(Cinet)- Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam tourism trade fair 2011 opened in southern Attapeu province of Laos on December 6. Present at the event were leaders of 13 provinces in the Development Triangle and business representatives from the three countries. Addressing at opening ceremony, Mr. Khamphan Phommathath, Party Secretary cum Chief of Attapeu province welcome the participates from Vietnam and Cambodia. He said the fair aims to effectively carry out the cooperation in the development triangle as agreed by the three countries, especially in trade and investment. It is also an opportunity for the three countries’businesses to share experiences in order to build a development triangle of solidarity, friendship and prosperity At the fair, businesses from Laos and Cambodia showcase their goods, including agricultural products, silver objects, brocade, and rattan furniture. Meanwhile, Vietnam’s Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Binh Phuoc provinces display their coffee, … [Read more...] about Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam tourism trade fair opens
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Strategy for developing Vietnam tourism until 2020 with a vision for 2030
(Cinet)- On December 30, 2011, The Prime Minister issued Decision No. 2473/QD-TTg on approving the strategy "Vietnam Tourism Development until 2020 with a vision for 2030”. The overall objectives of the strategy is to 2020, Vietnam Tourism basically become a spearhead economic sector, have a professional, systematic and technical facilities are relatively uniform, high quality tourism products, diversified, branded, bearing deep culture, competing with other countries in the region. Striving to 2030, Vietnam became tourism development country. Specifically, the sector will grow by an average of 11.5-12 percent from 2011 to 2020. It has set the target of welcoming 7-7.5 million international tourists and having 36-37 million domestic tourists in 2015. Total tourism revenues are expected to hit US$18-19 billion in 2020. The tourism sector will focus on developing green and cultural tourism packages and strengthening linkages within each region to build tourist products typical … [Read more...] about Strategy for developing Vietnam tourism until 2020 with a vision for 2030
Establishing Evaluation and test Council of the master plan for development Vietnam tourism
(Cinet)- Document No. 57/QD-BVHTTDL of MOCST on the establishment of evaluation and test Council of "the master plan for development Vietnam tourism by 2020, vision to 2030” According to the decision, Deputy Minister of MOCST, Ho Anh Tuan is Chairman ofevaluation and test Council of the master plan for development Vietnam tourism; Mr. Ho Viet Ha – Director of Department of Planning and Finance (MOCST) as Vice – Chairman. In addition, the Council has 05 members, 04 experts, 03 review members and 02 secretary members.Council is responsible for organizing the assessment, evaluation and testing, report to the Minister the results of evaluation and acceptance of "the master plan to develop Vietnam tourism by 2020, vision to 2030" for VNAT to modify, supplement before Ministerpresented tothe Prime Minister. … [Read more...] about Establishing Evaluation and test Council of the master plan for development Vietnam tourism
Vietnam tourism to be catch up Indonesia in 2017
Vietnam welcomed more than 11.6 million international tourists in 2017, not yet counting December, a year-on-year rise of 27.8 percent. Meanwhile, Vietnam tourism also welcomed 68 million domestic visitors, in which 33.2 million long stay tourists, reaching more than VND 461 billion, a year-on-year rise of 25.2 percentDuring the aforementioned period, the number of holidaymakers from Asian countries increased 32.6% compared to the same period last year. Several nations saw the strong growth of tourists to Vietnam including China, up 44.9%; the Republic of Korea, up 55.3%; Japan, up 7.7%; Taiwan (China), up 20.9%; and Malaysia, up 16.5%.Meanwhile, visitors from European nations experienced a year-on-year rise of 17%. Encouraging growth was seen in some markets such as Russia which surged 34.8%, the United Kingdom rose 11.3%; Spain, up 19.8%; and Italy which grew 12.8%.The administration chose 2017 as the Travel Year with an aim to enhance service quality of travel agencies and … [Read more...] about Vietnam tourism to be catch up Indonesia in 2017
Australian fam-trip delegation survey Vietnam tourism
According to the Vietnam Administration of Tourism (VNAT), it in conjunction with Vietjet Air and Singapore Airlines are receiving the fam-trip delegation from Perth, Sydney and Melbourne of Australia to survey Vietnamese well-known tourist destinations of Can Gio, My Son, Hoi An, Hue, Ha Noi and Ha Long.At a meeting with the delegation, Ngo Hoai Chung, VNAT’s Deputy General Director, said that Australia is one of the key markets of Vietnam’s tourist industry, ranking seventh among the 10 leading tourist markets of Vietnam. In 2016, Vietnam welcomed 320,688 Australian tourists, an increase of 5.6 percent compared to 2015. In the first 10 months of 2017, the number of Australian visitors to Vietnam was 308,560, up 14.2 percent year-on-year. Chung expected that the visit of the Australian delegation to Vietnam will further promote cooperation between the two countries and there will be more Australians to choose Vietnam as an attractive tourist … [Read more...] about Australian fam-trip delegation survey Vietnam tourism