Vietnam targets 8 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2023
Vietnam’s tourism sector targets to welcome about 8 million foreign tourist arrivals from a total of 110 million next year, according to the General Administration of Vietnam Tourism.
Vietnam’s tourism sector targets to welcome about 8 million foreign tourist arrivals next year. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)🔴 – Vietnam’s tourism sectortargets to welcome about 8 million foreign tourist arrivals from a total of 110 million next year, according to the General Administration of Vietnam Tourism.
The country expects to earn about 650 trillion VND(USD27.5 billion) from tourism. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen VanHung said that last year, Vietnam targeted to welcome 5 millioninternational arrivals., but the country received only 3.6 million due to limitations. Hung said that to achieve this year’s target, the entire industry is determined to implement the Prime Minister's conclusion at the conference to promoteattracting international tourists to Vietnam. Accordingly, the sector will coordinate more closelywith relevant ministries, especially the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry ofPublic Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Industryand Trade, to create a favourable mechanism to welcome international tourists. To attract international visitors,ministries, sectors, and localities must innovate and diversify products, hesaid, adding that the tourism authorities have just set a target that eachlocality must have a unique tourism product and pay more attention to regionallinkages. Under Vietnam’s tourism development plan for 2023, theindustry will implement some projects and strategies, the tourismadministration revealed. They include tourism network planning from 2021 to2030 with a vision to 2045, the VietnamTourism Marketing Strategy to 2030, the project "Application of Industry 4.0technology to develop smart tourism, turn tourism a spearhead economicsector", and a project on developing Vietnam's community-based tourism,among others. Communication campaigns will be launched on CNN andsome major international media channels, while tourism authorities willactively participate in international events to seek cooperation opportunities,it added. In 2022, Vietnam’s tourism gradually recovered, especially the domestic segment. The number of local tourists reached some 101 million. Total revenuefrom tourism is estimated at 21 billion USD, 23% higher than planned and 66%higher than that of 2019./.
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