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On July 29, Hai Phong Department of Tourism issued Plan No. 64/KH-SDL on launching an emulation movement on implementing the digital transformation program of Hai Phong City to 2025, with an orientation to 2030.According to the plan, the Department focuses on raising awareness of the need and urgency of digital transformation; promoting the mission of digital transformation in implementing resolutions, strategies, action programs for socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security of the City in 2022 and the following years. Digital transformation is the Tourism Department’s priority in the office’s year tasks, aiming at developing digital infrastructure, creating open data, providing level 4 online public services, improving the city ranking in e-government. It is also the Department’s mission to build a system of monitoring and warning of risks to in response to network insecurity; completes with digital transformation tasks and solutions assigned by the City on time; creates favorable conditions for tourism businesses to apply digital technology to create new products and services in the tourism sector; facilitate officials’ participation in online mass courses for qualified digital transformation human resources to develop society./.

Vietnam has remained in the world’s top fastest-growing destinations, expanding 50 – 70% monthly, since the beginning of 2022, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).A corner of Hoi An ancient city in Quang Nam province. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has remained in the world’s top fastest-growing destinations, expanding 50 – 70% monthly, since the beginning of 2022, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). Vietnam welcomed 954,000 international tourists in the first seven months of 2022, a nine-fold increase from the same period last year. The growth in the number of foreign visitors averaged 62% per month during the January-July period, VNAT said.Most of the foreign visitors came from Asia-Pacific, including the Southeast Asian nations of Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. The Republic of Korea was Vietnam’s largest source of tourists during the period, followed by the US.Though small, the number of travellers from Europe has been on the rise, with a relatively high growth, particularly those from the UK, France and Germany.VNAT said the outlook for the recovery of tourism firms is more visible as the number of enterprises resuming their operations is increasing, providing more jobs. In the first half of the year, VNAT granted licences to 312 new international tour operators, up 286 from 2021.By the end of June, Vietnam had had 2,415 international travel companies and those operating domestically had reached 1,060.Phu Quoc Island is among the most popular destinations in Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)Search volumes for accommodations in Vietnam last month hit 100 points, 5.9 times higher than the start of March (17 points). Most of the traffic was from the US, Australia, Singapore, India, Japan, the RoK, the UK, Malaysia, Germany and Thailand.Meanwhile, the search volumes for foreign destinations by Vietnamese travellers in July soared 780% year-on-year as international travel has rebounded. The most searched destinations included six nations in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.VNAT further noted that Vietnam will attend the JATA Tourism Expo in Japan from September 22 – 25 and the World Travel Market (WTM) in the UK from November 7 – 9 in an effort to attract more foreign arrivals.The country will also host the International Travel Expo, one of the two largest international travel expos in Vietnam, in Ho Chi Minh City from September 8 – 10.A tourism promotion event will take place in Hoi An ancient city in the south central province of Quang Nam from October 9 – 14 as part of the Mekong Tourism Forum 2022./.

Revenue generated from tourism hit 11.9 trillion VND (509.85 million USD) in the first seven months of this year, a 2.7-fold rise year-on-year due to the strong recovery of tourism activities, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).The ancient city of Hoi An is always an attractive tourist destination for domestic and foreign visitors. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Revenue generated from tourism hit 11.9 trillion VND (509.85 million USD) in the first seven months of this year, a 2.7-fold rise year-on-year due to the strong recovery of tourism activities, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).Some localities recorded a high increase in tourism revenue in July, including Khanh Hoa province with a rise of 858.4%, Can Tho city by 328.3%, Da Nang city by 284.8%, Hanoi by 216.8% and Ho Chi Minh City by 111.4%.Revenue from accommodation and catering services in the first seven months of this year was estimated at 324.9 trillion VND, up 37.5% year-on-year.The number of international visitors to Vietnam in July reached 352,600, an increase of 49% compared to the previous month and 47.2 times higher than the same period last year.Vietnam welcomed 954,600 foreign visitors from January to July, 10 times higher than the figure in the same period last year.However, the seven-month number still falls short of the pre-pandemic figure, representing a drop of 90.3% compared to 2019. Visitors coming by air accounted for 87.1% of the total, 13.5 times higher than the figure of the same period last year.According to Deputy Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Pham Van Thuy, the country has set the target of serving about 65 million visitors, including 60 million domestic tourists and 5 million foreign ones. Vietnam has so far served about 71.8 million domestic visitors, exceeding the set target while the number of international visitors has not reached 1 million.As the peak season for foreign tourists to Vietnam falls from September this year to April next year, the goal might be achieved or not depending on many factors, including the pandemic issue, he said.Thuy went on to say that the tourism industry will continue to coordinate with relevant partners in other countries to conduct promotion programmes to realise the desired target./.

Located at Bach Dang River gateway at the Thai River and Da Bac River intersection (Minh Duc town of Thuy Nguyen Rural District), Trang Kenh Relic Complex, recognized as the national relic in 1962, has been among the well-known tourist and cultural spots in Hai Phong City.In the past, Trang Kenh was a strategic area in Vietnam’s borders defense. At the end of 938, Ngo Vuong Quyen made the final victory against Nam Han invading force in Vietnam’s history. In 981, Le Hoan defeated Tong enemy at Bach Dang River, where the heroic victory of Tran Dynasty’s military force agaisnt Mongol invaders took place 300 years later, making this land a great pride of our nation.As time goes by, Trang Kenh Relic Complex is now fanous for its immense religious art and architecture work, covering an area of about 20 ha. From 2008 to 2016, architect works built includes Victory Pole and Stone Park, Bach Dang River Temple, Trang Kenh Vong Temple, Tranh Kenh Spiritual Temple, Trang Kenh Truc Lam Temple, Holy Mother Temple, Ho Chi Minh President Temple, Musuem area, Victory Palace square. Besides, there are Temple area and tomb of General Tran Quoc Bao, Temple of Princess Le, Princess Nu; Temple of Tay Giang Marquis, Dong Giang Marquis, and heroes who had made contribution to the glorious Bach Dang victory.Trang Kenh is situated between Gia and Bach Dang Rivers, connecting Dong Trieu – Yen Tu (Quang Ninh) and Thuy Nguyen Rural District (Hai Phong), thus possessing diverse terrains with famous archaeological remains, and vivid folklore culture. With its outstanding sceneries, Trang Kenh has been considered as Ha Long Bay on land, well known for amazing caves, particularly King’s Cave of of 15-18 meters high and 5-10 meters long; sharp cave ceiling, many nooks and crannies, all year round water streams.The relic’s aesthetic foundation, geology, biodiversity, combined with local enthusiasm and talent of the Port City’s people, as well as the historic and cultural values makes the significant contribution to inspire nation’s pride and patriotism, partly explained the reason why Trang Kenh Relic Complex has become one of the famous tourist attraction./.

Vietnam Airlines' representative office Malaysia, in conjunction with travel companies Asia Companion Travel and Vietnam TravelMar, organised a tourism promotion workshop, themed "Exploring Vietnam with Vietnam Airlines", in Kuala Lumpur on July 19.Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia Tran Viet Thai speaks at the wrkshop. (Photo: VNA)Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Vietnam Airlines' representative office Malaysia, in conjunction with travel companies Asia Companion Travel and Vietnam TravelMar, organised a tourism promotion workshop, themed "Exploring Vietnam with Vietnam Airlines", in Kuala Lumpur on July 19.Addressing the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia Tran Viet Thai said COVID-19-induced challenges showed the importance of reconnecting the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Malaysia, giving them new opportunities to further tighten their friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance.The diplomat noted Vietnam Airlines’ reopening of flights connecting Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam to Kuala Lumpur and the upcoming Da Nang-Kuala Lumpur route reflected a strong post-pandemic recovery, particularly in tourism.He hoped to see more Malaysian tourists visiting Vietnam, thus helping to beef up trade and people-to-people exchanges between the two nations.Since mid-March this year, Vietnam has reopened its door and lifted quarantine measures, while Malaysia reopened its borders from the first day of April.Head of the representative office, Hoang Minh Tri, said Vietnam Airlines has already reopened the Ho Chi Minh City - Kuala Lumpur route with a weekly frequency of 11 flights, which will be increased to 14 flights from October 30.According to the official, flights between the Vietnamese central city of Da Nang and the Malaysian capital will be resumed in early September. There will be four flights per week at first and seven per week from October 30.Also starting October 30, the carrier will resume its operation of three flights a week on the Hanoi – Kuala Lumpur route.Many promotional programmes will be offered for Malaysian passengers, he added.The workshop was part of a series of events run by the airline across the world for its resumption of international flights and tourism promotion./.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has launched a video clip “Vietnam: Travel to Love! - Wonders of Vietnam to introduce beautiful destinations of Vietnam. The clip is expected to bring impressive and unforgettable experiences to visitors.The video, which lasts 1 minute and 31 seconds, offers viewers a brief tour of renowned places in Vietnam such as Ban Goc waterfall in Cao Bang province, Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex in Ninh Binh province, which is called “Ha Long Bay on land” with numerous caves, mountains, trees and historic relics, and the two UNESCO-recognised world cultural heritages of Hue ancient capital in Thua Thien-Hue province and My Son Sanctuary in Quang Nam province.In addition to admiring the beautiful natural scenery and exploring the country’s history and culture, visitors also enjoy lively and attractive activities at leading modern resort and entertainment facilities in Phu Quoc and Nha Trang cities.According to the Administration, the development of new and unique products and refreshment of existing ones will be a key factor in attracting tourists from all over the world in the context that the tourism industry is striving to recover quickly.The clip is part of a programme promoting Vietnamese tourism on YouTube, organised by the administration, with support from Vinpearl and Google.In the first six months of 2022, the tourism industry has served 60.8 million domestic visitors, up 1.9 times over the same period last year and 1.3 times over 2019’s figure, exceeding the target of 60 million for the whole year. The number of foreign visitors is also on the rise./.