Winners of Vietnam Tourism Awards 2019 honoured

Vietnam's top tourism awards have been handed out in Hanoi, honouring organisations, enterprises and individuals.
Winners of Vietnam Tourism Awards 2019 honoured ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam congratulated individuals and organisations honoured with Vietnam Tourism Award 2019 (Photo courtesy of the VNAT)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam'stop tourism awards have been handed out in Hanoi, honouring organisations,enterprises and individuals.

The Vietnam TourismAwards presentation ceremony on July 15 was attended by Deputy PrimeMinister Vu Duc Dam, also head of the State Steering Committee on Tourism, and Ministerof Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien, among others.

Over the past 20 years, theawards have contributed to improving the quality of tourism services, buildingthe national tourism brand, and developing tourism into a spearhead economicsector, said Nguyen Trung Khanh, Direct General of the Vietnam NationalAdministration of Tourism (VNAT).

Tour providers, travelenterprises, hotels, airlines, automobile carriers, restaurants andentertainment and tourist sites were honoured.

In addition, touriststops, golf courses, tourism investors, training establishmentsof human resources in tourism and media agencies were won awards.

The top 10 five-star hotelsincluded Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort, Sofitel Legend MetropoleHanoi, JW Mariotte Hotel Hanoi, Four Seasons, The Nam Hai and Ben Thanh RexHotel.

Top five entertainmenttourist sites honoured were Sun World Ha Long Park (Quang Ninh), Sun World BaNa Hills (Da Nang), Vinpearl Land Phu Quoc (Kien Giang), Dam Sen Cultural Park(HCM City) and Bao Son Paradise Park (Hanoi).

This is the first time the VietnamTourism Awards honoured agencies, with Vietnam Television, VnExpress.net,Vietnam Journey Channel (Radio Voice of Vietnam), Culture newspaper(Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism), and Vietnamplus.vn (Vietnam NewsAgency) scooping gongs.-VNA
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