The number of travelers who arrived in the Vietnamese capital between January and February last year was 2.8 times higher than the same period in 2022, the city tourism service said, according to which the sector’s revenue exceeded $558 million.
According to the director of this institution, Dang Huong Giang, quoted by the VNA news agency, the positive results correspond to the impetus of various cooperative activities of this organization aimed at the promotion and development of domestic and international markets.
Hanoi will strengthen tourism program design and marketing in partnership with major tourism provinces and cities in the northern region, Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces and the central highlands, he said.
In addition, more nighttime products will be introduced, including new activities in and around the pedestrian streets of Hoan Kiem Lake, around the ancient citadel of Son Tay and around Thien Quang Lake in Hai Ba Trung district, he said.
The tourism industry in the capital of Vietnam aims to welcome 22 million visitors by 2023, up 17.6% year-on-year, of which 19 million are nationals and the rest are foreigners, and generate an income of three thousand 260 dollars year-on-year. Annual increase of 28.2 percentage points.
In addition, the average hotel occupancy is expected to be around 45 percent, five points more than in 2022.
As for Vietnam, it welcomed 1.88 million foreign visitors in the first two months of 2023, up 36.6 percent from the same period last year.
However, the figure represents only 60 percent of foreign travelers who arrived in this Indochinese nation in 2019, before the scourge of the Covid-19 pandemic began, a report by the General Statistics Office pointed out.
Of all the tourists who have participated so far this year, most (1.29 million) came from Asian countries, while 242,500 came from Europe, America contributed 186,300, Oceania 77,300 and Africa 4,000.
Vietnam is aiming to welcome eight million foreign visitors this year, less than half of the 19 million it welcomed in 2019.
ro/mpm