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Vietnam to cater more to Chinese tourists

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of Chinese travelers to Vietnam in 2016 accounted for one-third of all foreign travelers. 

Vietnam attends fifth sea festival in Cambodia

 Vietnam along with Thailand, China, India and Indonesia, participated in the fifth sea festival 2016 in Cambodia from December 23-25.

Vietnamese keen on traveling abroad

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam, with increasingly high income per capita, has become an attractive market targeted by foreign travel firms.

Russia targets VN to promote tourism

More Russian tourists are heading to Viet Nam as it is a beautiful and safe destination, according to Sergey Korneev, vice director of the Russian Administration of Tourism (Rostourism).

VN tourism in full recovery mode

 The local tourism sector has fully recovered, thus entering a new stage of development, said Nguyen Van Tuan, head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

VN Administration of Tourism appoints key personnel

 The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) last week announced and presented decisions on the appointments of key personnel of five departments.

Responsible tourism is national priority: official

 Responsible tourism is everyone’s business and the industry has the potential to become the cornerstone of the nation’s economy, says the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Vietnam welcomes 7.94 million foreign arrivals in 2015

 VietNamNet Bridge – International visitors to Vietnam witnessed a modest year-on-year decrease of 0.2 percent to 7.94 million in 2015, the latest report from the General Statistics Office (GSO) reveals.

VNAT gets tough on re-registrations for int’l tour licenses

 VietNamNet Bridge – After September 15, travel companies failing to re-register for their business operations as regulated will lose their licenses for outbound and inbound tours,

VNAT, Mobifone sign agreement to develop tourism

VNAT, Mobifone sign agreement to develop tourism, Mekong Delta tourism remains unattractive, Green tourism week held in Kien Giang, Mekong Delta: moves to enhance green tourism investments

Silver lining for struggling tourism industry

Inbound arrivals for the five months leading up to June dipped 12.6% year-on-year to 2.3 million, according to the latest statistics of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Vietnam taps natural resources to drive tourism

Dotted by charming small towns from the mountains to the west and the ocean to the east, Vietnam is renewing efforts to tap its natural resources to help drive tourism in the central region. 

Vietnam tourism industry gearing up for growth

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s tourism and hospitality sector will create 250,000 job opportunities over the next five years and an all-out effort is being made to prepare young people to staff them,

VNAT seeks to stop foreign visitor falls

VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and the Vietnam Tourism Association sat down together on Wednesday to devise promotional programs as a measure to curb a further decline in international visitors

Vietnam actively promoting tourism in int’l markets

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s travel and tourism agencies have actively promoted Vietnam as a peaceful, hospitable and attractive destination to tourism markets around the world through a number of international tourism fairs.

VNAT to launch tourism stimulus program

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam National Administration of Tourism announced a stimulus program for domestic tours in an effort to offset the falling number of international arrivals in the last six months.

Tourism sector focuses on promoting national brand

 Brand development has the utmost significant role in tourism promotion and marketing, requiring the involvement of different stakeholders across sectors.

International travel agencies honoured

 As many as 47 international travel agencies were honoured at a ceremony held in Hanoi on November 28 by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) for their contributions to the development of the country’s sector.

HCM City to have new Tourism Department

HCM City will become the first location in Vietnam to have a tourism management body, following a decision by the Prime Minister and the municipal People's Council, which both approved the proposal of the city government.

Tourism maintains growth despite adversity

VietNamNet Bridge – The tourism sector maintained good growth in the first seven months of 2014 despite a fall in the number of Chinese-spoken tourists,