Second Mekong Tourism Festival to Be Held in Late February

The second Mekong Tourism Festival is scheduled for February 23-26 in southern An Giang province to promote the rich tourism potential of the Mekong Delta region.

 

The festival will take place mainly in the town Chau Doc and the provincial capital of Long Xuyen.

 

The program will include a trade and tourism fair, a rural food festival, a tour guide competition and a seminar on developing tourism in the Mekong River region. All will take place in Long Xuyen, which lies some 50km southeast of the Vietnamese/Cambodian border.

 

Chau Doc will be the venue for the art and cultural festival with the participation of art troupes from the Kinh (Viet), Hoa (Chinese), Cham, and Khmer communities in the Mekong Delta. In addition, fashions show will feature Tan Chau silk, a well-known traditional handicraft indigenous to the An Giang Province.

 

The Mekong Tourism Festival is set to be held on a rotating basis in the 13 Mekong Delta provinces every two years.

 

The first event was held on October 2-6, 2003 in Can Tho province.