The festival creates opportunities for artisans, craft villages, units and businesses producing and souvenir products, tourism services... to meet, exchange, introduce products, and promote brands to domestic and international tourists, according to announcement from Ha Noi Department of Tourism.

Space for displaying craft village products at the Ha Noi Tourism Gift Festival 2022 (Photo: toquoc.vn)

As per plan, there will be about 80 introduction, exhibition and promotion spaces during the 3 days of the Festival such as: The exhibition space introducing elite and quality products of Ha Noi craft villages; Space for displaying and introducing products of tourism service businesses, tour voucher gift products at promotional prices; The craft village experience space is an area for performing, promoting and introducing craft village products combined with tourism... Besides, visitors can experience making products such as bamboo dragonflies, making gifts, making flower art, making crafts from recycled items…

Miniature scene at Ha Noi Tourism Gift Festival 2022 (Photo: toquoc.vn)

A number of miniature landscape spaces will be built by the Organising Board according to themes such as: Phu Vinh rattan and bamboo village, Chang Son fan village, Van Phuc silk village, Thach Xa bamboo dragonfly village, Bat Trang pottery village. The small landscape space for taking photos will be the check-in area of the Festival, and at the same time a space to experience folk games such as mandarin square capturing, walking on stilts, cheraw dance, and going on a kieu bridge.

The exhibition space displays beautiful photos of Ha Noi tourism with works of art promoting Ha Noi tourism with the content "Tourist smiles" and introduces the winning works in the Ha Noi Tourism Photo Contest 2022.

Ha Noi beautiful photo exhibition at Ha Noi Tourism Gift Festival 2022 (Photo: toquoc.vn)

The culinary introduction space will introduce restaurants with "1 Michelin star", restaurants on the Michelin selection list announced in June 2023. This is an opportunity to widely promote Ha Noi cuisine to residents and tourists.

Cultural activities in this year's Festival will include: Photo Marathon "24h - Ha Noi come to Love" capturing beautiful moments during the Festival; Performing ancient folk dances; Cyclo parade gives balloons to tourists; Festival drum performance; Flash mob dance performance and street activities for young people.

The opening ceremony will take place on the evening of 3rd November at the Pedestrian Space area of Tran Nhan Tong Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Ha Noi.

Tourism Information Technology Center