Through the first 3 days of the holidays of April 30 and May 1 this year (April 29 to May 1), Hue welcomed about 30,000 visitor arrivals. Hue tourism has been really bustling in recent days.

On the afternoon of April 18, the Department of Tourism, in cooperation with the Hue Monuments Conservation Center, welcomed the MICE tourist group to Hue managed by Vietravel at the yard in front of Ngo Mon gate - Hue Imperial Citadel.

After a frozen period of tourism under the impact of the pandemic, the exhibition spaces and art spaces prepare to welcome visitors back when tourism rebounds bit by bit.

On the afternoon of April 4, the Thailand famtrip delegation came to Hue to visit and survey tourist attractions, proceeding to build new tours to bring guests to the Ancient Capital in the coming time.

Tet (Lunar New Year) of Tiger 2022 is the second Tet that the spring sport activities cannot be organized because of COVID-19. And Hue people will probably recall the two big and typical folk sport activities to enjoy Tet, welcome spring.

On the morning of February 9, the Huyen Tran Temple Festival – the Year of Tiger 2022, was kicked off at Huyen Tran Cultural Center (Ngu Phong Mountain, An Tay Ward, Hue City) by the Provincial Department of Culture and Sports. This is an activity to welcome the Year of Tiger, and the first large-scale Festival in the series of activities and events of the “Four Seasons of Festivals” in 2022.

On the first days of the new year, tourists destinations, hotels, and resorts, etc., all recorded a significant number of tourists coming for visiting and entertaining.

At the Thai Family Ancestral House, Prof. Dr. Thai Kim Lan’s family had prepared banh chung, banh tet, phap lam, and phu the cakes from the previous day. After finding a satisfactory bamboo pole, the homeowner would perform a ceremony to worship the ancestors and then arrange incense table, candle, betel nut, wine, etc. in front of the yard to begin the ritual. Red couplets would also be prepared in advance and written in a conventional calligraphy style. In a dignified and joyful atmosphere to welcome the new year, the bamboo pole will be erected with the joyful jingle of the bell hanging from the top of the bamboo pole. The bamboo pole will celebrate Tet with the family and neighborhood until it is lowered on the 7th of January (Lunar Calendar) when everyone goes back to work in the new year.

A newspaper exhibition for Spring 2022, from January 25th to February 10th at the Provincial General Library, would be an activity to welcome the traditional Tet holiday and celebrate the 92nd founding anniversary of the Communist Party.

Among the activities to welcome the 2022 Lunar New Year, on the morning of January 25 (23rd December, Lunar calendar), Hue Monuments Conservation Center held the bamboo pole erection ceremony (Thuong Tieu) in Trieu To Mieu and Hien Lam Cac - The Mieu in the Citadel.