Hoi An welcome 2014 New Year with street festival – The warm winter, the love spring

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The festival, to go on from 8pm on Dec 31 to 1am Jan 1, 2014, will feature instrument and Flamenco performances, fashion shows, street make-up, a lucky draw with prizes, and a countdown to midnight on Le Loi and Nguyen Thai Hoc streets.

A charity program titled “The warm winter, the love spring” will take place at An Hoi garden to raise funds for local needy people. A stunning firecracker show will also be put on.

The Quang Nam tourism sector will welcome the 1.6 millionth foreign tourist on the main stage at the intersection of Le Loi and Nguyen Thai Hoc.
An event will also be scheduled on Chua Cau at 8am on Jan 1, 2014 to welcome and present gifts to the first person to visit the old town in the new year.

Last month, Hoi An city was chosen for the 2013 Asian Townscape Award honoring world cities which boast outstanding landscape architecture. The award was collectively given by the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Habitat Society, the Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center, and the Asian Townscape Design Society.

According to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, the number of tourists to the province totaled over 2.6 million during the first nine months of 2013, up 19.32% compared to the same period in 2012.

In 1999, the ancient town of Hoi An was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO for being a well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port in the 15th to 19th centuries and for having buildings with a unique blend of local and foreign influences.

Since then, the city has been voted one of the top tourist destinations in the world by several tourism magazines. It was voted the world’s best tourism city by UK tourism magazine Wanderlust in Jan 2013. The city also ranked second in the Top 10 Asian Cities list by prestigious American tourism magazine Condé Nast Traveler in Oct 2013.