Showing posts with label travel companies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel companies. Show all posts

Friday, December 31, 2010

Gov’t gives visa fee exemption for tourists

HCMC – Visa fees will be exempted for all international travelers coming to Vietnam as organized by international travel companies who have registered to join the national marketing campaign named Vietnam – Your Destination.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has just announced the Government decision, which offers visa fee exemption between now and the end of this year.

Vu The Binh, head of the Travel Department under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), told the Daily on Thursday that the tourism sector would have a good opportunity to woo more visitors to the country in the next three months because all of the country’s international travel companies were joining the marketing program.

“Along with the diplomatic channel, we will send the good information directly to overseas partners to encourage more foreign guests to come,” he said.

VNAT has reported that more than 383,000 foreign visitors visited the country in September, bringing the total number of foreign arrivals to over 3.73 million in the year to date, up 34.2% year on year.

The top ten markets of the country’s inbound tourism sector are China, South Korea, the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and France. Arrivals from these markets alone hit nearly 2.79 million, while arrivals from the remaining markets total 942.000.

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Vietnam seeks more German tourists

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The Vietnamese government has invested VND4 trillion in building infrastructure for the tourism industry, a Vietnamese tourism senior official said at a talk to promote Vietnam's image in Germany.

Nguyen Manh Cuong, Deputy Chief of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, met with representatives of travel companies owned by Germans and Vietnamese expats in Germany on August 29 and 30.

Introducing the country’s tourism potential, sightseeing wonders, and prominent tangible and intangible cultural heritages, Cuong also presented special programmes that the tourism industry launched on Hanoi’s 1,000 th founding anniversary.

He expressed his hope that tourism cooperation between German and Vietnamese travel companies would be boosted so Germany can eclipse France in terms of the number of tourists coming to Vietnam .

Present at the talks, Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Do Hoa Binh noted that the growing ties between the two countries have provided conditions for the development of bilateral cooperation in a wide range of fields, including tourism.

He pledged to create improved conditions for German travel companies to do business with Vietnam .

For their part, many participants urged the Vietnamese tourism industry to equip more tour guides with the German language, along with professional skills and rich cultural knowledge, in order to lure more German visitors.

In 2009, the Vietnamese tourism industry contributed US$5 billion to the State budget, generating jobs for 1.3 million people and helping to eradicate poverty.

 

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Monday, September 27, 2010

Vietnam seeks more German tourists

The Vietnamese government has invested 4 trillion VND in building
infrastructure for the tourism industry, a Vietnamese tourism senior
official said at a talk to promote Vietnam ’s image in Germany .


Nguyen Manh Cuong, Deputy Chief of the Vietnam National Administration
of Tourism, met with representatives of travel companies owned by
Germans and Vietnamese expats in Germany on August 29 and 30.


Introducing
the country’s tourism potential, sightseeing wonders, and prominent
tangible and intangible cultural heritages, Cuong also presented special
programmes that the tourism industry launched on Hanoi ’s 1,000 th
founding anniversary.


He expressed his hope that tourism
cooperation between German and Vietnamese travel companies would be
boosted so Germany can eclipse France in terms of the number of
tourists coming to Vietnam .


Present at the talks, Vietnamese
Ambassador to Germany Do Hoa Binh noted that the growing ties between
the two countries have provided conditions for the development of
bilateral cooperation in a wide range of fields, including tourism.


He pledged to create improved conditions for German travel companies to do business with Vietnam .


For
their part, many participants urged the Vietnamese tourism industry to
equip more tour guides with the German language, along with professional
skills and rich cultural knowledge, in order to lure more German
visitors.


In 2009, the Vietnamese tourism industry contributed 5
billion USD to the State budget, generating jobs for 1.3 million people
and helping to eradicate poverty./.

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