Vietnam and Singapore cooperates in by-sea tourism

The Singaporean Tourism Department and businesses will visit Vietnam in the first quarter of 2010 to survey local potentials for maritime tourism, according to Vietnamese tourism officials.
This is the second survey to promote tourism cooperation between the two nations.
During the visit, Singaporean officials and businessmen will carry out investigations into the coastline between Nghe An and Da Nang, said Chief of Travel Office, Vu The Binh.
“Singapore will help Vietnam find out suitable locations to build tourist seaports and later back Vietnamese partners in running the tourist ports and attracting international tourists to Vietnam,” he noted.
Vietnam is seen as a nation with large potential for the development of sea tourism, yet visitors traveling to Vietnam by sea make up a small proportion, with less than 100,000 international tourists arriving in Vietnam by sea in 2009.