A ceremony will be organised on July 8 in Ha Noi to present the “Viet Nam Tourism Award 2017” to businesses with the best performances in 2016.
Scene at the Viet Nam Tourism Award 2016
The most prestigious annual award of the sector, first held in 1999, is set to take stage right after a meeting in celebration of Viet Nam Tourism Day (July 9).
The schedule was announced at a press conference by the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in Ha Noi on July 4, which gave information on the sector’s performance in 2017’s first half and future plans.
According to VNAT office chief Vu Quoc Tri, the number of foreign tourists to Viet Nam in the first six months of 2017 was higher than in the same period last year, with China and the Republic of Korea contributing the highest number of visitors to the country.
The domestic market recorded the most significant growth on the April 40-May 1 holiday and in early summer, he added.
Viet Nam was ranked 67th among 136 economies in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s recently released Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) 2017, going up eight places compared to the ranking in 2015.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Tourism Department took the occasion to introduce the 13th International Travel Expo HCM City, an annual international tourism fair among five Mekong basin countries - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam.
It is scheduled to run from July 7 to 9 and is expected to see the number of international participants increase by 20 percent compared to last year.