Number of tourists to Vietnam sharply decreases

Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in coordination with Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a conference titled “How to improve travel enterprises’ competition capacity in global financial crisis” at Rex Hotel in HCMC on September 11th.
During the conference, representatives from the Center for Strategic Research under the Asia-Pacific Tourism Association and several travel businesses from other countries discussed various measures to popularise their marketing strategies aimed at minimising the decrease in the number of tourists to the Asian markets.
From the beginning of this year up to now, the number of tourists coming to Asian countries in general and Vietnam in particular decreased by 20% compared to the same period last year.