Vietnam’s tourist hub Ho Chi Minh City ranked fifth on the list of 10 most viewed cities on social media platform TikTok with 32.6 million hits.

Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in front of HCMC's City Hall, May 2020.

New York topped the list with 114 million views, followed by Seoul (106.5 million), Dubai (62.7 million) and Jakarta (37.1 million), leading American media company Refinery29 reported, citing a new study carried out by U.K.-based branded clothing company Superdry by analyzing #travel and various related hashtags on TikTok videos.

The rest of the top 10 were Paris, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Bogota and Melbourne.

HCMC, famed for its French colonial heritages, received over 8.6 million foreign visitors in 2019, up 13 percent from a year prior. After over four months of closure, the city, now a Covid epicenter in Vietnam, plans to reopen tourist destinations, hotels and resorts from early October as part of its gradual economic reopening roadmap.

Vietnam also ranked sixth on the list of 10 most viewed countries on TikTok with 107 million hits behind Japan, Russia, Mexico, the U.S. and China.

Foreign arrivals to Vietnam slumped from 18 million in 2019, when tourism revenue was $31 billion, or nearly 12 percent of its gross domestic product, to 3.8 million last year due to Covid impacts.

Yen Dung develops tourism in connection with culture preservation

(BGO) – To gradually make tourism become local economic sector, Yen Dung district (Bac Giang province) defines to develop three major tourism products of spiritual – cultural tourism; ecotourism – resort; entertainment, leisure, sports and other ones with deep traditional cultural identities in the area.

World-class complexes help Vietnam establish itself in global tourism

Across Vietnam, major entertainment complexes like Sun World Ba Na Hills, Sun World Hon Thom Nature Park, and Sun World Ha Long Complex have attracted millions of visitors, helping the country be known in the global entertainment map.

Bac Giang to build 606 ha tourism urban area and golf course on Nham Bien mountain

(BGO) – The Nham Bien mountain range (Bac Giang province) will be zoned off as the sport and tourism service, golf course and resort, ecotourism and urban residential area with total planning area of 606 ha.

Son Dong invests to build road to Khe Ro ecotourism site

(BGO) – To recover the travel difficulties due to degraded road, minimize traffic accident and gradually complete traffic network to serve local socio economic development, especially ecotourism sites, Son Dong district (Bac Giang province) has invested to revamp and upgrade the road from national road No.31 to Khe Ro ecotourism site in An Lac commune.

Vietnam aims among world’s top 50 countries with highest tourism competitiveness

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung recently signed a decision to promulgate the ‘Action programme on tourism development for the 2021-2025 period’.

Source: VnExpress