Support centers to be set up to protect tourists – Tours

Support centers to be set up to protect tourists – Tours – Travel

The Hanoitimes – The Government has tasked the provincial People’s Committees to coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to set up tourist support centers.

The move aims to protect tourists in a bid to improve the tourism environment in Viet Nam.

The Government also asked the Ministry of Public Security to coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Home Affairs to study the project on establishment of tourist police force and submit it to the Prime Minister for approval in the 4^th quarter.

The country had welcomed 6.847 million foreign tourists in 2012, an increase of 11%, 32.5 million domestic travelers, an increase of 8%, and obtained the turnover of VND160 trillion, up 23% over 2011.

The figures, according to VNAT, show that Viet Nam still made encouraging results in a very tough year 2012. The watchdog agency hopes to receive 7.2 million foreign and 35 million domestic travelers this year, which would bring the total revenue of VND190 trillion, or nearly $10 billion.

In early March 2013, Viet Nam was recognized by Go Asia as the second most popular destination in Asia (Go Asia is an association in Germany with 3,000 members in the tourism sector).

Prior to that, Viet Nam was listed among the most 10 attractive destinations in 2013 by iWantSun, the leading tourism website in the UK.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has drawn up a tourism promotion program for 2013, offering a lot of preferences to travel firms to help advertise Viet Nam as a good destination and attract more tourists.

The ministry has also proposed the Prime Minister to cut down 50 percent of VAT and exempt from the corporate income tax for travel firms, hotels and carriers in 2013.

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