Visit Vietnam Year-Quang Nam 2022 wraps up

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the People’s Committee of central Quang Nam province on December 22 organised a ceremony to wrap up the Visit Vietnam Year-Quang Nam 2022 and launch the National Startup Year 2023.
Visit Vietnam Year-Quang Nam 2022 wraps up ảnh 1A performance at the ceremony to wrap up the Visit Vietnam Year-Quang Nam 2022. (Photo: VNA)

Quang Nam (VNA) ) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the People’s Committee of central Quang Nam province on December 22 organised a ceremony to wrap up the Visit Vietnam Year-Quang Nam 2022 and launch the National Startup Year2023.

Speaking atthe event, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le Tri Thanhsaid that throughout the Visit Vietnam Year 2022, more than 210 events took placeacross Vietnam, of which 73 events were organised in Quang Nam province.

He said thesuccess of the Visit Vietnam Year-Quang Nam 2022 contributed to Vietnam’s tourismachievements this year with 3.5 million foreign visitors and 101.3 milliondomestic tourists. Thecountry’s tourism revenue reached about 495 trillion VND (nearly 21 billionUSD).

Particularly,in 2022, Quang Nam welcomed nearly 4.8 million visitors, 13 timeshigher than the figure last year. The province gained 3.8 trillion VND fromtourism, eight times higher than the amount of 2021. Social incomes from tourism areestimated at 8.9 trillion VND.

DeputyMinister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Doan Van Viet said that the Visit Vietnam Year 2022 helped improve awareness of the role of tourism in socio-economicdevelopment.

Culturaland tourism activities towards "green" and sustainability have beeneffectively promoted while many projects were invested and completed, helping to attract international and domestic tourists, he said.

Visit Vietnam Year-Quang Nam 2022 wraps up ảnh 2The "Visit Vietnam Year" flag is transferred to the south-central province of Binh Thuan that will host the Visit Vietnam Year 2023. (Photo: VNA)

The south-central province of Binh Thuan will host the Visit Vietnam Year 2023 with thetheme “Binh Thuan – Green convergence”.

Meanwhile,Quang Nam province will host the National Startup Year 2023 with the theme“Spreading the startup spirit”.

Theevent aims to create a start-up culture, arousing the entrepreneurship spirit, forming a sustainable national innovation startup ecosystem, andconnecting startups with the One Commune-One Product (OCOP) programme andtypical industrial and rural products./.

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