Despite improvement in 2022, occupancy and room rates in Ho Chi Minh City have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, according to real estate service provider Savills Vietnam.
Tens of thousands of visitors flocked to the ancient riverbank city of Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam during the New Year holiday ((December 31, 2022 - January 2, 2023), opening a promising new year for the locality’s tourism sector.
Nova Hospitality, a member of Nova Service, has been officially launched and it has signed agreements with two of the world's leading hotel management companies, Accor and Marriott International.
Hospitality providers in Hanoi’s Old Quarter have been gradually recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 15, most of them have so far been brought back to life.
H20 Hospitality Ltd., a tech-based hospitality management startup, on September 21 announced that it has partnered with cloud service management company Bespin Global Co. in operating digital solutions for smart city projects in Vietnam.
The global hotel and resort sector is recovering well from the COVID-19 pandemic with improvements on occupancy and room rates, and Vietnam is no exception, said Mauro Gasparotti, director of Savills Hotels Asia Pacific.
The resumption of international flights and the borders reopening in March will not only benefit Vietnam’s hospitality sector but also drive demand for serviced apartments, according to Savills Vietnam.
To prepare for tourism reopening from January 1 next year, Laos is piloting a health and hygiene programme called LaoSafe in the tourism and hospitality sector in Vientiane capital.
The northern province of Quang Ninh allowed hospitality establishments to welcome visitors from other localities classified as blue and yellow zones from November 1, on the condition that they must meet pandemic prevention and control requirements.
After a bad year for business in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down travel around the world, Vietnam's tourism revenue fell even further this year. Plans were discussed by experts at a forum to access the current state of the hospitality market and map out a way towards a post-COVID-19 recovery.
Several major components of NovaWorld Phan Thiet entertainment and tourism complex, including the 36-hole PGA golf course cluster, will be put into operation at the end of this year, according to developer Novaland Group.
Vinpearl, a major hospitality-recreation developer and operator in Vietnam, has successfully issued a 425-million-USD Exchangeable Sustainable Bond (ESB), exchangeable into shares of its parent company Vingroup.
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on many people, including foreign workers stuck in Vietnam. With a humanitarian and hospitable tradition and a spirit of “leaving no one behind” among Vietnamese people, many localities around the country have provided support to and shared the difficulties with foreigners.
As Ho Chi Minh City grapples with the COVID-19 outbreak, hotels have actively adapted to the situation by offering paid quarantine services to maintain their operation.
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.
Being stuck in Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of foreign tourists have received assistance from the local government and tourism community to overcome difficulties.
US business magazine Forbes has recently published an article highlighting the Vietnamese hospitality sector’s creativity to survive the COVID-19 blow.
January started on a positive note, with city hotels seeing increased MICE and event bookings, while in some resorts corporate bookings started to return, according to Savills Vietnam.
Cityland Education (CE) and Switzerland’s famous hospitality management school École hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) recently inked a cooperation agreement at a ceremony which saw the attendance of Vietnamese Ambassador to Switzerland Le Linh Lan.
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