Nearly 70 enterprises joined the tourism stimulus program next year, with tour operators, hotels, restaurants and shops offering discounts of 10-50 percent, according to Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, deputy director of the city’s Department of Tourism.
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The city welcomed 8.5 million international tourist arrivals this year. Photo: vietnamtourism.gov.vn |
The tour packages feature the city’s most popular attractions explored by car, motorbike, cyclo, bicycle, boat or on foot.
The program aims to celebrate major national holidays and lure more tourists to the city, Hoa said.
It is also part of efforts to promote the city as a friendly, safe and exciting tourist destination, she added.
A total of 88,000 tourists have been served this year under the city’s tourism stimulus program, with most of them foreign visitors.
The program’s turnover was estimated at 33 billion VND (1.42 million USD).
The city welcomed 8.5 million international tourist arrivals this year, a year-on-year increase of 14 percent.
The number of domestic visitors rose by 13 percent to reach 32.77 million this year.
Turnover from the tourism sector is estimated at 150 trillion VND (6.47 billion USD) this year, up 14.5 percent over last year.
Source: VNA