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Online travel agency Booking.com recently announced the top 5 source markets for Vietnam’s tourism sector this winter.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has forecast that Vietnam will post Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 6% in 2024. It has also lowered its growth forecast for Vietnam this year to 5.2% from the previous 5.8%.

Vietnam has improved its global ranking in English proficiency, ranking 58th out of 113 non-native English-speaking countries, up 2 places compared to 2022, according to the EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) from Education First (EF).

Welcoming 2.6 million visitors annually, Ha Long Bay in Vietnam was ranked fourth among the 10 most-visited natural wonders in the world in a survey published in December by the US-based magazine The Travel.

Four Vietnamese dishes have been selected among the “100 Best Rated Dishes With Pork”, by the international food magazine Taste Atlas.

Vietnam’s central city of Hue has been voted one of the must-visit destinations in 2024 by US travel magazine Travel+Leisure.

The Asian Records Organisation in early December 2023 officially established 10 new Asian Records for Vietnamese cuisine and specialties in conformity with the Asian culinary and specialty record criteria.

The relationship between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan has grown comprehensively and deeply across all fields over the past 50 years, from politics, security, economy, and investment to culture, society, and development cooperation.

Golf tourism is high potential tourism product, making an important contribution to attracting international visitors to Vietnam in general and Hanoi city in particular.

In the first 11 months of 2023, seven commodities of Vietnam posted export value of over 10 billion USD, accounting for over 60% of the country's total export turnover.

Vietnam’s ST25 fragrant rice variety has won the World’s Best Rice 2023 award for the second time.

Vietnam had posted a trade surplus of 24.44 billion USD as of November 15, according to data released by the General Statistics Office.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President of China Xi Jinping and his spouse pay a State visit to Vietnam. The visit on December 12-13 is made at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and his spouse, and President Vo Van Thuong and his spouse.

From January to November 2023, the number of tourists arriving in Vietnam increased nearly three times compared to the same period in 2022. In November alone, this number peaked at 1.23 million international visitors.