Travel fair helps to kick-start Vietnam’s tourism sector

HANOI (Vietnam News Community): The annual Vietnam Intercontinental Vacation Mart (VITM) 2022 opened in downtown Hanoi on Thursday (March 31), attracting thousands of travel enthusiasts searching for promotions.

This 12 months, as the borders have reopened for international tourism, the topic of the good is: “New Ordinary – New Chance for Vietnam’s Tourism”.

The occasion is a continuation of a collection of gatherings hosted by the Vietam Tourism Affiliation, such as the Countrywide Vacation Forum on Jan 21 the Nationwide Domestic Journey Tourism Forum on April 15, 2021 and the Sustainable Recovery for Vietnam’s Tourism Discussion board on Nov 30, 2021.

Addressing the opening ceremony on Wednesday, Cao Thị Ngọc Lan, deputy director and common secretary of the Vietnam Tourism Association (VITA), pointed out that while VITM Hanoi has been an annual celebration, this 12 months, it has extra significance.

“The fair marks a new interval of the tourism sector – a period for recovery and enhancement in the ‘new usual context’, a interval that the sector starts to alter into a ‘green’ and ‘digital’ economy,” she pressured.

Irrespective of several hardships right after two several years of the pandemic, a lot more than 500 enterprises from 52 provinces and towns close to Vietnam, as properly as from 6 other countries and territories, have joined the function. A lot more than 2,000 enterprises and more than 40,000 persons are expected to go to in advance of the event closes on April 3.

“During the 4-working day function, VITA and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will host a variety of functions, primarily the countrywide discussion board titled ‘Vietnam Tourism Recovery – New Orientation, New Actions’, exactly where gurus will explore urgent options for domestic enterprises to modify their actions in a safer route to safe an environmental and electronic changeover,” she explained.

A series of workshops and press conferences on tourism human assets, new products, new places and promotion functions will consider position.

Deputy culture and tourism minister Đoàn Văn Việt advised the involved businesses must fork out a lot more attention to bettering specialized facilities for the sector, investing in new products and solutions, new places and new air routes to meet up with the new needs and tendencies following the pandemic, primarily improving the good quality of human methods and encouraging start-ups in the area.

The official also prompt tourism enterprises evaluate shopper marketplaces right after the pandemic, especially worldwide shoppers endorse PR actions in qualified markets using digital technologies in this endeavor.

“Enterprises and localities will further co-ordinate to actively be a part of in the world worth chain, pretty competing in get to increase the competitiveness of Vietnamese tourism in the world’s tourism map,” he reported.

The party has attracted numerous site visitors with distinct purposes.

Wandering close to the reasonable, elderly Phí Thị Liên Châu and her two close friends in some cases stopped at the booth of organizations and localities that caught their eye.

“I am trying to get an affordable tour to Phú Quốc for me and my previous superior college classmates,” she told Vietnam News.

“The pandemic is above and we would like to acquire to chill out and reminisce on our old times. Last time we acquired a very good voucher for lodges, which lower the price tag by half.

“We are retired and not several of us can afford substantial charges. So these a truthful is beneficial to us.”

As opposed to Châu, Dr Bùi Văn Vương is browsing the fair for the first time.

“I read about the occasion a couple of times ago and I’m curious to see what is below,” he stated. “I’m preparing for a getaway with my family members to refresh following Covid lockdown. I hope to obtain some new excursions and new places, though I have been travelling during the country a great deal.”

Nguyễn Hoài Thu, deputy director of Saigontourist’s Hanoi branch, stated the corporation delivers in excess of 60 bundle items in coordination with 18 other transportation companions.

“This is a prospect for the company to affirm the energy of our inbound and outbound goods,” she said.

“Our tours will depart from April to September this year and we will receive overseas guesses from September to December.

“Our products and solutions are diversified in forms in the course of the region at different rate ranges specially tours with Vietnam Airlines. Several folks arrive here to request about our excursions to Dubai in mid-April. We offer you prestigious tour support with complete tourism insurance plan procedures for prospects travelling abroad.”

Uchida Shusuke, deputy head agent of the Japan Tourism Promotion Company, explained: “It has been just about two a long time since the hottest occasion, exactly where we can introduce our hospitality, lifestyle and locations to Vietnamese people today.

“Though Japan has not opened to tourists however, we hope to welcome Vietnamese men and women shortly.”

Shusuke mentioned the booth introduces countrywide activities and regional delicacies, these kinds of as seafood.

Lee Jae Hoon, director of the Korea Tourism Organisation in Việt Nam, appreciated the annual reasonable as it presents travelers a probability to vacation and promote global destinations to Vietnamese people today when the pandemic is below command.

He explained in 2019 the range of Vietnamese folks visiting South Korea increased considerably to 550,000 folks, although some 4.3 million website visitors from South Korea came to Vietnam.

In 2022, it is hoped that 20-40 per cent of the variety of Vietnamese individuals recorded in 2019 will take a look at South Korea.

The company delivers numerous activities at this truthful, like the opportunity to wear a regular hanbok, participate in people game titles showcased in the well-known Squid Game sequence and make regular handmade solutions.

Lee said in this calendar year marks the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties among the two countries. The organisation will host a lot of much more events all over the 12 months like South Korean Times in Hà Nội and other tourism-themed gatherings.

The organisation will assists providers to give specific promotions to Vietnamese travelers and will attempt to relieve visa and quarantine insurance policies for site visitors from Vietnam.

The honest will shut on April 3.