The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai expects to welcome
the one-millionth tourist this year during a festival celebrating the
110th anniversary of Sa Pa , the province’s renown resort town,
slated for October 25 – November 3.
A wide
range of activities will be held during the event, including an
exhibition highlighting Sa Pa and its journey to become a national
tourism urban centre, and an international conference on preserving
cultural heritage of mountainous ethnic groups in combination with
developing sustainable tourism products in the context of globalisation.
A Sa Pa street carnival and a programme
to discover Fansipan, the highest peak in Indochina , and a fireworks
display will also take place within the framework of the event.
On this occasion, a ceremony to announce the recognition of terraced
rice fields in Sa Pa as a national landscape site will be held on
November 2.
As of the end of September, the
number of visitors to the province reached 956,290, a year-on-year
increase of 13.9 percent, representing 95 percent of the set target for
2013.-VNA