Around 20,000 budget air tickets will be sold at Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) 2019 scheduled to take place on March 27-30 in Hanoi.

Vietnam International Travel Mart 2018

The information was given by vice chairman of the Vietnam Tourism Association (VITA) Vu The Binh, organiser of the event, at a press conference on Thursday.   

The mart will display 502 booths of tourism products, packages and destinations. It will bring together 720 travel companies from 25 countries and territories.

The firms will offer 32,000 tours and 20,000 air tickets of attractive prices.

Green tourism aimed at raising public awareness of environmental protection and biodiversity will be one of the event’s highlights along with the topic about opportunities and challenges for the tourism sector in the era of Industry 4.0.

The fair to be held at the International Exhibition Centre, 91 Tran Hung Dao Street, is expected to lure 85,000 visitors with a total revenue of VND350 billion (USD15.21 million).

Last year, the mart welcomed some 60,000 visitors with 29,000 among those registering tours, bring travel firms a total revenue of VND245 billion.

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