Foreign visitors at Phu Quoc night market (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam welcomed 12.9million foreign visitors in the first nine months of 2019, a year-on-year riseof 10.8 percent, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
In September alone, the number of foreign holidaymakers toVietnam was estimated at 1.56 million.
Theoffice said the number of foreign arrivals from Asian nations saw the highestincrease of 12.5 percent, followed by those from Africa, America and Europe withrespective rises of 10.8 percent, 6.8 percent and 5.3 percent.
Vietnam’s tourism sector aims to receive 17.5 – 18 million foreign tourists in2019 and serve 85 million domestic visitors, raking in total revenue of 700trillion VND (30.17 billion USD).
TheVietnam National Administration of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture,Sports and Tourism and the Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy underthe Ministry of Industry and Trade have signed a cooperation agreement on applyingadvanced technologies and e-commerce to support the tourism sector’s development.
At present, online platforms for travel booking such as Airbnb, Agoda, Booking arestrongly developed.
The cooperation between the two agencies is expected to improve thecompetitiveness of domestic e-commerce trading floors, helping to better ensureinterests of visitors when they use tourism services provided on online platforms./.
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