Từ khóa: #International Visitors

Vietnam has recorded a significant increase in the number of international tourist arrivals by sea since the beginning of this year.

From now until the end of the year, numerous airlines, travel agencies, and shopping centers in Ho Chi Minh City are actively offering a range of discounts and attractive deals.

Vietnam welcomed nearly 5.6 million international visitors in the first half of this year, accounting for 66% of the figure the country recorded in 2019 before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic

Vietnamese agricultural products are being sold a lot in commercial centers, supermarkets, and convenience stores in the country and exported to European countries, the US, and Japan.

Vice Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai said that Ho Chi Minh City wishes to promote cooperation with Argentina’s Buenos Aires Province.

A Marshall Islands-flagged cruise ship carrying 637 foreign passengers on March 1 arrived in the resort Nha Trang city in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa.

Total revenue from tourism in the first two months of 2023 reached VND4,700 billion (US$197.4 million), amounting to 2.2 times the number during the same period last year, announced the General Statistics Office.

Some travel businesses are busy preparing to welcome back groups of international visitors at the end of this month.

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

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.

Since the beginning of the year, Vietnam has welcomed over 2.2 million international visitors, with Ho Chi Minh City alone welcoming more than 2 million foreign visitors. However, compared to some countries, such as Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia, which have received over 7.56 million, 3.74 million, and 4.5 million arrivals, respectively, Vietnam's tourism recovery rate is still slow. Businesses and many management agencies explained that one of the reasons is the less attractive visa policies.

 

Under the pilot period of welcoming international tourists who hold vaccine passports from November 2021 to March 14, 2022, the coastal province and city of Khanh Hoa and Phu Quoc (Kien Giang Province) received numerous travelers from Russia, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Malaysia, notably Khanh Hoa Province recorded over 10,000 arrivals.

Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport welcomed the first international commercial flight on March 15 morning after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The HCMC Department of Tourism received many opinions from experts and travel agencies at a seminar on collecting measures attracting international visitors to HCMC in 2022 that was held on March 3.