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.
Experts remain optimistic that in the long-term, Vietnam’s economy will be able to bounce back from the current COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent article published by the English language news media publishing group Asia Times.
More than 3,000 tourists, on June 14, flooded the Hoi An Impression Theme Park to enjoy an Ao dai (Vietnam’s traditional long dress) show with the theme of Vietnam’s landscapes.
Most hotels and resorts in Vietnam would resume operations in May with attractive promotions as the country was entering its post-pandemic recovery, said Mauro Gasparotti, Director of Savills Hotels Asia Pacific.
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.
Experts believe the State's issuance of ownership certificates for non-residential real estate projects will solve existing difficulties in Vietnam’s real estate market.
The hospitality sector in Vietnam is facing losses due to the outbreak of a disease caused by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). To cope with this, hotels in the central city of Da Nang have strengthened preventive measures for staff and visitors to ensure safety.
Hotelismo.vn is expected to become a bridge between workers, students, schools and businesses, contributing to creating an ecosystem with a progressive thinking in recruitment environment.
Purchasing power has rising during the first 10 months of the year and total revenue for goods and services hit 4 quadrillion VND (172.5 billion USD), an 11.8 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Vietnamese firms are among the 650 businesses taking part in the 2019 India International Hospitality Expo (IHE 2019), which will be held in Uttah Pradesh state of India from August 7 to 10.
Hanoi University (HANU) and Switzerland’s International Management Institute (IMI) on July 26 introduced a hospitality management training course to mid and high-level managers for Vietnamese travel agencies and hotels.
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.
Many giant housing real-estate developers in Ho Chi Minh City are flocking to the hospitality segment by developing or distributing new projects in tourism areas.
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