Lunar New Year (or Tet) is only few weeks away, making people with wanderlust flock to travel agents to book their trips for the holiday. As a result, tourism market has become bustling these days.
China will remain the biggest tourism market for Thailand over the next decade, with arrivals estimated to reach 12 million next year, according to Krungthai Compass Research Centre, a research unit of Krung Thai Bank.
Traditional ways of promoting Vietnam's tourism are becoming obsolete. Amidst the explosion of the fourth industrial revolution, which will be an effective way?
A Saint Petersburg – Vietnam tourism forum took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia on October 21 with the participation of leading travel agencies of the two countries.
Tourism promotion campaigns have shown efficiency as they help Vietnam get one step closer to its set target of hosting 17.5-18 million international tourists and 85 million domestic visitors in 2019.
The number of foreign visitors to Vietnam in August is estimated to rise over 14 percent month-on-month to 1.51 million, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Australia has expanded the number of Work and Holiday Maker visa places available to Vietnamese people, upping the annual intake from 200 to 1,500 a year from September 2, according to the Department of Home Affairs’ media release on August 23.
Tourism promotion will be better as stakeholders sit together and discuss mechanisms as well as how to do well and each shareholder of the ‘game’ will perform well its work," said an official.
New technologies and the rise of Industry 4.0 call for more creative and effective solutions to develop Vietnam's tourism industry, experts said during a conference in Hanoi on August 6.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has revised the tourism marketing promotional plan for 2020 which is focused on foreign tourists with high purchasing power and is aimed at generating 10 percent more revenue.
Hanoi welcomed nearly 14.4 million visitors so far this year, up 9.5 percent over the same period last year, including more than 3.3 million foreign tourists, a year on year rise of 10.6 percent, reported the municipal Department of Tourism.
The number of tourists from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam has grown impressively in the recent years, making the RoK the second biggest tourism market of Vietnam, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
A top leader of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Daegu city and Gyeongsangbuk province attend the International Travel Exhibition in the city in November to foster their partnerships in tourism, culture and people-to-people exchange.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a meeting with Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary-General of Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in Beijing on April 26.
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