Hanoi welcomed around 560,000 visitors during the New Year holiday from January 1 to 4, earning a total revenue of VND2.1 trillion (nearly US$79.85 million), marking increases of 250% in volume and 254% in value compared to the same period last year.

The tourism sector of the central city of Da Nang has intensified its promotion and marketing efforts to attract more tourists from key target markets including China, Japan, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia, according to Director of the municipal Department of Tourism Truong Thi Hong Hanh.

Southern localities are preparing conditions to bring their advantages into full play to attract tourists over the upcoming four-day National Day holiday (August 31-September 3) – the last long break this year.

With more than 5,000 accommodation establishments receiving Travel Sustainable badge of Booking.com, Vietnam is among the top five countries in Asia-Pacific region with the highest number of the providers of this kind of service recognised for their efforts to operate more sustainably.

India is seen as a potential market for Vietnam’s tourism, and the country will strengthen promotion activities to lure more holiday-makers from the South Asian market, according to Director of the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Trung Khanh.

The German travel news site reisereporter.de has listed Vietnam among the ten most charming destinations for German holiday-makers to explore and escape the upcoming winter in Europe.

Hanoi is striving for over 15 million domestic tourists in 2021, equal to 70% of that in 2019 and but two times higher than that in 2020, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

VOV.VN - Amid increasing concerns about losing out to foreign rivals, the Vietnamese tourism industry is in the process of devising ways in which to welcome back foreign travelers, providing that they enter the country with a vaccine passport.