Many important tasks
Information at the press conference, Vu Quoc Tri, Chief of the Office of Tourism said that in 6 months, the tourism industry has carried out many important tasks when implementing solutions to maintain the growth rate of tourists. international and domestic calendar, meeting targets according to the growth scenario of the tourism industry in 2019.
Accordingly, the General Department has implemented solutions to maintain the growth of international and domestic tourists, meeting the targets under the growth scenario of Tourism in 2019; finalize and report to the Ministry and submit to the Prime Minister the project "Development strategy for Vietnam tourism until 2030, vision for 2050" and "Development of rural tourism associated with new rural construction"; host successfully organized the ASEAN ATF Tourism Forum 2019 with more than 50 events hosted or coordinated by Vietnam;
Tourism promotion activities in the past half-year period are also more proactive and professional. The highlight is the Travel Fair in Ha Long with 351 booths, 340 buyers, 640 sellers and 120 international guarantees; The promotion of the image of Vietnamese tourism at the US-Korea Summit is also impressive at home and abroad; Vietnam also participated in 6 international tourism fairs; organizing 8 roadshows in ASEAN countries, China, Russia, and Korea and opening the first tourism promotion representative office in Korea under a public-private partnership model;
In addition, the General Department of Tourism implemented 4 projects approved by the Prime Minister, which is the application of information technology in the field of tourism; restructure the tourism industry to meet development requirements into a key economic sector; improve the effectiveness of tourism promotion and promotion; tourism development support fund;
The work of state management in the field of travel, receiving the encouragement, tourism accommodation establishments has been strengthened and improved in effectiveness and efficiency; destination management, inspection, inspection, promotion of control, reorganizing the assurance of maintaining the quality of tourism services, limiting basic low-cost tour activities; support Cao Bang, Ha Tinh, Ninh Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Khanh Hoa localities to organize events to promote, promote tourism, build tourism products, and manage destinations.
In the first 6 months, the provinces / cities actively promoted investment and tourism promotion in the province, links in the region and with other provinces; many important infrastructure projects such as expressways, seaports, airports ... put into operation contribute positively to developing tourism; the initiative and efforts of associations and business communities in investment in technical and international facilities with international scale and standards in order to improve the quality of tourism services and diversify tourist products domestic and international tourist service.
However, in addition to the results achieved in the past time, there are also limitations that need to be addressed such as security, safety and environmental hygiene, which still have many shortcomings and garbage. Pollution discharges, accidents affecting the safety of tourists at tourist destinations also occur, especially on festivals and peak seasons of tourism; The sense of law observance of some organizations and individuals in tourism activities is not high.
Growth is more than double the global growth rate
According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, the total number of international visitors to Vietnam in the first 6 months of 2019 reached over 8.5 million visitors, an increase of 7.5% compared to the same period in 2018. The notable point is that there is a number of visitors. The number of tourists increased very high, as Thailand increased by 45.4% compared to the same period in 2018, reaching over 245,000 turns of people, being in the top 10 markets sending customers to Vietnam the most.
Mr. Dinh Ngoc Duc, Director of the Tourism Market Department, said that once he got this information, the Chief Representative of the Tourism Authority of Thailand sent a message to him, congratulating the Vietnam tourism industry. for achieving such high growth from the Thai market. It seems that there is a "wave" of Thai people traveling to Vietnam.
Mr. Duc said that it is necessary to continue to attract tourists from this market and other emerging ASEAN markets such as the Philippines and Indonesia; take advantage to exploit nearby markets, which are exempted from visas. At the same time, step by step balance the exchange of customers between Vietnam and Thailand.
Although the growth of international tourists in the past 6 months of Vietnam Tourism is not as high as the 20% increase of 2018, but the tourism industry is determined to achieve 17.5 to 18 million international visitors. And if this number is reached, it means that Vietnam’s tourism industry will finish one year ahead of the target of receiving 17-20 million international visitors by 2020 set out in Resolution 08 of the Politburo on development. tourism becomes a key economic sector.
According to the 2018 Annual Tourism Report that the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism announced, the forecasted growth rate of Vietnam Tourism in 2019 increased by 6.5 to 8.5% compared to 2018, double the level of The average growth of the world is 3-4% (according to the forecast of the World Tourism Organization) and higher than the increase of the Asia-Pacific region is 5-6%. Total revenue from tourists of our country is also forecast to increase by 10-12% compared to 2018, reaching VND 700 trillion.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism also stated that the number of tourists increased continuously in the last 3 years, from 7.9 million international visitors in 2015 to 15.5 million international visitors in 2018, making the capacity and capacity at some tourist centers are overloaded at some times, especially holidays and peak seasons of international and domestic tourists.
Tourists concentrate too crowded at some places, causing confusion, unsanitary, unsafe, not ensuring the quality of services; Uncontrolled price controls lead to negative impacts on Vietnam’s tourism image. In addition, the impetus to create new development areas are forming in key locations and neighboring destinations, may not immediately meet the requirements of continuing to grow at a high and sustainable pace. .
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the natural environment is polluted, the level of international opening and tourism service infrastructure in Vietnam is still limited compared to the development requirements. Policies, activities of tourism management and tourism promotion in Vietnam are not really flexible and effective, and the synchronous connection is not high.
Therefore, in the last 6 months of 2019, Tourism has developed a plan to synchronously implement solutions to attract international visitors; improve tourism business environment; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of destination management; improve national competitiveness and, in particular, raise the ranking position in the ranking of WEF competitiveness from 7 to 9 steps.
