Hanoi tourism enjoys successful year despite difficulties

Despite impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of tourists to Hanoi has so far surpassed the target for the whole year, thanks to the city’s efforts to provide attractive and high quality tourism products.

In late November, Hanoi is full of visitors who enjoy Da quy (daisy) flower season in Ba Vi National Park, and tours in Thang Long Imperial Citadel or Hoa Lo Prison. This manifests the strong tourism recovery and development of the capital city - Asia’s Leading City Break Destination 2022 by World Travel Awards (WTA).

In May, the US travel website TripAdvisor placed Hanoi in the 13th position in the 25 most popular destinations in Asia in 2022. It also included the city in the list of 25 best places for food lovers in 2022.

This year, Hanoi aims to welcome 7-8 million domestic tourists and 1.2-2 million foreigners. But so far the city has received 17.02 million visitors, over 5 times higher than that in the same period last year, including 1.27 million foreigners.

To continue its recovery trend, the city has planned a number of activities in the rest of the year with a focus on luring more foreign tourists./.

VNA