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Various entities to be honoured at upcoming ASEAN Tourism Forum

Many Vietnamese entities will be honoured at this year’s ASEAN Tourism Awards in four out of the five categories, namely ASEAN Green Hotel Awards, ASEAN MICE Venue Awards, ASEAN Clean Tourist City Awards, and ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Awards, according to the organisers of the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2022.
Various entities to be honoured at upcoming ASEAN Tourism Forum ảnh 1“Live Fully in Vietnam” programme (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Many Vietnamese entities will be honoured at this year’sASEAN Tourism Awards in four out of the five categories, namely ASEAN GreenHotel Awards, ASEAN MICE Venue Awards, ASEAN Clean Tourist City Awards, and ASEANSustainable Tourism Awards, according to the organisers of the ASEAN TourismForum (ATF) 2022.

The prizes will be announced and presented within theframework of the forum to be held in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, fromJanuary 16 – 20, under the theme “a Community of Peace and Shared Future”.

It is the largest event within the ASEAN tourism cooperationframework. Vietnam will send a delegation to the forum.

Various entities to be honoured at upcoming ASEAN Tourism Forum ảnh 2ASEAN Tourism Forum 2022 to take place in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, from January 16 – 20 (Photo: organising board of the forum)
The forum will feature a series of major events, such as the25th ASEAN Tourism Ministers Meeting, the Tourism Ministers Meetings betweenASEAN and partner countries (China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, India andRussia), the International Travel Expo TRAVEX, and the ASEAN Tourism AwardCeremony.

Vietnam’s pavilion at TRAVEX 2022 will be themed “Live Fullyin Vietnam”, with the participation of popular tourist destinations, touroperators and luxurious hotels and resorts from the country.

The ATF was first organised in Kuala Lumpur in 1981. Theevent was hosted by Vietnam twice, in Hanoi in 2009 and in Quang Ninh in 2019.

According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism,ASEAN is one of Vietnam’s major sources of tourists. In 2019, tourist arrivalsfrom ASEAN totaled nearly 2.1 million, mostly from Thailand, Malaysia,Singapore and Cambodia. The figure accounted for about 11.6 percent of thetotal number of foreign visitors to Vietnam./.
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