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Thailand aims to achieve 10 percent growth in tourism revenue, or 3 trillion BHT, through tourism promotion packages to attract domestic and foreign visitors to explore new destinations with longer stays in the country.

Tourism will become a key economic sector of the northern province of Ninh Binh by 2025, local officials said at a tourism conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 8.

More than 840,000 tourists, including 17,000 foreigners, chose the southernmost province of Ca Mau as a destination for their holidays in the first eight months of 2017, rising by 11.2 percent from a year earlier.

Mekong Delta provinces are on the right track to lure more holidaymakers and turn tourism into a spearhead industry after PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc approved a master plan to develop tourism in the region.

Central Highlands localities have welcomed nearly 1.9 million visitors since early this year, a rise of 9 percent year on year, with tourism revenue of over 2.9 trillion VND (127.57 million USD), up 14 percent.

The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa welcomed more than 2.6 million tourists in the first half of 2017, up 22 percent from the same period last year.

The Royal Malaysian Customs Department said the country will begin charging tourism tax from August 1.

Luxury tourism is a focus of the tourism development plan of the northern province of Quang Ninh, heard a recent meeting of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board.

Thailand has been visited by 12 million foreign tourists in the first four months of this year, generating more than 800 billion THB.

The Thai Ministry of Tourism and Sports has revealed that the tourism revenue in the past six months increased by as much as 4.6 percent compared to the same period a year before.

Phu Quoc island district in the southern province of Kien Giang strives to lure over 1.8 million tourists, including 300,000 foreigners, in 2017, showing a year-on-year increase of 25.5 percent and 42.7 percent, respectively.

More than 9 million foreigners visited Vietnam between January and November, up 25.4 percent compared to the same period in 2015, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has revealed.

The revenue growth of Thailand’s tourism industry in the third quarter is 627 billion THB (17.9 billion USD), up 12 percent from the same period last year.

The National Administration of Tourism announced a 25.7 percent increase in the number of tourists, up to more than 7.26 million visitors, compared with the same period last year.

Thailand expects a 10-percent increase in tourism revenue to 597 billion THB in the third quarter of this year.

Revenues from tours to Vietnam will rise by 8-10 percent this year, Russia-based Sputnik News quoted press-secretary of the Russian Tourist Industry Union Irina Turina on June 13.

The central province of Quang Tri has raked in over 1.4 trillion VND (62.2 million USD) from tourism services so far this year, a year-on-year increase of 11 percent.

Foreign arrivals to Vietnam reached more than 6.33 million in the first ten months of this year, a decrease of 4.1 percent year-on-year, announced the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

The central coastal city of Da Nang raked in 10.2 trillion VND (453.86 million USD) from tourism services in the first nine months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 30.2 percent.