Conference discusses promoting the attractions to international tourists to Vietnam

22/12/2022, 09:40

BTO- A hybrid conference chaired by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to promote the attraction of international tourists to Vietnam took place on December 21. At the hybrid conference with localities nationwide, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked ministries, agencies, localities, and businesses to take into consideration the diversity of the products, markets, and supply chains while seeking ways to boost the tourism sector.

Also attending the hybrid conference in Hanoi, there were Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and leaders of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and representatives of a number of associations, businesses, and large investors in the field of tourism and services.

Prime Minister Chinh urged ministries, agencies, localities and businesses, and experts to propose solutions to remove obstacles and set out tasks and solutions to realize the effort on the basis of traditional culture, creating tourism breakthroughs next year.

Nearly 597,000 foreigners visited Vietnam in November, up 23.2% month-on-month, bringing their total number in the first 11 months of this year to 2.95 million, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnam earned some 536.3 trillion VND (21.6 billion USD) from accommodation and catering services, up 56.5% year-on-year, while revenue in the travel and tourism industry was estimated at 22.9 trillion VND, a 4.1-fold increase compared to that of the same period last year.

As one of the nationwide online attendees, Binh Thuan provincial authorities reported its tourism achievements in 2022. Specifically, the locality has welcomed approximately 5,720,000 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 3.2 times and exceeding 28.5 percent over the year plan. Reportedly, a majority of tourists to Binh Thuan are domestic tourists with a slow recovery in international tourist arrivals. such drop may come from the political instability among some countries in the world, r the fierce competition between tourist destinations in the world and the region, and the shortage of human resources caused by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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According to Bao Binh Thuan
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