Striving to welcome at least 25 million international tourists by 2025

Resolution 226/NQ-CP takes effect from August 5, 2025, replacing Resolution No. 25/NQ-CP dated February 5, 2025 on growth targets for industries, sectors and localities to ensure the national growth target in 2025 reaches 8% or more.

Resolution 226/NQ-CP clearly states: In order to achieve the growth target of 8% or more in 2025 as directed by the Central Committee, Resolution No. 192/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly, creating a foundation for growth in 2026 to reach 10% or more, the Government requests Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to continue to promote the spirit of responsibility, solidarity, unity, and consensus, focus on thoroughly grasping and implementing more synchronously, comprehensively, and effectively the Resolutions, Conclusions, and directions of the Central Committee, the Politburo , the Secretariat, the General Secretary and key leaders, of the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, and the Resolutions of the Government on the monthly regular Government meetings; Take advantage of opportunities and advantages, especially the effectiveness of newly issued policies and solutions and the organization of two-level local governments, exploit new development space, and make the greatest effort to promote higher growth in the third quarter, fourth quarter and the whole year of 2025.

The Government sets the main goals and guiding principles as follows:

Vietnam welcomes 12.23 million international visitors in 7 months

Continue to prioritize promoting growth associated with maintaining macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, ensuring major balances of the economy, budget deficit, public debt, government debt, and national foreign debt within the scope permitted by the National Assembly; strive for a GDP growth rate of 8.3 - 8.5% in 2025; an average consumer price index (CPI) growth rate of less than 4.5% in 2025; total social investment in 2025 to increase by 11 - 12%; mobilize and implement social investment capital in the last 6 months of the year of about 2.8 million billion VND; continue to improve and enhance the material and spiritual life of the people.

Closely monitor, grasp the situation, coordinate closely, synchronously, comprehensively and effectively implement the tasks and solutions set out in this Resolution; promote the spirit of solidarity and unity in direction and management; have innovative and breakthrough thinking, look far and wide, think deeply and do big things, have high determination, make great efforts, act decisively, have a focus, key points, and finish each job. Organize and implement seriously and substantially with the spirit of "6 clear": clear people, clear work, clear time, clear responsibility, clear products, clear authority. Uphold the spirit of responsibility, serve the people, focus on directing the timely and effective resolution of issues and legitimate recommendations of people and businesses.

The Government's Resolution also clearly states the main tasks and solutions for the coming time. In particular, The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and localities should promote tourism, develop diverse and high-quality tourism products for each tourist season and key areas, effectively exploit international and domestic tourist seasons, enhance experiences and increase average spending of tourists, strive to reach at least 25 million international tourists and 150 million domestic tourists for the whole year; strengthen inspection and management of the market, prices of accommodation services, food and beverage, food hygiene and safety, especially in key tourist areas; strengthen linkages in tourism development, combine tourism with consumption of OCOP products and local specialties.

The Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to their assigned functions and tasks, shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to develop a convenient and flexible visa policy for tourists and improve visa approval procedures for tourists entering Vietnam.

The Government requests ministries, agencies and localities, based on the results of the implementation of growth targets of sectors and fields in the first 6 months of the year, the ability to mobilize resources, the driving forces and development space in the last 6 months of the year, to urgently develop growth scenarios with solutions of sectors and fields for the remaining months and quarters of the year to strive to achieve and exceed the targets in Appendix II of this Resolution.

Regarding the GRDP growth target, localities direct specialized agencies to closely coordinate with statistical agencies, based on estimated GRDP data for the first 6 months of the year, the ability to mobilize resources, driving forces, and development space in the last 6 months of the year, to urgently review and develop GRDP growth scenarios by economic sector and product tax minus product subsidies and by level 1 industry for the remaining quarters of the year, along with solutions to strive to achieve and exceed the targets in Appendix III of this Resolution.

Ministries, agencies and localities shall send the Ministry of Finance scenarios for implementing growth according to assigned targets before August 15, 2025 for synthesis and monitoring.

Ministries, agencies and localities shall proactively carry out tasks and solutions within their authority and study and propose specific mechanisms, policies, tasks and solutions in cases exceeding their authority, and send them to the Ministry of Finance for synthesis and reporting to the Government and the Prime Minister in order to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles, promote growth, complete the assigned targets in this Resolution and strive to exceed targets in more favorable conditions.

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/phan-dau-don-it-nhat-25-trieu-luot-khach-du-lich-quoc-te-nam-2025-20250806142131546.htm