International tourists visit Hoan Kiem Lake. Photo: Minh Quyet/VNA
The general goal of the Plan by 2025 is that Vietnam will become an attractive destination with high tourism development capacity in the world. By 2030, tourism will truly become a spearhead economic sector, developing in the direction of green growth; becoming a destination with leading development capacity in the world. By 2025, strive to welcome 25 - 28 million international visitors . Specific goal: by 2025, strive to welcome 25 - 28 million international visitors; 130 million domestic visitors, maintaining a domestic visitor growth rate of 8 - 9%/year. By 2030, welcome 35 million international visitors, a growth rate of 13 - 15%/year; welcome 160 million domestic visitors, a domestic visitor growth rate of 4 - 5%/year. Strive to directly contribute 8 - 9% to GDP by 2025; By 2030, it will directly contribute 13-14% to GDP. Regarding the demand for accommodation rooms, in 2025, it will be about 1.3 million rooms; by 2030, it will be about 2 million rooms. According to the Plan, by 2025, tourism will create about 6.3 million jobs, of which about 2.1 million are direct jobs; by 2030, it will create about 10.5 million jobs, of which about 3.5 million are direct jobs. In terms of culture and society, tourism contributes to preserving and promoting cultural values, creating livelihoods for the community, contributing to the successful implementation of national target programs; improving people's knowledge and spiritual life. In terms of the environment, developing sustainable tourism associated with environmental protection; effectively responding to climate change. By 2030, 100% of tourist areas and spots; Tourist accommodation establishments and other coastal service businesses do not use disposable plastic products and hard-to-decompose nylon bags. Regarding security and defense, tourism contributes to affirming and protecting national territorial sovereignty , maintaining security, order and social safety. By 2045, tourism will affirm its role as a driving force of the economy; a prominent global destination, among the group of leading tourism developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Striving to welcome 70 million international visitors; total revenue from tourists reaching about 7,300 trillion VND; contributing 17 - 18% to GDP. Recovering and maintaining the growth momentum of the domestic tourist market
The rice painting "Shepherd playing the flute" at Ninh Binh Tourism Week 2024 with the theme "The golden color of Tam Coc - Trang An". Photo: Duc Phuong/VNA
For the domestic market, according to the Plan, in the period of 2021 - 2025, restore and maintain the growth momentum of the domestic tourist market. In the period of 2026 - 2030: Promote the exploitation of high-paying market segments, long-term stays, new markets for golf tourism, sports tourism, adventure tourism. For the international market, in the period of 2021 - 2025, restore traditional markets, combine with attracting emerging markets: India, Middle Eastern countries. In the period of 2026 - 2030: Maintain and expand the scale of traditional markets: Northeast Asian countries, Southeast Asian countries, Europe, North America, Russia and Eastern Europe, Oceania; diversify markets, shift towards increasing the market share of customers with high spending ability. Optimally exploiting marine and island tourism resources Regarding product development orientation, according to the Plan, marine and island tourism resources will be optimally exploited to develop tourism products that are competitive with other countries in the region in terms of marine resorts, marine ecology and cruise tourism. Developing high-end marine resort centers with strong brands in the international market. Promoting regional and local cultural values ​​as a foundation for building tourism products associated with heritage, festivals, sightseeing and learning about lifestyles and cuisine; connecting Vietnamese heritages with countries in the region and the world; effectively linking tourism with cultural industries. Developing eco-tourism products based on the advantages of natural resources, especially in world biosphere reserves, national parks, nature reserves and marine reserves; attaching importance to developing mangrove eco-tourism, garden eco-tourism, cave, river and lake eco-tourism. Developing tourism products associated with central cities: Hanoi Capital, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Can Tho; specific urban areas, such as: Hoi An Heritage City (Quang Nam), Hue (Thua Thien - Hue); key urban areas for tourism development, such as: Sa Pa (Lao Cai), Ha Long (Quang Ninh), Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa), Da Lat (Lam Dong), Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan), Phu Quoc (Kien Giang); focusing on linking tourism with cultural industry and developing the night-time economy. In addition, developing new types of tourism in the direction of diversifying products in line with new market trends: tourism combined with medical treatment, health care and aesthetics; agricultural and rural tourism; sports tourism, adventure sports; conference, seminar and event tourism (MICE); educational tourism; cruise tourism; industrial tourism. Developing specific and outstanding tourism products by region; Forming typical tourism products of the region and building a regional tourism brand on the basis of strengthening regional linkages. Forming 08 dynamic tourism development areas The Vietnam tourism space development plan includes: 6 regions, 3 growth poles, 8 dynamic areas, 5 main tourism corridors, 11 tourism centers; forming a system of national tourism areas and potential locations to develop into national tourism areas. Specifically, building and forming 8 dynamic tourism development areas to concentrate resources, maximize investment efficiency, spread, promote the benefits and values ​​of tourism. By 2030, focus on forming 6 dynamic areas: Dynamic tourism development area of ​​Hanoi - Hai Phong - Quang Ninh - Ninh Binh: Promoting tourism development in the Red River Delta region, more broadly the entire Northern region, linking diversely and complementing each other in terms of cultural and historical tourism products with sea tourism, world heritage. Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh tourism development driving force area: Create support in the direction of combining diverse tourism products associated with ecology, world heritage, historical culture, beliefs with sea tourism, source tourism, community tourism associated with ethnic minorities in mountainous areas. Quang Binh - Quang Tri - Thua Thien Hue - Da Nang - Quang Nam tourism development driving force area: Promote tourism development in the North Central and Central Coast regions; connect domestic and international world heritages, link cultural tourism products with urban tourism and beach resorts. Khanh Hoa - Lam Dong - Ninh Thuan - Binh Thuan tourism development driving force area: Promote tourism development on the basis of strengthening the connection between the North Central and Central Coast regions with the Central Highlands; diversify products on the basis of connecting mountain resort tourism with beach resorts, delta culture with the Central Highlands gong cultural space. Ho Chi Minh City - Ba Ria - Vung Tau tourism development driving area: Promote tourism development in the entire Southeast region, linking tourism development with the Southern economic corridor. Can Tho - Kien Giang - Ca Mau tourism development driving area: Promote tourism development in the entire Mekong Delta region, linking tourism development with the coastal economic corridor of the Southern economic corridor. After 2030, 2 driving areas will be formed: Lao Cai - Ha Giang tourism development driving area: Promote tourism development in the entire Northern Midlands and Mountains region, connecting with the tourist market in Yunnan (China) and linking tourism development along the Kunming - Hanoi - Hai Phong economic corridor. Dynamic tourism development area of ​​Hoa Binh - Son La - Dien Bien: Promote tourism development for the Northwest sub-region in the Northern Midlands and Mountains, linking tourism development along the East-West economic corridor along National Highway 6. Focus on key tourism markets and new markets . According to the Plan, priority will be given to budget support for market research activities, focusing on key tourism markets and new markets. Maintain market promotion activities for traditional international tourism markets. Improve the effectiveness of research and market promotion activities in a professional and modern direction; build a synchronous and complete national database system on tourism markets. Diversify and improve the quality of tourism products and services with local and regional characteristics. Develop entertainment products associated with the night-time economy and cultural industry, focusing on tourism centers. According to the Plan, standards will be developed and tourism human resources will be standardized; Announce and implement school standards to improve tourism training and development capacity, gradually integrating with regional vocational standards. Strengthen cooperation and linkage with prestigious domestic and international training institutions, between training institutions and tourism enterprises to develop tourism human resources, meeting the training needs of enterprises. Diversify training forms: Regular training and vocational training; supplementary training, short-term training; focus on supplementary training of new knowledge and skills and enhance training at enterprises, for the community participating in tourism business. Upgrade facilities, equipment, training programs, teaching staff, textbooks and teaching materials for tourism training institutions.
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