The organization Board for the Perfume Pagoda Festival 2014 has implemented several improvements that aims to attract more participants to the festivals including foreign visitors. Around VND11 billion (US$520,000) was invested by the authorities of My Duc District in order to rebuild the current Hoi Xa entrance. In addition to the three existing entrances, the organization board has added a new entrance on Hang Vo street to accommodate more visitors. Around 5,000 boats have also been issued licenses to operate on the Yen Stream. The organization board aanounced that prices for sightseeing tickets (VND50,000 - US$2.2) and boat tickets (VND35,000) will remain the same. However, tickets for a one-way cable car ride will increase from VND120,000 to VND140,000. 14 large-scale restaurants capable of catering up to 60,000 guests were also built.

To ensure food hygiene standards, all restaurants within the vicinity were required to display food in glass cabinets as well as the use of standard counter fridges to store food. Hanging animal meat in front of restaurants were also prohibited. Contrary to the previous, the cable car route will now run directly to the main Huong Tich Pagoda instead of having to stop at the Giai Oan Temple. In addition to the earlier mentioned changes, the old paper tickets are now replaced with swipe cards which works with the newly-installed 19-entry toll booths.

Plans on managing the traffic conditions as well as ensuring the public safety were already laid out and are to be jointly implemented by the policemen and local security staff. It is during such celebrations where there is significant increase on reports of visitors getting scammed as well as a spike on pickpocket incidences. The Huong (Perfume) Pagoda is Vietnam's most famous Buddhist pilgrimage site making the Perfume Pagoda Festival the greatest Buddhist festival in the country’s North. The celebration plays an important role in the spiritual life of Vietnamese people and Vietnamese Buddhists, in particular, thus welcomes hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to pray for a happy and prosperous year ahead.

It is also the longest festival in the country as it is celebrated for three months, starting from the first to the third lunar month of each year. It begins on the sixth day of the lunar January month, which falls on February 5. The festival takes place in Perfume Pagoda in Huong Son Commune, My Duc District, about 70 km from centre of Ha Noi to the south.