The Quang Ninh Tourism Agency has been working with its partners in
Japan and the Republic of Korea to establish tourism representative
offices in the two countries.
The offices will
promote Vietnam’s culture, economy and tourism, especially in the
province of Quang Ninh. They are scheduled to open later this year.
Recently, Quang Ninh and the International Culture Association WANOKAI
(Japan) have worked together on ways to spur tourism development.
The number of Japanese visitors to Vietnam
rises annually but the number of those returning to the country is still
low, Hamada-Kazuki, Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Japan noted at
the working session.
In another move, executives and
experts from the tourism industry met in Hanoi last month to seek ways
for the lucrative and fast-growing non-smoking industry to be more
successful.
At the conference, Vietnam National
Tourism Administration Chairman Nguyen Van Tuan called for the
establishment of Vietnamese tourism representative offices in Japan, the
Republic of Korea and Russia, which are among Vietnam’s key partner
markets.
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, and 12.3 million domestic
tourists.-VNA