The Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is hosting a culture festival together with tourism seminars in the Republic of Korea (RoK) in effort to lure more visitors from the country.
Opened on July 1, the festival introduces Vietnam’s traditional and temporary arts and music, costumes, cuisine and handicraft products to Korean visitors.
Meanwhile, seminars seek to promote the country’s tourism potential and explore opportunities for linkages in the field.
These events are scheduled to close on July 6.
The RoK General Department of Tourism has rated Vietnam as a potential tourism market to its country.
In the meantime, there are 10 direct flights between Vietnam to the RoK a week, paving the wider way for win-win cooperation between the two countries’ tourism sectors.
At a conference in May in Hanoi for tourism industry executives and experts, Vietnam National Tourism Administration Chairman Nguyen Van Tuan called for the establishment of Vietnamese tourism representative offices in the RoK, as well as Japan and Russia, which are among Vietnam’s key partner markets, in a bid to spur the local tourism industry.
In the first quarter, Vietnam earned 53.5 trillion VND (about 2.5 billion USD) from tourism, about one third of the sector’s total revenue in 2012, statistics from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism show.
In the period, the sector welcomed 1.8 million foreign visitors, mostly from China, the Republic of Korea and Japan.-VNA
Đăng ký: VietNam News