Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien (Photo: VNA) Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien said Vietnam aims to catch up with top tourism countries in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia by expanding and diversifying promotion activities in key markets and working with airliners to increase the number of flights to major attractions such as Phu Quoc island, Da Nang city, and Hue city. Minister Thien said the sector will launch an action plan to implement Vietnam’s Cultural Diplomacy Strategy toward 2020 with a vision to 2030.
At a conference on the tourism sector held in Hanoi on December 27, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh stressed that the sector in 2008 and the following years will focus on advertisement and market expansion. Mr Tuan Anh said the sector will pay attention to developing tourist products as well as personnel training to meet customers’ requirements. It will also gather all resources available to improve entertainment facilities, particularly for community-based tourism development toward poverty reduction. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism announced an impressive record of 4.2 million foreign visitors in 2007, an increase of…... [read more]
Vietnam eyes 20 million foreign visitors by 2020 Duc Tam HCMC – Vietnam’s tourism sector targets around 20 million international tourist arrivals by 2020, double the current number, according to a master plan designed to turn the sector into a economic spearhead of the nation. The local tourism sector is expected to attain revenue of US$35 billion, contribute 11-12% to the nation’s gross domestic product, and create four million jobs in the next four years, said Ngo Hoai Chung, deputy head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism at the Food and Hotel Vietnam 2017 fair in HCMC on April…... [read more]
The sectors also aims to serve 78 million domestic visitors, earning total revenue of VNĐ620 trillion (US$27.31 billion).Accordingly, tourism promotion in both international and domestic markets will be strengthened next year. Besides, the tourism sector will also focus on turning Vietnam into a safe and friendly destination while creating clear changes in improving the quality of services and tourism.The General Statistics Office reported that Vietnam received a record high of 12.9 million foreign visitors in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 29.1 per cent.Of the total, 10.9 million tourists arrived by plane while 1.8 million people came to Vietnam on land.…... [read more]
Viet Nam targets to welcome 5 million foreign visitors in 2008, or a year-on-year increase of 19 percent. At a conference on the tourism sector's 2008 tasks held in Ha Noi on December 27, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh stressed that the sector in 2008 and following years will focus on advertisement and market expansion. According to him, the sector should pay attention to developing tourist products as well as personnel training to meet the customers' requirements. It should also mobilise all resources to develop entertainment facilities, particularly for community-based tourism, with an aim to reduce…... [read more]
Indonesia has set an ambitious target to attract 12 million foreign visitors in 2016, mostly from Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. According to Hari Utoro Dradjat, expert from the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism, the country is set to welcome 1.7 million visitors from China in 2016 and two million in 2019. The announcement came at a ceremony to welcome about 400 Chinese holiday-makers to the Lunar New Year Festival in Bali island -a popular tourist destination in Indonesia. The island greeted over 1,000 vacationers from China during Lunar New Year holiday season. Last year, 1.14 million Chinese people travelled…... [read more]
