At a conference on the tourism sector held in Hanoi on December 27, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh stressed that the sector in 2008 and the following years will focus on advertisement and market expansion.
Mr Tuan Anh said the sector will pay attention to developing tourist products as well as personnel training to meet customers’ requirements. It will also gather all resources available to improve entertainment facilities, particularly for community-based tourism development toward poverty reduction.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism announced an impressive record of 4.2 million foreign visitors in 2007, an increase of 17.2 percent over 2006.
China led the country’s top ten biggest markets with over 500,000 visitors, followed by the Republic of Korea (440,000), and the US (376,000). The number of visitors from Japan, Taiwan, Australia and France also increased.
In 2007, Vietnam became one of the 20 most favourite destinations selected by 30,000 readers worldwide of the Conde Nast Traveller magazine.
Vietnam’s tourism sector in 2007 received 47 investment projects capitalised at US$1.8 billion, a surge of 196 percent over last year. Since 1988, 235 foreign-invested projects have injected US$6.16 billion into the sector.
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