Accordingly, Vietnam will gradually become a particularly attractive destination in the group of 50 countries with the world’s leading tourism competitiveness.
Tourists visit the mangrove forest at Tam Giang Lagoon, Thua Thien-Hue. (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)
The action program received comments of managers, experts, businesses and tourism operators in order to concretize the guidelines and directions of the Party in the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the main goals and tasks in the field of tourism mentioned in the Government’s Resolution 50/NQ-CP dated May 20, 2021 on the Action Program to realize the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress.
The scheme will focus on the application of advanced science and technology, along with utilising digital technologies in the tourism industry.
The tourism industry will develop a national database system on tourism, conduct surveys for classifying and digitalising Vietnamese tourism resources, including establishing a digital information system on tourist sites, tourist service establishments, as well as the country’s tourism markets.
The above tasks are concretized by 17 key projects and tasks. Of which, there are projects and tasks that contribute to overcoming the “bottlenecks” of Vietnam’s tourism, such as tourism infrastructure (attached to supporting investment in and development of community tourism and agriculture tourism in a number of northern border provinces, Central provinces, the Central Highlands and the Mekong River Delta) and tourism products (project on development of sea and island tourism by 2025, towards 2030; Master plan on tourism development in 7 driving force areas by 2030; project on development of night tourism products).
In addition, a number of tasks also contribute to solving the immediate difficulties and backlogs of tourism in the context of the COVID epidemic, such as: policies to support tourism businesses and workers to overcome difficulties caused by the epidemic in combination with financial support measures, tax exemption and reduction and preferential loans and those to promote digitization and application of modern technologies to create a smart tourism ecosystem.
The coordination between ministries, branches and localities is also specifically mentioned in order to help tourism overcome difficulties, develop sustainably and become a spearhead economic sector of the country./.