One five-star hotel and four four-star hotels are put on place, helping increase the number of rooms available for guests to over 4,500, a rise of 28.4 percent over last year.

The international Phu Bai airport will be upgraded along with infrastructural facilities in the imperial city of Hue.

Many tours to and from Hue have been added, including the “Heritage road” on the East-West Corridor, the Bac Hai-Quang Ninh-Chan May and the Macau-Hai Phong-Hue trips.

In the first two months, more than 196,000 tourists, including 124,400 foreigners, visited Hue despite bad weather, representing increases of 23.8 and 43 percent over the same period last year.

Hotel occupancy reached 70 percent and the provincial tourist sector yielded 95 billion VND in revenues.

(Source: VNA)