Workshop 'Open visa, restore tourism' is about to start

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The workshop was attended by leaders of competent State agencies such as the General Department of Tourism; Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam; Immigration Department; leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism; experts Dr. Pham Trung Luong - former Deputy Director of the Institute for Tourism Development Research; Dr. Luong Hoai Nam, Member of the Tourism Advisory Council and leading tourism enterprises such as the Inter-Pacific Group; Sun Group; Vietnam Airlines ; Vietjet Air; Vietravel Corporation; Saigontourist Travel Service Company....

The goal of the workshop is to dissect the causes and propose solutions to accelerate tourism , especially in the new context, China officially put Vietnam on the pilot list to open group tourism in the second phase. With this move from the largest tourist market, the tourism industry expects to receive a boost to confidently achieve the goal of welcoming 8 million international visitors in 2023.

Previously, as one of the first countries in Southeast Asia to reopen after the Covid-19 pandemic, Vietnam had a low tourism recovery rate compared to other countries.

According to VisaGuide.World, announced at the end of 2022, Vietnam's tourism recovery rate is only 18.1%, while neighboring countries such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia or Cambodia all have rates from 26 to 31%.

International tourists need to be opened wider to enter Vietnam.

There are many reasons for this situation, among which, visa policy is considered an important reason why Vietnam opened early but international visitors are less than neighboring countries such as Thailand or Indonesia. Specifically, in 2022, we set a target of attracting 5 million international visitors but only reached 3.5 million. In 2023, Vietnam plans to attract 8 million international tourists but this number is facing great challenges as China is slow to bring Vietnam into the 20 countries that issue group visas and is facing fierce competition with neighboring countries.

Meanwhile, international visitors are the market segment that contributes the most to the revenue structure of the tourism industry. Evidence is that in the 3 years before the Covid-19 pandemic, the average number of international visitors to Vietnam was only 1/5 of domestic visitors but contributed about 58% of total revenue from tourists. In 2019, total revenue from international tourists accounted for 18.3 billion USD out of the total revenue of 32.8 billion USD generated by the entire tourism industry.

During the 2023 Lunar New Year, domestic visitors increased by nearly 50% but total tourism revenue decreased by 30%... These figures show that international visitors play an extremely important role in the recovery of Vietnam's tourism today.

Previously, Thanh Nien Newspaper successfully organized many seminars and talks... related to hot current issues taking place in the market with the participation of government representatives, professional social organizations, leading economic experts in Vietnam and domestic and foreign enterprises.

The workshop "Opening visas, restoring tourism" taking place at Thanh Nien Newspaper headquarters (268 - 270 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vo Thi Sau ward, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City) will take place within the next 20 minutes.

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