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Product diversity important to luring international tourists: PM

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 21 asked ministries, agencies, localities and businesses to take into consideration the diversity of the products, markets and supply chains while seeking ways to boost the tourism sector.
Product diversity important to luring international tourists: PM ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the conference. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham MinhChinh on December 21 asked ministries, agencies, localities and businesses to take into consideration the diversity of the products, markets and supply chainswhile seeking ways to boost the tourism sector.

Presiding over a hybrid conference in Hanoi that is looking into how to attract more international tourists to Vietnam, the leader stressedthe significance of the communications work, innovation, digital transformationand green transition in tourism development.

He urged ministries, agencies, localities andbusinesses and experts to propose solutions to remove obstacles and set outtasks and solutions to realise the effort on the basis oftraditional culture, creating tourism breakthroughs next year.
Product diversity important to luring international tourists: PM ảnh 2At the hybrid conference (Photo: VNA)
Nearly 597,000 foreigners visited Vietnam inNovember, up 23.2% month-on-month, bringing their total number in the first 11 months of this year to 2.95 million,according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The country earned some 536.3 trillion VND (21.6billion USD) from accommodation and catering services, up 56.5% year-on-year,while revenue in the travel and tourism industry was estimated at 22.9 trillionVND, a 4.1-fold increase compared to that of the same period last year./.
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