The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe consequences on global tourism. As the pandemic has been under control, and many countries have reopened their borders, tourism started to restore.
The Vietnamese tourism sector will embark on the tourism recovery and development scheme under the 2022-2023 socio-economic development programme next year.
After the severe consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to quickly recover the tourism industry is one of the most pressing issues posed in the world in general and in Vietnam in particular. Among the solutions that have been implemented to revive the "smokeless industry", promoting technology platforms to develop smart tourism is considered an effective solution.
Taking tourism as one of the five pillars for socio-economic development, authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu have been issuing several legal documents relating the management of the sector and boosting the exchange of information in this field with regional localities, according to insiders.
Developing tourism and services in protective and special-use forests in parallel with conservation will become a key part of the national economy in the future, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.
The Swiss Sustainable Tourism Programme (SSTP), the first of its kind funded by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) for Viet Nam, has officially kicked off, according to the programme’s management board.
Ha Noi is looking to cooperate closely with member cities of the Council for Promoting Tourism in Asia (CPTA) in tourism development, a municipal official said.
Some 200 businesses and experts discussed developing tourism in the central province of Khanh Hoa at a seminar in Nha Trang city on August 4.
Boasting various tourist attractions like Quan Am Nam Hai festival, Xiem Can pagoda and bird sanctuary, among others, the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu will splash out 1.35 trillion VND (59.4 million USD) on various solutions to local tourism development until 2020 with a vision until 2030.
Quang Binh in central Viet Nam is well-known for natural landscapes, spiritual tourism destinations and historical relic sites.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Tourism jointly launched the Innovative Startups in Tourism Contest on April 14.
According to the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism of An Giang province, An Giang welcomed around 7.3 million tourists and reached the highest ever turnover of VND3,700 billion in 2017.