international visitors

Apart from local travelers, hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors flocked to tourist sites across the country during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

Many travel agencies in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday said that Tet holiday tours have been increasing from 25 percent to 40 percent over ordinary days.

Travel firms are offering tours lasting for two or three days to satisfy the increasing demand during the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year), the biggest holiday in Vietnam.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAV) has asked relevant departments and units to strengthen order and security and ensure traffic safety during the Tet holidays.

When tourism real estate projects started construction, they were expected to become a driving force for local tourism development, helping to create jobs and generate revenue for the budget. However, the actual situation is different.

The Ho Chi Minh City Food and Beverage Association collaborated with Vietnam Innovation Network to organize the “Vietnam Food and Beverage Association Day” and “Vietnamese cuisine forum 2023” yesterday.

International tourism in Vietnam has not picked up as expected after the country reopened again to welcome visitors after the Covid-19 pandemic.

International tourism in Vietnam has not picked up as expected after the country reopened again to welcome visitors after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hanoi is working to make a breakthrough in tourism development this year by creating new and distinctive products to attract more domestic and international visitors, according to the municipal Tourism Department.

The lunar New Year (Tet) festival is an occasion for the tourism industry to promote unique Vietnamese traditional culture to international friends in the country and abroad and contribute to increasing revenue from the sector.

Director of the HCMC Tourism Department, Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa said that the department will continue to diversify tourist products to attract domestic and international visitors to HCMC.

A food culture festival organized by Saigontourist Group has been honored with the title “Asia's Best Culinary Festival 2022” at the World Culinary Awards.

According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), the country’s tourism industry served around three million domestic visitors during the three-day 2023 New Year holiday from December 31, 2022, to January 2, 2023.

Localities and travel firms have quickly embarked on plans to welcome back Chinese tourists to Vietnam and take Vietnamese visitors to China.

A ceremony welcoming the first visitors to the city was organized in Tan Son Nhat International Airport on January 1, 2023, by the HCMC Department of Tourism in coordination with the functional departments of the city.

After suffering long –term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the bustling atmosphere has returned to the streets of major cities on New Year holidays.

Localities nationwide welcomed first New Year visitors on January 1.

The luxury cruise ship Seabourn Encore bringing 434 visitors arrived in HCMC on December 31.

Vietnam saw an 8.02 percent increase in GDP in 2022 which will pave the way for 2023 development.

According to statistics, the number of international visitors to Vietnam in 2022 reached 3.66 million. Of which, visitors arriving by air were 3.27 million, accounting for 89.5 percent of the total foreign tourists.