Boasting beautiful landscapes stretching from the North to the South, and many unique cultural heritages, Vietnam has great potential to promote tourism through cinema.
The Southeast Asian country has been chosen as a filming location for famous films namely The Lover, Indochina, The Quiet American, Pan, and Kong: Skull Islands. Through these films, Vietnam is known to more international tourists.
For example, after the release of the film Indochina in 1992, with some scenes filmed in Ha Long Bay in northern Quang Ninh province, Thai Hoa Palace, Tu Duc Tomb in central Thua Thien-Hue province, and Tam Coc - Bich Dong in northern Ninh Binh province, the number of European tourists, especially French holidaymakers, has increased sharply, accounting for 80% of international visitors to the Tam Coc - Bich Dong tourist area.
The film Kong: Skull Islands in 2017 is also said to help increase the number of international visitors to Trang An and Ha Long.
According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, among the 12 fields of the cultural industry, cinema and tourism are the two key industries. Their connection will be an important driving force for economic development. The cinema-tourism connection is an inevitable trend to effectively develop and promote tourism./.
