Among the number, foreign visitors will be roughly 5.5 million, rising 11 per cent against 2017.Dung said that a series of programs on tourism promotion, attraction and cooperation will be implemented to meet the targets.
Besides enhancing the development of high quality tourist products that are connected to the capital’s tourist trademarks, Hanoi will also increase the investment in infrastructure to boost high-end services. It hopes to have 80 above-3-star hotels and 600 hotels below 3-stars.
The department plans to continue enhancing cooperation with other cities and provinces to develop new tourism products, create tours linking popular attractions and other destinations both at home and overseas, and boost tourism promotion abroad.
Hanoi expects to welcome roughly 5.5 million foreign visitors next year.
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“Hanoi will actively deploy a series of solutions to maintain position as one of the world’s leading attractive destinations. We will cooperate with Hanoi-based embassies and international organizations to connect and promote tourism development at the international market, " Dung said.
The capital city estimated that it will welcome more than 23.8 million visitors and earn roughly 71 trillion VND (3.1 billion USD) from the tourism sector this year, an increase of 15 percent from the same period last year.
The number includes nearly 5 million foreign tourists from key markets such as China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, France, the US, Germany, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand and Canada.
In 2017, the Hanoi Tourism Department focused on coordinating with relevant agencies and tour operators to improve the quality of the city’s destinations, especially cultural tourism ones, such as the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long; the artist village of Co Do and the community based tourism in three communes of Ba Trai, Van Hoa and Ba Vi in the Ba Vi District; and the Huong Son tourist resort in the My Duc District.
The department also signed cooperation agreements with Hung Yen, Hai Duong, Vinh Phuc, Bac Ninh, Hoa Binh and southwestern provinces to develop new tourism products.
Besides organizing events including the 16th annual meeting of the Council for Promoting Tourism in Asia (CPTA) in Hanoi from October 20-25, 2017 to promote domestic tourism, the department also participated in major international tourism fairs such as the General Assembly of the Asia Pacific Cities Tourism Promotion Council (TPO) in South Korea; international tourism fairs and road shows in Japan, America, France, England; the Van Nam - Lao Cai - Quang Ninh - Hai Phong corridor cooperation meeting in Hai Phong.
The cooperation program with CNN to promote Hanoi on CNN international channel was also continued in 2017.
The Department of Tourism has so far collaborate with the diplomatic missions, international organizations, Vietnamese embassies abroad; airlines, media agencies, domestic and foreign major travel agents to introduce, promote, coordinate, exploit, and develop the domestic and international tourism markets.
The Ha Noi tourism sector last year made positive contribution to local economic development, gaining revenue of VND 61.75 trillion, up 12 percent against the previous year. It received over 4 million international visitors, up 23 percent against the previous year. Of which, nearly 2.9 million tourists made their stay in the capital, an increase of 24 percent.
