Vietnam’s tourism showing signs of recovery

The tourism sector has welcomed some 315,000 international tourists in August, up by nearly 16 per cent, according to statistics from the General Department of Tourism.
The number of international tourists to Vietnam in the first 8 months reached over 2.4 million, yet Vietnam’s tourism has so far suffered a year-on-year decline of 17.7 per cent.
China, the USA, South Korea and Japan are still major markets for Vietnam’s tourism. While the number of tourists from China has increased to 300,000, and was ranked first over the 8 past months, tourists from the USA and South Korea were 293,000 and 257,000, respectively.
According to tourism officials, the sector has launched a series of tourist promotion programmes since the beginning of the year against the backdrop of the global economic recession, via which many tourist products and services have been improved in quality and cut down in costs.
The programmes have more or less benefited the tourism sector and will hopefully bring even more profits to the sector, said officials.