Hanoi (VNA), Dec. 10 -- The National Tourism Year 2020 will be launched in the northern province of Ninh Binh on February 20, 2020, heard a press conference in Hanoi on December 10.

The closing ceremony is scheduled for December 2020.

According to the organising board, the year will take the theme "Hoa Lu - ancient capital of a thousand years" with 27 activities, including Bai Dinh pagoda festival that will open on January 30, Hoa Lu festival from April 1-3, and Trang An festival from April 10 to the late May 2020.

The Miss Capital ASEAN 2020 final round, the "Yellow Tam Coc - Trang An" tourism week, an international workshop on "xam" singing, a music exchange between provinces having world heritages and twinning localities at home and...