The launch of direct air routes between India’s Mumbai and New Delhi and
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City by India’s Jet Airways, starting on November
5, will support the pair in tapping their respective enormous tourism
potential, said a Vietnamese diplomat.
Vietnamese Ambassador
to India Ton Sinh Thanh also suggested the opening of more routes
connecting the two countries’ major cities during an interview granted
to Vietnam News Agency correspondents in New Delhi on November 4.
He stated that the Vietnamese Embassy in India will join in the effort
to promote tourism with a plan to organise a workshop on November 24 to
connect travel agencies from the two countries and launch a series of
campaigns popularising Vietnam’s image in Indian cities in 2015.
Promoting tourism is a focus in the Embassy’s economic diplomatic
activities, the Ambassador affirmed, noting the time-honoured friendship
and the broadly growing strategic partnership could help both countries
explore their huge tourism advantages.
India’s large
population with 400-500 million people in the middle class, the
country’s increasing number of holiday-makers choosing overseas
destinations, and a rise in Vietnamese people making a pilgrimage to
Buddhist relic sites in India, should be tapped, he said.
Thanh
pledged that Indian media and travel companies will be fully supported
when making market and destination surveys in Vietnam.
In
addition, cultural exchanges and tourism information provision will be
accelerated for the two countries’ holiday-seekers, he said.-VNA