A number of localities, including Da Nang, Khanh Hoa, and Phu Quoc, are ready to welcome hundreds of tourists from Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) over the next few days.
Vietnamese tourists can experience a trip to the Republic of Korea (RoK) from now to December 6 at the Lotte Center, Hanoi, through a programme hosted by the Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO).
Visitors’ concerns and worries about the safety of Vietnam as a destination amidst the Covid-19 pandemic can be swept away thanks to an application which will be launched on October 10 by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.
Some 70% of tourists intend to resume traveling by the fourth quarter of 2020, while a quarter of travelers are willing to spend over VND2 million per night at hotels on their personal trips and less on business trips, according to a traveler survey conducted in the midst of Vietnam’s second wave of Covid-19 infections by Indochina Capital and Wink Hotels.
The Department of Tourism of Da Nang, in cooperation with Vietnam Airlines, will host the first tourists to visit the central city after the resurgence of COVID-19 in late July.
Hanoi has set itself a target to greet 35-39 million tourists by 2025, including 8-9 million foreigners, earning about 151 trillion VND (6.53 billion USD), under the city’s recently-launched tourism development strategy with a view to 2030.
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is providing visitors with various tourist products and attractive offers in response to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s stimulus programme for domestic tourism.
The northern province of Quang Ninh has seen a boom in domestic tourist arrivals over the last month after the weeks-long social distancing order to curb the spread of COVID-19 was lifted, enabling the province to welcome back visitors.
Tourist accommodation establishments operating in Ho Chi Minh City will be permitted to receive new arrivals, under the condition that they fully comply with the requirements aimed at preventing the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism.
The southern province of Kien Giang estimates to welcome 585,680 in February, a drop of 44.5 percent from the previous month.
The Vietnam Tourism Association (VITA) said on February 25 that it has asked travel firms to stop receiving tourists from countries hit by COVID-19 in the face of new complicated development of the disease in the Republic of Korea and Japan.
Many regions of the country are reporting a sharp rise in the number of tourists.