(Cinet)- Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MOCST) organized a conference in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang city to review the organisation and management of festivals in 2012 and set directions for 2013. Festivals across the country in 2012 were well organised and improved a quality of tourism services.The delegates pointed out a few shortcomings in festival management, including traffic congestion, gambling and superstitious activities. They also discussed some measures to organise festivals in 2013 in a sound and economical manner; including realising Party and State guidance documents on festivals, abolishing superstitions, planning detailed plan on ensuring tourists’ safety and separating traffic lanes for ease traffic jams and accidents during the festive days. According to Pham Van Thuy, director of the Popular Culture Department at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, some comments at an online ministry conference summarised a festival management in 2012 and the direction to be taken with large-scale cultural events this year. He suggested that mismanagement and deliberate wrongdoing could erode the values and meaning of traditional festivals. Thuy cited the example of quan ho singers performing love duets and then holding out their hats asking for tips from tourists at Lim Festival in the northern province of Bac Ninh as an occasion when a bad impression was made on those attending. He also pointed to visitors across the country burning too much votive offerings at temples, polluting the environment and wasting money. According to the MoCST statistics, over 7,000 traditional celebrations…
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