Hanoi tourism industry urged to speed up plan to lure domestic visitors
The city’s travel companies and authorities have initiated many stimulus packages to revive this vital industry.
Hanoi’s Department of Tourism has been requested to urgently develop an overall plan to stimulate domestic travel, taking advantage of the containment of the pandemic to revive the tourism industry.
The city’s Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung addresses the online monthly meeting on May 29. |
At a monthly meeting of the municipal People’s Committee on May 29, Chairman of the committee Nguyen Duc Chung said the municipal Department of Tourism has not put forth any plan to revive the city’s travel industry while domestic air services have been resumed.
At the meeting, Chung also requested the Department of Culture and Sports to organize street cultural activities and cooperate with other provinces to jointly host promotional events as well as monitor works for the upcoming regional SEA Games 31, to be held in autumn 2021.
On the same day, at a tourism promotion conference held by Khanh Hoa province in Hanoi, Director of Hanoi's Department of Tourism Tran Duc Hai said that the sector has tap into information technology for travel promotion such as posting stimulus packages on websites and encouraging tour operators to use online applications.
Hanoi will focus on building typical tourist packages, among which the highlight is the “Thang Long Tu Tran” (Hanoi’s four sacred temples) tour in the inner city, organizing visits to craft villages and eco-tourism in suburban areas.
The tourism promotion conference held by Khanh Hoa province on May 29 in Hanoi. Photo: Hanoimoi Newspaper |
Deputy General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Ngo Hoai Chung emphasized at the conference that with a sizable population of eight million and a huge tourism demand, Hanoi is a key and potential market for all other provinces and cities.
The VNAT will continue to promote many tourism promotion activities of other localities in Hanoi and vice versa.
Hanoi has targeted to welcome 10-11 million domestic tourists in the remaining months of 2020, higher than the same period of 2019. However, the target seems to be ambitious.
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