading Heritage Destination for the 4th time

This is the fourth time Vietnam has received this prestigious award, surpassing many strong candidates such as Egypt, Greece, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Armenia.

Vietnam's previous honors were in 2019, 2020 and 2022. This shows the outstanding global values ​​and attractiveness of Vietnam's cultural heritage to the international community.

Along with the title of World's Leading Heritage Destination 2023, Vietnam also has local destinations that were also awarded in the award category. Specifically, Hanoi was honored with the title of "World's Leading City Destination 2023". Phu Quoc Island won the title of "World's Leading Natural Island Destination 2023". Moc Chau was honored as "World's Leading Local Natural Destination 2023". Ha Nam won the award of "World's Leading Local Cultural Destination 2023". Tam Dao won the title of "World's Leading Town Destination 2023...

According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism: Being honored as the World's Leading Heritage Destination will continue to affirm the potential and leading attraction of natural resources and the value of our country's long-standing cultural heritage. The award will contribute to promoting the image of Vietnamese tourism more widely to international friends, while affirming the efforts of the community to preserve and promote the value of heritage.

Dr. Ha Van Sieu, Deputy Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, said: Cultural heritage is a tourism resource with strong appeal, a driving force to attract more and more tourists, especially international tourists to Vietnam. The tourism industry considers cultural heritage as the foundation and important pillar for developing the tourism economy; an active support tool in positioning the image and building the Vietnamese tourism brand. Heritage-based tourism activities in many places such as Hue, Hoi An, Ha Long, Trang An, Hanoi, etc. have created income and jobs for local people. Heritage tourism also contributes to enhancing understanding, respecting diversity and cultural exchange, forming the basis for forming appropriate codes of conduct between people, tourists and heritage. The benefits of heritage tourism are not small. A part of the revenue from heritage tourism is reinvested in preserving, embellishing, honoring, restoring and managing heritage. It can be seen that heritage tourism contributes greatly to the conservation and sustainable promotion of cultural heritage...