Apart from preparations for the pilot vaccine passport programme, the hospitality industry has worked to ensure safety for tourists in line with instructions of the Ministry of Health.
Seventy-one percent of enterprises in the hospitality industry responding to a recent survey said their revenue in the first quarter of 2020 fell more than 30 percent against the same period last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tourist arrivals in Hanoi in the first quarter are estimated at 3.85 million, down 47.2 percent annually, according to the Hanoi Department of Tourism.
The 2019 Food & Hotel Vietnam, the country’s leading international food and hospitality trade exhibition, opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on April 24.
The Cambodian Ministry of Tourism said it will take strong measures to increase the share of local products used by local firms, particularly those in the hospitality industry.
Vietnam’s strong economic growth and rapid increase in per capita income has driven demand for a better quality of life, thus the development of the interiors market, including for mattresses, according to experts.
The 2019 Food & Hotel Vietnam, the country’s leading international food and hospitality trade exhibition, will offer businesses the opportunity to network and keep abreast of the latest industry culinary and hospitality trends and product innovations.
Vietnamese enterprises operating in the fields of food and hospitality are attending the Food & Hotel Asia (FHA) 2018 which is taking place in Singapore from April 24-27.
Average hotel occupancy rate in Ho Chi Minh City reached 74 percent in the first quarter, increasing by 6 percentage points from the same period last year.
The Hotel and Tourism Management Institute Switzerland (HTMi) will send teachers and transfer education programmes to the Da Nang-based Dong A University as part of their recent cooperation deal.
Alternaty, a leading real estate consulting firm in Indochina, merged into Savills Vietnam, the largest property company in Vietnam, under a deal inked in Ho Chi Minh City on March 28.
The central province of Binh Thuan has identified sea sports and leisure as pillars in the development strategy of its hospitality industry through 2020 with a vision to 2030.
Vietnam’s tourism sector has been preparing its human resources in the event of the formation of the ASEAN Community that allows the free flow of labourers in the hospitality industry.