From November 29 to December 1, 2024, the Lotus Cuisine and Tourism Festival took place at the Central Park, Nghe An Provincial Cultural Center and Ho Tung Mau walking street, Vinh city. This is a unique event, with many diverse and unique tourism, culinary and product programs.
Opening Ceremony of Nghe An Lotus Cuisine and Tourism Festival on the night of November 29, 2024. (Photo: Internet)
The Nghe An Lotus Cuisine and Tourism Festival 2024 is organized to promote and introduce tourist destinations, honor the good and unique values in the culinary culture and specialties of the localities. Organizations and businesses promote their images and expand their markets, connect, exchange, offer and introduce Ocop products,etc.
The event has the participation of more than 70 booths from regions and localities and the participation of the Vietnam National Tourism Administration, the Tourism Development Support Fund, the Vietnam Culinary Association, the Vietnam Tourism Association, the Nghe An Culinary Association and many large travel agencies and airlines such as Vietravel, Saigontourist, Vietnam Airlines,etc.
Leaders and delegates opened the festival (Photo: Hoai An)
During the 3 days of the festival, from November 29 to December 1, the 2024 Nghe An Lotus Tourism and Cuisine Festival had special programs, including the "Quintessence of Lotus Cuisine" promotion program with many dishes and drinks prepared by famous artisans and chefs across the country.
The festival also has a space to introduce Lotus cuisine and tourism; Introduce commercial products, OCOP, traditional products, specialties of provinces and cities and check-in corners to serve people and tourists when coming to Nghe An.
In addition, in this series of events, there were also activities: Organizing Famtrip delegations to survey and build tourism products; organize the Conference "Developing Nghe An tourism products associated with the national tourism brand in the North Central region tourism linkage",etc.
Carrying out the task of communicating and promoting potential tourist areas and typical products of Quang Tri province; Quang Tri Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Agency participated in the exhibition booth to introduce and provide information on investment promotion, tourism, cuisine and OCOP products of the province at the Nghe An Lotus Cuisine and Tourism Festival.
At the Festival, Quang Tri Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Agency coordinated with enterprises such as Kieu Tran Production Facility, Huyen Thoai Natural Essential Oil Company Limited, Dinh Son Mai Thi Thuy Medicinal Herbs Company Limited to organize exhibition booths with many activities such as: Displaying publications, items; Providing information, images, introducing destinations, information on investment, trade and tourism promotion of the province to visitors participating in the Festival; Commercial enterprises offer OCOP products such as medicinal herbs, natural essential oils, rice paintings, etc., services and exchanges, meets, and seeks partners, etc.

Tourists are interested in and learn about tourism in Quang Tri (Photo: Hoai An)
The event took place on a large scale, with many provinces and cities participating, with dozens of booths promoting and introducing tourism products, cuisine, culture, and products, aiming to further spread and connect tourism products of Nghe An as well as provinces and cities across the country. This is also an opportunity for domestic travel businesses to have more conditions to survey and connect tourism routes to the Central region and Nghe An.