At the Ly Thai To Square in downtown Hanoi (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The number of tourists to Hanoi in Mayreached 258,000, including 12,000 foreigners, a sign of recovery after thesocial distancing period due to COVID-19.
Most of the foreigners came to the capital for diplomatic orworking purposes.
The average occupation rate of local hotels was estimated at19.26 percent, up 6.46 percent from April.
Between January and May, Hanoi’s tourism sector earned over16.6 trillion VND (714.99 million USD), a deep reduction compared to the sameperiod last year. However, it was still an encouraging figure, as both thecountry’s and global economies have been impacted by the pandemic.
To boost the local market, tourism businesses have beenrequested to launch programmes to stimulate tourism demand, improve servicesquality, and apply more technological advances in management.
There are 3,499 tourist accommodation facilities with 60,782rooms in Hanoi. Among them, 66 hotels with 9,953 rooms have three to five starratings, and eight condotels with 1,534 rooms have four or five star ratings.
According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism,international tourist arrivals to Vietnam in the first five months of this yeartotalled 3.7 million while the number of domestic holidaymakers stood at 16million, down 50 percent and 58.5 percent, respectively, from the same periodlast year.
Revenue from tourism plunged over 47 percent to 150.3trillion VND (6.47 billion USD)./.
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