The overall objectives to 2020 are to develop tourism to be a key economic industry with high professionalism, modern and fairly synchronously-developed tourist infrastructure; high quality, competitive and diversified tourist products imprinted with unique traditional cultural characteristics.

The specific objectives are to develop 7 tourism zones with specific tourism products; 46 national tourist areas; 41 national tourist spots; 12 tourist cities and other key tourist spots.

The main directions are about developing tourism markets; developing both domestic and international tourism, inbound and outbound tourism; focusing on tourists whose purpose of trip is travel and leisure with  long stay and high expenditure; developing tourism products; organizing tourism zones; boosting investment for tourism development; tourism business management.

Regarding solutions, the plan focuses on mechanisms, policies; mobilization of tourism investment; promotion and advertisement; organization and management of the plan; application of science and technology; international cooperation; resources and tourism environment protection and solutions to cope with impact of climate change....

Hong Thanh