The programme will gather representatives from the VNAT, international travel agents, airlines, hotels, and resorts.

The event, which is part of the VNAT’s National Tourism Promotion Programme for 2019, provides an opportunity for participants to introduce Vietnam’s tourist sites, products and services as well as the country’s updated policies on tourism to people and businesses in the host country.

The programme aims to advertise the land and people of Vietnam to international friends.

It aims to advertise the land and people of Vietnam to international friends and facilitate the cooperation between travel companies of the two countries.

Japan has been a key market for the Vietnamese tourism sector. In 2018, Vietnam welcomed around 826,000 Japanese travellers. The exchange of tourists between the two countries is predicted to reach 1.5 million arrivals by 2020.

Vietnam aims to serve about 18 million foreign visitors and 85 million domestic ones in 2019, and to earn more than VND 700 trillion (US$ 30.2 billion) from tourism revenue, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietjet Air offers 1.45 million promotional tickets

Vietjet Air is offering passengers 1.45 million super-saving tickets starting from zero dollars from April 17 to 19 to celebrate its newest international route from Ho Chi Minh City to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.

Trade promotion fair for cooperatives opens in HCM City

A trade promotion fair for cooperatives nationwide kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on April 17.

Tourism Fest features attractive promotions

A tourism fest themed “Summer Fun 2019” kicked off at September 23 Park, Ho Chi Minh City, on the evening of April 11.

Festival offers promotional tourism products

The first ever Promotion Tourism Festival - Travel Fest 2019, themed "Four-season tourism", officially opened at AEON Mall Long Bien in Hanoi on March 15.

VN to build plan for trade promotion in CLV development triangle area

Representatives of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have agreed to assign Vietnam to devise an action plan for effectively implementing the Agreement on Trade Promotion and Facilitation in the CLV Development Triangle Area, signed in 2016 in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Source: NDO