Tourist to Hanoi rise 16pct

Hanoi has received 1.2 million foreigners and 10.6 million Vietnamese in 2010, a year-on-year increase of 16 percent, thanks to its successfully organising the 1,000th anniversary and National Tourism Year.

Hanoi plans to have 11.8 million to 12 million Vietnamese visitors and 1.8 million to 2 million foreign ones in 2015.

To achieve the target, Mai Tien Dung, Deputy Director of the Municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that the city must make full use of natural resources, cultural and historical relics and diversify tourism products. It should combine tourism development with natural resource and environment protection, improve the quality of services, and develop human resources.

Dung added that the city should also increase investment in infrastructure, strengthen promotion activities, improve environmental sanitation and transport systems and complete a master plan for tourism development by 2020 with a vision for 2025 and detail plans for specific destinations. – VOV

Tags: Vietnam Tourism

Posted by VBN on Dec 21 2010. Filed under Tourism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry