Visiting Hue on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Christina Volkmann from the US and Graham Brigge from Australia said that Hue is very beautiful and local people are friendly and hospitable.

According to the Hue Relics Preservation Centre, Thua Thien-Hue province plans to welcome between 2-2.5 million visitors to see the Hue relics this year.

The province, which will host the 2012 National Tourism Year, also aims to expand cooperation with partners from the Republic of Korea, Japan, Germany, the US and Poland, to recover and preserve projects in the relics sites.

The centre said it is researching the royal gastronomy under the Nguyen dynasty and the system of poetry and literature system of Hue relics, in order to submit them for recognition as world heritages in the 2013-2014 period.