More than 200 representatives from travel agents and hotels in the
central province of Thua Thien Hue are taking a training course on
Nov. 5 and 6 on how to improve service quality for Japanese tourists.
The course is co-organised by Vietnam National Administration
of Tourism (VNAT) and Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) to
help the province attract more tourists from Japan , which is the
fifth largest international market for the locality.
Experts
from JATA provided participants with valuable information about
characteristics of the Japanese tourism market and recommendations on
how to build a tourism trademark for the region.
VNAT officials outlined the orientation to attract more Japanese visitors to Vietnam in the coming time.
According to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism,
the number of foreign tourists will increase sharply from now towards
the end of the year. Besides Japan , the province will carry out
marketing and promotion activities targeting other markets such as the
UK , Thailand , and Cambodia .
In the first ten months of
this year, Thua Thien-Hue welcomed 2.39 million visitors, of them,
852,275 were foreigners, up 8.6 percent compared to the same period last
year.
The province hopes to receive 2.8- 3 million of visitors this year, including 1.2-1.3 million foreigners.-VNA