Leading tourist companies in Ho Chi Minh City are seeking to establish criteria for safe destinations to reboot tourism and prepare for international arrivals in the near future.
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.
The Phu Yen tourism day kicked off on July 5 with a series of programmes promoting local tourism potential.
The northern coastal province of Quang Ninh, which hosts the National Tourism Year 2018, hopes to welcome 12 million visitors this year, including five million foreigners, and earn 22 trillion VND (968 million USD).
Google and Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek have forecast the Vietnamese online tourism services market to be worth 9 billion USD by 2020, and said local companies should work quickly or risk losing the market to international companies.
Many travel agencies, such as Ha Noi Redtour and Saigontourist, have unveiled their promotion programmes designed for the upcoming Vietnam International Travel Mart 2017 (VITM 2017), which is scheduled to take place in Ha Noi between April 6 and 9.
A crowd of youth from travel agencies joined tourist support forces in Ho Chi Minh City at a ceremony in response to an action movement to build a friendly tourism environment in the city.
Representatives of travel agencies from Vietnam and the republic of Korea (RoK) gathered at a gala night in the central city of Da Nang on December 17 to seek cooperation opportunities in the tourism sector.