The fact that Vietnam received a record five million foreign tourists and 28 million domestic visitors, earning VND96 trillion, has been selected as one of the top ten tourism achievements in 2010.
The top ten list was announced by Nguyen Manh Cuong, Deputy Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) at a press briefing on January 18. The election is an annual activity carried out by VNAT’s Tourism Newspaper.
Among the events were: a promotion programme named “Vietnam - your destinationâ€, the 50th anniversary of the birth of the tourism sector (1960-2010); National Tourism Year 2010 held in Hanoi and the programme “Strategy for Vietnam’s tourism development by 2020, with a vision for 2030â€, projects to develop tourism in the 2011-2020 period and the campaign to promote Vietnam’s tourism in China, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Western Europe.
Other outstanding highlights include the launch of a tourism television channel; a national seminar on the development of Vietnam’s tourism in the context of proactive international integration, the international seminar titled “Tourism - important momentum for socio-economic developmentâ€, a tour to plant a flag on Fansipan peak on the occasion of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long Hanoi and the international tourism exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.