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(Cinet) – Recently, the Lao Cai Provincial Library already held the conference for officials 2011. The conference had the participation of : the representatives of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the representatives of Lao Cai Provincial Library with the delegations of officials, staffs of the Library. At the conference, the representatives of Lao Cai provincial library and the Executive Board of the library delegation reported some contents such as: the results of implementing tasks in 2010 and the orientation, tasks in 2011, reporting operation results, the orientation in 2011 of the People’s Inspectorate, ect. Besides, the draft on drafting working regulations, regulations on internal spending towards officials and staffs of Lao Cai province library which has been passed at the the conference. Also at the conference, the delegation of library officials carried out discussing and contributed practical ideas to implement well the tasks in 2011. Ending … [Read more...] about Lao Cai Library: Holding the conference for officials in 2011

The Bac Ha Traditional Horse Race Open 2011 will take place on May 28th and 29th at the Bac Ha Town Stadium in the northern province of Lao Cai. The coming event, as part of the tourism development program under the theme “Returning to Roots 2011” held in Lao Cai, Yen Bai and Phu Tho northern provinces, has become a traditional festival demonstrating and reflecting the patriotic spirit, determination, and strength of the local people. 60 horsemen from 4 districts in the Province and some others from Ha Giang Province will compete at the coming event. Many valuable prizes will be presented to winners at the tournament. In recent years, cultural activities and traditional festivals in these three northern provinces have attracted a large number of domestic and international visitors.   Source: QĐND … [Read more...] about Traditional horse race to be held in Lao Cai

(Cinet)- In the morning, June 6th, the Provincial People’s Committee (PPC) held the seminar on intensifying the management work and creating healthy tourism environment in order that tourism is actually the spearhead for the province’s economic development.   In the seminar, delegates listened to the report on task implementation of the Steering Committee of the province’s tourism in the six-month-early year; task orientation in the six-month-end year; studied and discussed, contributed the ideas to the Instructions Draft of the Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee on “Intensifying the management work and creating healthy tourism environment in Lao Cai province”. The Instructions of PPC’s Chairman emphasized the tasks that the concerned agencies should carry out, for example propagandizing and guiding the economic elements to steadily master guidelines and policies in the domains of tourism and service business, … [Read more...] about Lao Cai: Creating healthy environment for tourism development

(Cinet) – Recently, the Leadership of the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism already had a forum with the representatives of the Lao Cai Department of Culture, Sports to confirm the cooperation contents in tourism. The forum is an initial step of Hanoi to form a new tourist route, connecting tourist destinations among Lao Cai – Hanoi – Quang Ninh- Ninh Binh, paying attention to exploit new tourist routes of each locality. The forum had the participation having the leadership of some state management agencies in tourism of Lao Cai province and Hanoi city, tourist enterprises and reporters of some press agencies in Hanoi city and Lao Cai. At the forum, the deputy director of the Lao Cai Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Dinh Dung introduced briefly Lao Cai tourism. The issue that the representatives at the forum show the attention is that the difficulty when using carriage service by railway. Besides, the tourist guides, restaurant and … [Read more...] about Hanoi – Lao Cai: Enhancing tourism development cooperation

(Cinet) – On the 20th anniversary of re-establishment of Lao Cai province (October 1st, 1991 – October 1st, 2011), on October 1st, 2011. General Museum of Lao Cai province will open exhibition and display of over 400 photos, objects, ect. The exhibited works are art and press photos reflecting the development of every aspect of social life from economy and culture of Lao Cai’s ethnic groups over the last 20 years still being kept at Lao Cai’s Museum until now.Through the exhibition, the public can see the development process and acquired achievements of Lao Cai province (separating from old province Hoang Lien Son) as from the start with numerous difficulties in infrastructure, working place, transport as well as spiritual life, ect.The exhibition also shows first-released valuable photos with a number of archaeological objects recently discovered on the rich and nice land of Lao Cai brimmed over the national characters of 25 ethnic groups with famous … [Read more...] about Lao Cai: Photo exhibition to mark the 20th anniversary of provincial re-establishment

(Cinet) – The Conference discussing measures for developing tourism, building cultural villages associated with community tourism development in Bac Ha was held by People’s Committee of Bac Ha district in co-ordination with Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Lao Cai province. The conference assessed tourism development situation in Bac Ha district; a number of tourists visiting and taking a rest in Bac Ha district that have ceaselessly increased over the last years: In 2007 with over 65.000 tourists and In 2008 with 73.870 ones (the gained turnover estimated 36 billion dongs, rising to 5 billion dongs compared to that in 2007), ect. The district traced tourism destinations and is in the process of improving infrastructure, for instance Bac Ha cultural market, Hoang A Tuong residence building, Bac Ha temple, ect investing in and preparing for building new two-star stay facilities; sanatoriums; private hotels, encouraging to develop garden houses connected with … [Read more...] about Community tourism development in Bac Ha, Lao Cai

Since early this year, Lao Cai province has greeted nearly 800,000 tourist arrivals, a year-on-year increase of 15.5 percent, reported the Lao Cai Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism.Of the total, the number of foreign tourists coming to Lao Cai was over 348,000. Visitors from China (using travel card) still took the lead with 53,100 arrivals, up 78.4 percent against the same period last year, while 447,650 domestic arrivals visited Lao Cai, a year-on-year increase of 6 percent.Over the past nine months, Sa Pa district attracted 388,176 visitors, reaching 75 percent of the year’s plan, while more than 79,900 foreign tourists visited the area. Total tourism revenue of the province reached VND 1.100 billion in the first nine months this year, reaching 122.2 percent of the year’s plan and representing an increase of 69 percent compared to the same period last year. According to Lao Cai Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism, in 2011, Lao Cai will attract 890,000 tourist … [Read more...] about Nearly 800,000 tourists visit Lao Cai in nine months

The northern border province of Lao Cai is populated by 25 ethnic groups that give the province a unique culture. This is partly evinced through the customs of Lao Cai’s ethnic minority groups practised at the coming of springtime. Men cook the first meal of the yearIn Si Ma Cai commune, Lao Cai Province, the Hmong people believe that activities during the first day of a new year will affect the entire year. For this reason, the men – the family’s breadwinner – must cook the first meal of the Lunar New Year as a symbol of the responsibility they will shoulder for their family during the year. For the remainder of the year, cooking meals is generally the task of Hmong women.The Hmong people also refrain from eating green vegetables on the first day of the Lunar New Year because they view it as a sign that they would have to eat green vegetables all year long, and that they would not have enough money.Fetching riverhead water on New Year’s EveDuring the … [Read more...] about Unique customs greet spring in Lao Cai