Scene at the Vietnam Tourism Award 2016 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – A ceremony will be organised on July 8in Hanoi to present the “Vietnam Tourism Award 2017” to businesses with thebest performances in 2016.
The most prestigious annual award of the sector, first heldin 1999, is set to take stage right after a meeting in celebration of VietnamTourism Day (July 9).
The schedule was announced at a press conference by theVietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in Hanoi on July 4, whichgave information on the sector’s performance in 2017’s first half and futureplans.
According to VNAT office chief Vu Quoc Tri, the number of foreigntourists to Vietnam in the first six months of 2017 was higher than in the sameperiod last year, with China and the Republic of Korea contributing the highestnumber of visitors to the country.
The domestic market recorded the most significant growth onthe April 40-May 1 holiday and in early summer, he added.
Vietnam was ranked 67th among 136 economies in the WorldEconomic Forum (WEF)’s recently released Travel & Tourism CompetitivenessIndex (TTCI) 2017, going up eight places compared to the ranking in 2015.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Tourism Department took the occasion tointroduce the 13th International Travel Expo HCM City, an annual internationaltourism fair among five Mekong basin countries – Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar,Thailand and Vietnam.
It is scheduled to run from July 7 to 9 and is expected to seethe number of international participants increase by 20 percent compared tolast year. -VNA
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