Vietnam sees emerging signs of growth
HANOI – Viet Nam received some 315,000 foreign tourists last month, up 16 percent over the previous month but down eight per cent over the same period last year, according to the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism.
August’s increase lifted the total number of foreign arrivals to the country in the first eight months of the year to more than 2.4 million although this figure represented a17.7 per cent decrease over the same period last year.
Leading source markets were China (300,000), the US (293,000), South Korea and Japan.
Vu The Binh, of VNAT’s travel department said, though still declining, the rate of decrease of the number of foreign tourists to the country last month compared with the same period last year was slower than previous months thanks to a series of promotion campaigns including Impressive Vietnam in which all-in tours were discounted between January and September.
Tran The Dung, deputy head of the Domestic Tourism Stimulus Group in Ho Chi Minh City, said his group was negotiating with tour operators and travel agents in the central and northern provinces to introduce a discount of 40 per cent on tours instead of the current 35 per cent.
Dung said that since September, several tour operators and travel agents had agreed to accept an additional reduction of 5-10 per cent over August.
The group also recommended the administration asks Vietnam Airlines to continue its fare-discounting programme to the end of the year.
Vietnam Airlines earlier this year applied a 30 percent fare reduction to travel companies in a move to boost international travellers.
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