Tourism leaders of Vietnam and China signed an agreement in Hanoi on August 9 to tighten cooperation in a large swath of areas from training and joint marketing to development of new tourism products, an official said.
The agreement, signed between Vietnam’s Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and head of China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), is aimed at increasing the number of tourists visiting each other’s country to three million a year, the source said.
Pham Quang Hung, head of the International Cooperation Division under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, told the Daily that tourism entrepreneurs of the two sides will increase meetings to exchange information and policies relating to their business.
CNTA will teach the Chinese language for employees of Vietnam’s hotels and restaurants along with organizing seminars to show the needs of Chinese travelers to Vietnamese travel firms.
For marketing activities, the two sides will join hands to promote tourism images on national televisions, and invite media to come and organize food festivals. CNTA will help Vietnam’s tourism to organize road shows in Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fuchien of China in next month.
For the development of tourism products, the two administrations will cooperate to build tourist routes through the two countries to woo both Chinese, Vietnamese travelers and visitors from third countries.
Hung said that the two sides shared the view in developing sea tourism, and agreed to make survey trips for developing products and the infrastructure system for this kind of tourism.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and China National Tourism Administration have also agreed to join hands in tapping the tourism potential of the Ban Gioc – De Tian fall in the borderline between the two countries as soon as possible.
Hung said that the agreement was inked on the working and promotion trip conducted by China’s tourism in the country.
China National Tourism Administration on Monday organized a road show in the capital city of Hanoi to promote its tourism image to Vietnamese guests. The event will be repeated in HCMC on August 11.
China is the biggest market of Vietnam’s inbound tourism with nearly 512,000 arrivals reported in the seven months of this year, up 95.4% year-on-year. The figure is expected to rise to one million this year.