More international tourists to visit Vietnam in 2010, forecast

There will be more international tourists visiting Vietnam in 2010, Nguyen Van Tuan, head of general Tourism Department spoke at the conference “Draft strategy of Vietnam tourism development till 2020 and vision to 2030″ in Hanoi last Friday.

Reportedly, in November, 388,000 tourist arrivals came to Vietnam, jumping 70.2 percent month on month and 38.6 percent against last November. Since the year early, the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam has totalled at 3.4 million arrivals, down 12.3 percent year-on-year.

In his opinion, the country’s tourism broadcasting programme held in seven big cities of China and three of Japan started to take effective. Particularly, in November, 64,700 arrivals visited Vietnam from China, 34,600 arrivals from Japan, 30,000 Korean tourists and 24,000 Taiwanese arrived in Vietnam

As per forecast, Vietnam will welcome 400,000 international tourist arrivals, bringing the full year’s total figure to 3.8 million arrivals, a year-on-year dip from 2008.

If the domestic and global economies have no sudden movement, the number of foreign tourists to Vietnam in 2010 will surge 10 percent from 2009 to 4.2-4.25 million arrivals.

Apart from 25 billion dong a year invested in developing tourism products and human resources, over 15 billion dong will be added to the national tourism promotion programme in priority markets of Northeastern Asia and Asean.

Tags: Vietnam Tourism

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