via Vietnam Net, 16 November 2022: Vietnam is seeking to ramp up the digitisation of cultural heritage.
Heritage sites are often one of the destinations in tourism programs. Vietnam has a huge heritage treasure with 3,500 national monuments, more than 4,000 national intangible cultural heritages, and 8,000 traditional festivals.
UNESCO has recognized eight heritage sites in Vietnam as world heritage sites, including five cultural, two natural and one mixed heritage. Also, 14 items of intangible heritage have been recognized.
Data about heritage and relics will be digitized to become assets for preservation and promotion, under a roadmap set by MCST.
They will be used for tourism development, i.e., will become cultural goods.
Source: Turning relics, heritage sites into ‘cultural goods’
