The Golden Bridge in Sun World Ba Na Hills in Da Nang City, which is among 100 top destinations in the world selected by the Time magazine. (Photo: baotintuc.vn) “While waiting for the opening of doors tointernational tourists, the tourism sector this year will focus on the domesticmarket,” said VITA Vice Chairman Vu The Binh.
“The forum will gather tourism enterprises andlocalities throughout the nation to connect and discuss ways to developdomestic tourism," he added.
He said some localities have used promotions totry to win customers but in early 2021, a third of domestic travel agencies nolonger wanted to exploit international routes and 90 percent of tourismenterprises stopped or reduced their operation scale.
“The tourism sector has run out of power topromote tourism,” he said.
Binh explained that the forum will offer a chancefor participants to connect services and create new products to lure visitors.
After the forum, the annual Vietnam InternationalTravel Mart will be held between May 5 and 8.
According to the Vietnam National Administration ofTourism, demand for searching information on domestic destinations has sharplyincreased recently, especially as Vietnam basically controlled the COVID-19pandemic. Domestic travel activities have resumed in almost all provinces andcities nationwide.
Though demand for airline information fromdomestic tourists has not increased much recently according to statistics fromthe Destination Insights tool by Google, searches for short trips in nearbydestinations rose markedly in March.
Binh noted the statistics show that tourists nowprefer short trips to near places by their own vehicles and avoid publictransportation due to fear of the virus./.
VNA
