Day: April 5, 2024

HCM City: A wide range of vibrant activities are being held within the 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Fair, which kicked off on April 4 to promote the southern metroplis as a safe, attractive and hospitable destination for both domestic and foreign visitors.

Over 150 booths are arranged at the four-day fair where 50 vendors from 45 cities and provinces are touting promotion tourism programmes and products to the visitors.

Nearly 400 low-cost tours, travel vouchers and discounted tourism services are on sale at the event, with a total value of some 50 billion VND (2 million USD).

Along with packages with steep discounts, there are many gifts and lucky draws which are expected to bring fascinating experience to visitors.

Travel firms reported handsome sales right on the first day of the fair as their packages were sold like hot cakes, earning them more than 26.3 billion VND in revenue, up 49% year-on-year.

The event features acoustic and stilt walking performances, an exchange programme to introduce culture
and destinations of different localities and various tourism promotion workshops, among others.

A highlight of this year’s fair is a tourism career exchange that helps connect travel businesses with workers and students.

According to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan, as a tourism hub of the country, HCM City has worked to develop specific plans and actions to bolster tourism post pandemic.

The fair is expected to enhance cooperation between travel firms and promote regional linkages so as to improve tourism offerings’ quality and competitive edge, he said.

In Q1, HCM City welcomed 1.38 million tourist arrivals, a year-on-year surge of 32.4% and accounting for 30% of the country’s total international visitors. Meanwhile, it served over 8 million domestic arrivals, up 6.6% from the same time last year.

Tourism revenue was 44.7 trillion VND in the period, rising 23.8% year-on-year and making up 23.7% of the country’s total earnings./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

HCM City: A wide range of vibrant activities are being held within the 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Fair, which kicked off on April 4 to promote the southern metroplis as a safe, attractive and hospitable destination for both domestic and foreign visitors.

Over 150 booths are arranged at the four-day fair where 50 vendors from 45 cities and provinces are touting promotion tourism programmes and products to the visitors.

Nearly 400 low-cost tours, travel vouchers and discounted tourism services are on sale at the event, with a total value of some 50 billion VND (2 million USD).

Along with packages with steep discounts, there are many gifts and lucky draws which are expected to bring fascinating experience to visitors.

Travel firms reported handsome sales right on the first day of the fair as their packages were sold like hot cakes, earning them more than 26.3 billion VND in revenue, up 49% year-on-year.

The event features acoustic and stilt walking performances, an exchange programme to introduce culture
and destinations of different localities and various tourism promotion workshops, among others.

A highlight of this year’s fair is a tourism career exchange that helps connect travel businesses with workers and students.

According to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan, as a tourism hub of the country, HCM City has worked to develop specific plans and actions to bolster tourism post pandemic.

The fair is expected to enhance cooperation between travel firms and promote regional linkages so as to improve tourism offerings’ quality and competitive edge, he said.

In Q1, HCM City welcomed 1.38 million tourist arrivals, a year-on-year surge of 32.4% and accounting for 30% of the country’s total international visitors. Meanwhile, it served over 8 million domestic arrivals, up 6.6% from the same time last year.

Tourism revenue was 44.7 trillion VND in the period, rising 23.8% year-on-year and making up 23.7% of the country’s total earnings./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Cao Bang: The 8th symposium of the Asia Pacific Geoparks Network (APGN), slated for this September, is expected to help promote tourism in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.

The biennial symposium, to be held by the Cao Bang People’s Committee and the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO from September 7 to 15, will attract about 800 – 1,000 international and domestic delegates.

It will include meetings of the UNESCO Global Geopark Council to evaluate and re-evaluate dossiers, a meeting of the APGN Cordination Committee and Advisory Committee, general and thematic seminars, bilateral meetings between regional geoparks, cultural and artistic performances, exhibitions, along with booths for introducing Cao Bang’s tourism to delegates.

Vi Tran Thuy, Deputy Director of the Management Board of the Non Nuoc Cao Bang UNESCO Global Geopark, said the board has proposed the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the provincial People’s Committee establish an advisory board, a scientif
ic council, subcommittees, and supporting groups to prepare for the event organisation. It has also coordinated with relevant departments and units to build a volunteer and collaborator training plan.

The management board has also worked with UNESCO experts to develop a registration portal and a symposium management software in English and Vietnamese for delegates to register their attendance and submit reports.

Located in the north of Vietnam, 300km from Hanoi, Non Nuoc Cao Bang was recognised as a UNESCO global geopark in 2018. It covers 3,000sq.km and is home to nine ethnic groups, including Tay, Nung, Mong, Dao, and San Chay.

The geopark is an exceptional territory which offers insights into the history of the planet across more than 500 million years through protected sites. Fossils, marine sediment, volcanic and plutonic rocks and minerals are witness to the remarkable evolution and changes of the earth, and they constitute an exceptional geological heritage.

It is also a land of tangible and intang
ible cultural heritage sites and special historical monuments. The area is also well-known for its high biological diversity with abundant endemic plant and animal species and ecosystems.

Cao Bang province is also renowned for its many scenic attractions, such as the Phia Oac Ecotourism Area, Phia Den, the Thang Hen Lake cluster, Nguom Ngao Cave, and especially Ban Gioc Waterfall, which was once voted one of the four most majestic and beautiful border waterfalls in the world./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Cao Bang: The 8th symposium of the Asia Pacific Geoparks Network (APGN), slated for this September, is expected to help promote tourism in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.

The biennial symposium, to be held by the Cao Bang People’s Committee and the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO from September 7 to 15, will attract about 800 – 1,000 international and domestic delegates.

It will include meetings of the UNESCO Global Geopark Council to evaluate and re-evaluate dossiers, a meeting of the APGN Cordination Committee and Advisory Committee, general and thematic seminars, bilateral meetings between regional geoparks, cultural and artistic performances, exhibitions, along with booths for introducing Cao Bang’s tourism to delegates.

Vi Tran Thuy, Deputy Director of the Management Board of the Non Nuoc Cao Bang UNESCO Global Geopark, said the board has proposed the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the provincial People’s Committee establish an advisory board, a scientif
ic council, subcommittees, and supporting groups to prepare for the event organisation. It has also coordinated with relevant departments and units to build a volunteer and collaborator training plan.

The management board has also worked with UNESCO experts to develop a registration portal and a symposium management software in English and Vietnamese for delegates to register their attendance and submit reports.

Located in the north of Vietnam, 300km from Hanoi, Non Nuoc Cao Bang was recognised as a UNESCO global geopark in 2018. It covers 3,000sq.km and is home to nine ethnic groups, including Tay, Nung, Mong, Dao, and San Chay.

The geopark is an exceptional territory which offers insights into the history of the planet across more than 500 million years through protected sites. Fossils, marine sediment, volcanic and plutonic rocks and minerals are witness to the remarkable evolution and changes of the earth, and they constitute an exceptional geological heritage.

It is also a land of tangible and intang
ible cultural heritage sites and special historical monuments. The area is also well-known for its high biological diversity with abundant endemic plant and animal species and ecosystems.

Cao Bang province is also renowned for its many scenic attractions, such as the Phia Oac Ecotourism Area, Phia Den, the Thang Hen Lake cluster, Nguom Ngao Cave, and especially Ban Gioc Waterfall, which was once voted one of the four most majestic and beautiful border waterfalls in the world./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Hanoi: The tourism sector is striving to maintain the growth momentum recorded in the first quarter so as to fulfil the target of serving 18 million foreign visitors this year, given a full recovery in most of Vietnam’s markets.

In January-March, more than 4.6 million foreigners chose Vietnam as a holiday destination, representing increases of 72% over the same period last year and 3.2% compared to that in the same period of 2019. The sector also served 30 million domestic tourists. Total revenue from tourists is estimated at 195 trillion VND (7.8 billion USD).

According to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, major markets in Northeast Asia continued to see remarkable growth and are the main driving force for the recovery while those in Southeast Asia also grew well and in Europe continued to grow strongly thanks to the effect of the unilateral visa exemption policy by Vietnam. The recovery of the Chinese market in the period reached 69%, showi
ng a positive sign.

Major tourist destinations across the country also saw positive results in the past three months, attributable to early communication, advertising and promotion to stimulate tourism demand and favourable visa policies.

Notably, Hanoi welcomed about 6.54 million visitors, including around 1.4 million foreigners, representing year-on-year rises of 10.9% and 40%, respectively, and earned more than 25 trillion VND.

The central province of Quang Nam, home to the world cultural heritage sites of Hoi An ancient city and My Son Sanctuary, served over 1.6 million visitors, including more than 910,000 foreigner. The number of foreign arrivals represented a 36% year-on-year rise.

Thanks to its promotion efforts, the central province of Khanh Hoa which boasts the renowned Nha Trang beach city welcomed 2.1 million holiday-makers, of whom over 1.2 million are foreigners, during January-March.

Other localities like Da Nang and Binh Dinh also reported impressive results.

Besides the target of 18-mil
lion foreign arrivals, the sector also aims to serve 110 million domestic ones to earn 850 trillion VND.

To that end, VNAT Director Nguyen Trung Khanh stressed the need to innovate promotion methods; focus on exploiting customer market segments and products that Vietnam has strengths in such as MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions), golf, community-based tourism, cuisine, health care; and expand railway tourism.

It is also necessary to establish offices to promote Vietnamese tourism abroad, firstly in Vientiane, he added./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency