Vietnam is a bright spot on the world tourism map.

At the World Travel Awards 2024, at the national level, Vietnam was honored in 3 award categories: "Asia's Leading Destination 2024", "Asia's Leading Heritage Destination 2024" and "Asia's Leading Nature Destination 2024".

World Travel Awards Chairman and Founder Graham Cooke presents the award trophy to the Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (Photo: TITC)

Respectfully presenting the above 3 prestigious awards to the Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism , Mr. Graham Cooke affirmed that Vietnam is not only a leading attractive tourist destination in Asia but also a potential tourism representative of the world. With a series of World Travel Awards achieved in recent years, Vietnam is a bright spot on the world tourism map, with strong development and transformation of tourism brands and products. The Chairman of World Travel Awards acknowledged the great efforts of the tourism industry to turn Vietnam into a world-class tourist destination, providing products and services to meet the needs of tourists from all over the world, bringing the tourism industry back stronger.

Expressing his gratitude to the President of World Travel Awards for presenting the award to Vietnam tourism, Director Nguyen Trung Khanh affirmed that World Travel Awards is a very prestigious award of the global tourism industry. The awards Vietnam has achieved show the love of the international community for Vietnam, honoring the special and unique values ​​of natural landscapes, people, culture, cuisine as well as outstanding destinations, products and tourism services of Vietnam.

Overview of the meeting (Photo: TITC)

Sharing about the tourism situation in Vietnam, the Director said that in the first 8 months of 2024, Vietnam welcomed 11.4 million international visitors, an increase of 45.8% over the same period in 2023 and an increase of 1.0% over the same period in 2019 - the time before the Covid-19 pandemic. Although August 2024 is still the low season, the number of international visitors still reached over 1.4 million, an increase of 17.7% over the same period last year, showing positive signals for the tourism industry. Most markets recorded growth, some of the leading markets sending visitors to Vietnam include Korea, China, the US, Japan, Australia...

Director Nguyen Trung Khanh hopes that in the coming time, Vietnam tourism will continue to receive attention from the World Travel Awards in particular and international partners in general to strengthen cooperation and promote Vietnam tourism to the world.

Director Nguyen Trung Khanh and Chairman and Founder of the World Travel Awards Graham Cooke with the Vietnam tourism award trophies (Photo: TITC)

At the World Travel Awards 2024, Vietnam was honored to receive 48 top awards in Asia, including 3 awards for the country: Asia's Leading Destination, Asia's Leading Heritage Destination, Asia's Leading Nature Destination (Photo: TITC)

According to Information Center, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism

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