Scene at the Vietnam tourism roadshow in Singapore (Photo: VNA) Singapore (VNA) – Tourism packages combining meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) hold bigpotential for cooperation between Vietnamese and Singaporean travel agencies,as heard at a roadshow event in Singapore on December 9.
Organised by the VietnamNational Administration of Tourism (VNAT), the event gathered 100 travelcompanies from both countries.
The roadshow featuredinformation on Vietnam’s tourism infrastructure, products and support policies,particularly those related to the development of MICE, sport and cruise tours. Atthe event, VNAT representatives cleared up questions asked by Singaporean touroperators.
Ha Van Sieu, deputy headof the VNAT, said target tourists of Vietnam are not only Singaporeans but alsocitizens of other countries visiting and living in Singapore, which he called acosmopolitan island.
Operating MICE tours is thestrength of Singapore, which will be enhanced further through cooperation withVietnam, Sieu noted.
Pham Tien Dung, head ofthe Golden Tour from Vietnam, said Singaporean visitors require professionalservices, and many local companies are interest in cultural–rich destinationsin northern Vietnam.
Singapore is the last stopof the VNAT roadshow that has also travelled through Indonesia and Malaysia sinceDecember 5.
In 2015, Vietnam welcomedover 500,000 tourists from the three ASEAN countries. Malaysia took the leadwith 230,000 arrivals of the total.
In the first ten months of2016, the number of Singaporeans travelling to Vietnam jumped 8.5 percentcompared to the same period last year.-VNA
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