The city of heritage. The city of festival

Thua Thien Hue is located in the centre of Vietnam and on principal North-South transport-tation axis with Thuan An sea port, Chan May deep sea port and Phu Bai Airport. Besides, Thua Thien Hue is an important economic development pole of the key economic area of the Centre and the gateway of East – West Economic Corridor connecting Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos with East Sea. This creates favourable conditions for the Province to develop commodity economy, services, tourism and expand cultural and economic exchanges internally and externally.

The center of Thua Thien Hue Province is Hue city, an ancient capital with a lot of historical and cultural monuments and famous landscapes. The complex of Hue monuments with unique architectural masterpieces were recognizied as one of the world cultural heritages by UNESCO. Besides tangible cultural heritages, Thua Thien Hue also has Hue court music, the first intangible cultural heritage of Vietnam, recognized as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO.

Hue cultural heritage marks a decelopment period of the national culture with unique values of architect, art, music, manners and customs, traditional handicraft, cultural festivals, which create unique cultural identity of Vietnam. Hue heritages and other world heritages in the Centre of Vietnam, such as Quang Binh and Quang Nam have formed “the Central heritage road”

Hue is the land that possesses not only special cultural features of the Orient but also a great deal of resources for economic development of the key economic area of Central Vietnam. Hue urban is step by step affirming to be the city of tourism and festival of Vietnam. It is also the province situated on the East-West Economic Corridor connecting Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam with East Sea. Thua Thien Hue has focused on upgrading its infrastructure such as wharf, airport, industrial zone; consolidating local transportation system; reinforcing source of strength to construct institutional system for tourism, culture, health, education so as to create motivation to boost socio-economic development. Thua Thien Hue is gradually affirming its position and continuously striving to be one of the great national centers on culture, health, education and training, tourism, service and international exchanges.

From the Vietnam-France Cultural Festival jointly organized by Hue City and CODEV in 1992, the idea of a festival with a series of cultural activities and impressive and specific festivities was performed right in the beginning year of the new millennium. Success of Festival Hue 2000 created premise for the successes of Festival Hue 2002, 2004 and 2006, step by step affirming the brand name of Festival Hue and capability of organizing cultural activities and festivities of regional and international scale, creating premise to turn Hue into the city of Festival of Vietnam.