Vietnam targets measures to lure foreign visitors

Vietnam will focus on bolstering tourism promotion, expanding target markets, diversifying tourism products and improving quality of services to attract more visitors, a deputy tourist minister said Wednesday.

Under a draft tourism development plan by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), the country will buy tourism advertisement spots on international television channels, such as CNN and Discovery, and newspapers in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and China, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Tran Chien Thang told a press briefing in Hanoi .

Vietnam is projected to welcome more than 2.6 million foreign visitors in the first seven months of this year, marking a year-on-year increase of 10.6 percent, according to VNAT.

Thanhnien

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