The number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia sharply fell by 64.11 percent year on year to 470,898 in March, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has hindered holidaymakers from traveling, the Indonesian National Agency of Statistics (BPS) announced on May 4.
Only 28,473 visited Hanoi during the four-day holiday on the occasion of the National Reunification Day and May Day holiday (April 30 – May 3), dropping nearly 92 percent compared to the same period last year due to impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
The resort city of Da Lat, a popular destination in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong, greeted 58,000 tourists during the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30) and International Labour Day (May 1).
The flow of tourists to the central city of Da Nang during this year’s National Reunification (April 30) and International Workers’ Day (May 1) holidays reached just 5,800, a year-on-year drop of up to 98.5 percent.
Vietnamese landlords should consider shifting from their traditional fixed-rent model to base rents and revenue sharing like in many other countries to spread the risk, experts have suggested.
Vietnamese airports served 188,000 passengers in April, a decline of a record 98 percent year-on-year, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has reported.
The central city of Da Nang has piloted the three first community-based tourism sites in suburban Hoa Vang district as rural ethnic and farm experience attractions in the Master Plan 2025-2030.
Vietnam is forecast to witness a 80-pecent drop in the number of foreign tourists visiting the country in 2020 if the COVID-19 pandemic is not controlled by the end of the year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Experts and businesses in Ho Chi Minh City’s real estate sector have mapped out recovery scenarios after the COVID-19 pandemic passes, with the local property market having experienced a marked slowdown.
Hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam’s tourism sector is likely to be one of the first to recover strongly after the pandemic is brought under control, according to an expert from Savills Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City’s daily tax revenues have fallen by 31 percent in the first quarter of this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has said.
Real estate business and housing construction in Ho Chi Minh City have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, with significant decreases recorded in supply and demand, according to market watchers.
The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has announced it will reduce airline service fees for six months from March to August to support airlines suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laos has not recorded any case testing positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, Lao Foreign Minister Saleumsay Kommasith said at a press conference on March 19 in Vientiane.
Despite the developments of COVID-19, the number of tourists to the south central province of Phu Yen continues to increase. Apart from the attraction of the land, visitors feel secure when the provincial tourism sector has been on the alert for preventing the disease.
As Vietnam has been removed from the global list of potential destinations spreading COVID-19, domestic tourism is expected to witness growth after implementation of several stimulus programmes and sales promotions.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), first reported in China, has hit Indonesia’s tourism sector as the country records slower growth in tourist arrivals following bans applied to visitors from China.
Not only international visitors but domestic holidaymakers are using services of foreign online travel platforms. The fact forces some Vietnamese enterprises to "change blood."
Indonesia will cut prices of airline tickets by 40 to 50 percent in a move to encourage tourism development amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.