According to VNAT’s International Cooperation Department, in the last five years, Viet Nam tourism has gained many remarkable achievements and recorded 7.94 million int’l arrivals and 57 million domestic trippers in 2015. In the period 2011-2015, the average growth of int’l arrivals and domestic trippers were 5.7%/year and 16.3 %/year, respectively. Total tourism receipts in 2015 reached VND 337.8 thousand billions contributing 5% of GDP, the average growth over 25%/year.
The above results have exceeded targets set for 2015 in the Viet Nam tourism’s development strategy to 2020, vision 2030. However, 18,800 tourist accommodations with 355,000 rooms and tourism human resource of 1.78 million employees (including 555,000 tourism direct employees) have not reached the targets of the strategy for 2015.
In the recent years, Viet Nam tourism sector has received strong support of international organizations like the EU, JICA, AECID, Luxembourg, ADB, UNESCO, SNV, ILO, KTO… to build legal documents and tourism planning; to develop tourist products; to support tourism promotion and human resource training…
Many foreign investment projects have played an important role in supporting Viet Nam tourism development towards sustainability, and high quality, high competitive capacity, contributing to poverty alleviation.
In the coming time, Viet Nam tourism sector expects to receive more int’l supports including: enhancing institutional capacity and state management in tourism area focusing on revised tourism law, tourism integration in ASEAN and the world, and raising capacity of the tourism sector to cope with crisis, climate change, impacts of the world economy; developing tourist products which focuses on special tourism products of high competitive advantage, and responsible tourism development; constructing tourist infrastructure which focuses on building public tourist works and attracting major investors; developing tourism human resource which focuses on training foreign languages and e-marketing for tourism managers; applying information technology to effectively exploit e-marketing and software for tourism management; improving competitive capacity of tourism enterprises.
Besides above proposals, participants suggested that the MoCST and VNAT play an important role to direct and coordinate all donor programs to utilize the effectiveness.
Speaking at the meeting, Director General Nguyen Van Tuan expressed his pleasure that the parties had founded their cooperation opportunities in the coming time. He also highly appreciated the support of international donors to promote the development of Viet Nam Tourism in the past time.
In addition, Director General Nguyen Van Tuan also agreed to hold a large tourism forum (scheduled in May 2016) aiming to propose demands, solutions to call for financial and technical supports for the development of Viet Nam tourism in the new period.
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