Tourism

Lotte Duty Free and Modetour - tourism service businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Seoul on January 26 to strengthen joint marketing efforts toward promoting the tourism market in Vietnam.

Vietnam won 54 prizes at the 2023 World Travel Awards - Asia and Oceania region last year, positioning the country's brand on top of the global tourism map and turning travel to the Southeast Asian nation into a bright spot in terms of socioeconomic recovery.

On January 25, the Hue Monuments Conservation Center officially announced outstanding programs at Hue Festival 2024.

The restart of the public bicycle system in the center of Hue city aims to create an experiential, attractive, healthy and environmentally sustainable sports tourism product, spreading the cycling movement in residential communities.

The An Giang Trade and Investment Promotion Center has launched the tourism product Colorful Raft Village at the confluence of Chau Doc River, at Cham Da Phuoc Village Residential Area, Da Phuoc Town, An Phu District.

Vietnam Airlines Group including Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines and VASCO continues to add more than 66,200 seats, equivalent to more than 310 domestic flights.

Ha Long Bay and Sa Pa ranked 3rd and 5th, respectively, in the list of the world’s most popular destinations in 2024, voted by users on the famous travel platform Tripadvisor.

During the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin 2024, the Hue Monuments Conservation Center will open its doors to welcome tourists and people to visit Kien Trung Palace and Thai Hoa Palace.

(CPV) – In 2023, the domestic tourism market saw increases of 1,175 businesses, 3,709 tourist guides and about 3,000 tourist accommodation establishments compared to 2022.

(CPV) - With rapid growth by the end of 2023, the tourism industry expects a strong breakthrough in 2024, welcoming 17-18 million international visitors, equal to 2019 - the "golden year" of Vietnamese tourism before COVID-19 epidemic. This number shows the determination of the tourism industry to fully recover, while also posing significant challenges in competing with countries in the region.

The US travel website Travel Off Path has praised Vietnam as the safest country to visit in Asia in 2024, according the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism.

The search volume for Vietnam's tourism via Google's market trend tracking tool grew 75% in 2023, ranking 6th in the world, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT).

After a period of restoration, Thai Hoa and Kien Trung Palaces, two important palaces of the former Nguyen Dynasty, are set to open to visitors during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, known locally as Tet.

Vietnam’s tourism in 2023 reaped success with outstanding achievements. Prestigious awards honoring Vietnamese destinations or welcoming record international visitors once again contribute to clearly positioning the country’s brand on the world tourism map.

The Vietnamese tourism industry anticipates a strong breakthrough year with the global tourism market set to make a complete recovery by the end of 2024.

The cruise ship Westerdam with over 2,000 tourists and 781 crew members on board, mostly from the Netherlands, docked at Tien Sa Port in the central city of Da Nang on January 2.

The central province of Thua Thien – Hue accorded its first 200 visitors on New Year day to a special welcoming ceremony at Phu Bai International Airport on January 1.

The number of visitors to Hanoi on the New Year holiday from December 30, 2023 to January 1, 2024 is 402,000, up 65% year-on-year.

Hoi An ancient city, UNESCO-recognsied world cultural heritage, in the central province of Quang Nam served tens of thousands of tourists on the occasion of the New Year holiday from December 30, 2023 to January 1, 2024.

Luxury cruise ship Westerdam docked at Nha Trang port of Nha Trang bay, one of the most beautiful bay in the world, on December 31, bringing approximately 2,000 foreign visitors, mostly Dutch travelers, to the central coastal city, the capital of Khanh Hoa province.

(CPV) - Christmas 2023 has passed, and the New Year 2024 is coming. This is also the peak tourist season in Vietnam. On these days, the number of international visitors to Vietnam always increases impressively. Coming to the country, tourists have many interesting things to experience because even though Vietnamese people do not consider this a main holiday and not everyone celebrates this day, they still hold many activities to welcome it.

Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City greeted nearly 5 million international tourists and provided services for nearly 35 million domestic visitors in 2023, earning a total tourism revenue of more than 160 trillion VND, said the Department of Tourism in a recent meeting.

International visitor arrivals to Vietnam reached nearly 1.4 million in 2023, up 11.2% from the previous month and up 93.9% compared the same period last year. The month recorded the highest number of international visitors arriving the country in 2023.

A meeting was held in Binh Dinh on December 28 to discuss how to promote tourism development link between the south-central province, and Atapu, Sekong, Champasak and Salavan province, southern Laos.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Huy Tang handed over office equipment worth 100,000 USD – the gift from the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, to representatives of the Cambodian Senate at a ceremony in Phnom Penh on December 29.

The National Tourism Year 2023, with the theme “Binh Thuan – Green Convergence”, has held 208 national and international events, contributing to the overall success of Vietnamese tourism this year.

With nearly 10.9 million seats sold from January to December, the Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City route ranks 4th among the 10 busiest domestic routes in the world in 2023.

On December 26 and 27, the Hanoi Department of Tourism organised fact-finding trips to build two new tourist routes on the theme of exploring the Nam Thang Long Heritage Road, with the focus on exploiting the strengths of cultural heritage and craft villages in suburban localities.

More than 5 million Vietnamese tourists traveled abroad in 2023, the majority of them choosing Thailand, the Republic of Korea, or Taiwan (China) for their vacation.

The Sai Gon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company (Saratrans) has added 3,000 seats for trains from Sai Gon, Di An and Bien Hoa stations to stations from Quang Ngai to Hanoi and vice versa, to meet the increasing travel demand during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays, said Thai Van Quyen, General Director of Saratrans.