Vietnam is among the top three most favorite tourist destinations for Korean visitors in Asia, according to statistics from KB Kookmin Card of the Republic of Korea (RoK).
The Get on Hanoi 2023 programme themed “Hanoi – Den de yeu” (Hanoi – come to love) took place in pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem Lake at the heart of Hanoi on March 11 evening, attracting crowds of visitors.
The tourism sector of the northern port city of Hai Phong will focus on developing sports and yacht tourism towards attracting more holiday-makers with high spending power, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
The German travel news site reisereporter.de has listed Vietnam among the ten most charming destinations for German holiday-makers to explore and escape the upcoming winter in Europe.
The German travel news site reisereporter.de has listed Vietnam among the ten most charming destinations for German holiday-makers to explore and escape the upcoming winter in Europe.
The number of arrivals to tourist sites in the central city of Da Nang during the National Day holidays from September 1 to 4 is projected to grow 38% from the figure in 2019.
Ho Chi Minh City welcomed nearly 130 tourists from the US on April 8 under a tour organised by Citslinc International Inc in collaboration with Asia Life and Beauty Travel and Tour Services Co., Ltd.
An estimated 18 million international tourists visited Vietnam in 2019, but their spending in the country remained low, which is a challenge to the tourism sector. Night-time services and products could be the key answer to the issue.
Vietnam welcomed 49,200 foreign tourists in the first two months of 2022, representing a year-on-year surge of 71.7 percent, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on February 28.
Experts have emphasised the urgent need to immediately restore the visa-free policy, which has been suspended since 2020, in order to lure more international holiday-makers when the country pilot welcoming foreign tourists back.
The number of foreign holiday-makers to Vietnam is predicted to increase sharply in the coming time, close to the figure recorded in the pre-COVID-19 period thanks to the resumption of regular international flights and tourism activities.
The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue has announced that it will re-open a number of tourist sites such as the Hue Imperial Citadel (Dai Noi), and Minh Mang, Tu Duc and Khai Dinh mausoleums to visitors on October 1.
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is preparing for a pilot plan on welcoming international tourists with vaccine passports to its Phu Quoc resort island for six months from October in a bid to revive its tourism industry.
Hanoi is striving for over 15 million domestic tourists in 2021, equal to 70 percent of that in 2019 and but two times higher than that in 2020, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
Domestic holiday-makers coming to the capital city in May numbered 115,000, a steep decrease of 55.3 percent year-on-year due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to the Hanoi Department of Tourism.
Over 1.1 million domestic holiday-makers visited the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh in November 2020, doubling the figure reported in the previous month.
Vietnamese authorities are working to resume international flights in an attempt to help the aviation industry get a good recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has clobbered the sector from the outset of the year.
The Department of Tourism of the south-central province of Binh Dinh on May 22 held a tourism promotion programme, aiming to attract more domestic visitors after social distancing measures were eased.
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