Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2023: Vibrant Crossroads
The annual gathering brings together tourist destinations all over Vietnam in an effort to revive the sector, which is vital to the nation’s economy.
The annual gathering brings together tourist destinations all over Vietnam in an effort to revive the sector, which is vital to the nation’s economy.
Tourist arrivals to Hanoi reached more than 3.7 million visitors in the January-February period, 2.8 times more than in the same period last year.
The city also targets training and enhancing vocational skills for at least 80% of workers in service establishments and tourist craft villages.
The Hanoi Tourism Festival 2023 will promote the cultural values of heritage sites and foster cooperation between Hanoi and other localities in Vietnam and abroad.
Some 284,000 Vietnamese visited Japan in 2022.
Ha Long Bay is listed by Travel + Leisure as one of the best places in Asia to watch both sunrise and sunset.
Five to nine Creative Design Centers will be set up by late 2023 to promote OCOP products.
Vietnam's tourism suppliers have won top awards in the categories of unique homestay, community tourism associated with local economic development, qualified public toilets, and best ASEAN spa services.
Tourism is expected to label ASEAN as stable, peaceful, dignified, upholding human values, and able to support world economic stability.
Hanoi expects to market its brand as an attractive tourism destination in the region and the world and disseminate the city’s image in major source markets.
In 2024, Vietnam's tourism revenues are expected to reach US$11 billion, which will surpass the pre-pandemic amount of $10.8 billion in 2019.
Local businesses are advised to be more creative, react faster, and have more resources to adapt to unforeseen changes by 2023.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, an average of 7.5 million Chinese tourists traveled to Vietnam each year, accounting for one-third of the country's total international visitors.
The city's tourism industry is designed to be professional and highly competitive thanks to increasing investment, incentive mechanisms, and digital transformation.
Vietnam's tourism continues to demonstrate a strong and steady recovery from the pandemic's effects despite mounting economic and geopolitical challenges since its reopening to international visitors in March 2022.
Hanoi will work with neighboring provinces on new traveling routes to further improve tourism in the Red River delta region.
The two sectors are expected to soon develop policies that will help their companies overcome the impacts of Covid-19, recover and thrive.