In December, Vietnam will work with Thailand to develop a plan to set up a 'tourist bubble'.
On the morning of November 30, at the forum "Solutions for sustainable recovery of Vietnam's tourism", the Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, Nguyen Trung Khanh, said that Thailand was very successful in welcoming international visitors amid the Covid-19 pandemic. 19 with Sandbox Phuket model and expanding nationwide.
Mr. Khanh said that Vietnam Tourism has a roadmap to work with Thailand to develop together in the coming time. In the immediate future, in December, Vietnam will welcome the first group of Thai tourists back under the vaccine passport program.
The first international tourists visit Hoi An ancient town (Quang Nam) on November 20. Photo: Duy Hau
Earlier in the forum, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Ky, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vietravel Holdings, shared that international visitors to Vietnam are a good sign, but the number of visitors in November is not enough to tourism recovery. He proposed the industry to set up a tourism bubble to create a corridor with ASEAN countries. As for the tourist market in countries in Northeast Asia, the most potential is Korea and Japan, so the tourism industry should focus on deploying in this market. Potential Russian guests, but this year's winter peak season has passed.
Mr. Pham Ha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lux Group, a unit specializing in welcoming international guests, shared that the opportunity to welcome guests from other countries is the same, so it can be seen that Thailand has a 4-step roadmap from October 2020 that is taking over the world. more advantage. In Vietnam, many businesses have skipped the first phase and are ready for the second stage of welcoming international visitors to the European market.
In less than 3 weeks of opening the door to international tourism under the passport vaccine pilot program, our country welcomed 978 visitors to Quang Nam, Khanh Hoa, and Phu Quoc. This is a good sign in the recovery of tourism under new normal conditions and proves that our country is a favorite and attractive destination for tourists.
It is expected that by the end of 2021, Da Nang will welcome 11,500 international visitors, Khanh Hoa 9,400 and Phu Quoc (Kien Giang) 3,500. In 2022, in the face of a complicated Covid-19 situation, the tourism industry is expected to take important steps to recover, on the basis of perfecting the plan to ensure Covid-19 safety in serving guests. .
The first international delegation returned to Phu Quoc.
From March 2020 to now, Vietnam has experienced 4 outbreaks of Covid-19. The whole country received only 3.8 million international visitors (mainly in the first 3 months of 2020), down 80% compared to 2019, domestic tourists decreased by 50%, and the whole tourism industry lost about 530 trillion VND. From November 17, our country welcomed the first international delegations, according to charter flights from Korea and Japan.
