International tourist arrivals to Vietnam rebound in July

Duringthe first seven months of 2015, Vietnam welcomed nearly 4.4 millionoverseas visitors, a yearly decline of 9.4 percent, according to theGeneral Statistics Office.

Growing markets includedthe Republic of Korea, Finland, Singapore, Spain, Italy, the US, Taiwan(China), Germany, Japan and the Netherlands.

FromJanuary-July, the tourism sector served 43.1 million domesticvacationers and raked in over 214.37 trillion VND (10.1 billion USD) inrevenue, a year-on-year rise of 1.5 percent.

Currently, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the VietnamNational Administration of Tourism are working with localities toimplement the Government’s resolution on five-year visa exemptions forBelarus and one-year exemptions for five Western European countries,including the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

The two agencies have also coordinated with the national flag carrierVietnam Airlines to conduct tourism promotion programmes.

The tourism sector plans to coordinate with the Ministry of ForeignAffairs, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Vietnamese Embassiesand Trade Offices in the six countries to popularise Vietnam’s visaexemption policy.

At the same time, Vietnam isexpected to partake in a number of international tourism fairs inGermany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain.

Apromotion programme for tourists from the five Western Europeancountries has been launched with high-quality products at competitiveprices, including a 20-30 percent discount for local products, and atour to three Indochinese countries – Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, andanother visiting Thailand, Myanmar and Singapore.

With this programme, the tourism sector hopes to record a 10 percentgrowth in the number of holidaymakers in the first half of 2016 and 20percent in the remaining months of next year.

Italso expects to greet 1.1 million tourists from the five WesternEuropean countries between 2016 and 2018, up 50 percent against 2015.

International tourist arrivals to Vietnam rebound in July

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