The lifting of Covid travel restrictions in major markets such as South Korea, Taiwan and Japan is helping foster a recovery in international aviation.

Passengers at a check-in counter at Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCMC, January 2023.

There were a total of 56.8 million air passengers in Vietnam in the January-June period, a 29% year-on-year increase, according to the Airport Corporation of Vietnam.

With tourism gradually picking up steam, Vietnamese airlines have been scrambling to launch direct flights to major markets such as South Korea, Japan, India, and Australia.

In 2019, the year before Covid, Vietnamese airports handled a record 119 million passengers, including 41.7 million foreigners.

UNESCO geopark Dong Van Plateau to collect fees from tourists for overnight stay

Authorities in the northern mountain province of Ha Giang plan to charge visitors a fee for staying overnight on the Dong Van karst plateau, a UNESCO global geopark.

Search volume for Vietnam’s tourism ranks 7th worldwide

The search volume for Vietnam's tourism via Google's market trend tracking tool grew 10%-25% between mid-March and early June, ranking 7th in the world and indicating a strong demand recovery.

OCOP-based tourism yields new development spaces for rural areas

The “One Commune-One Product” (OCOP) programme and another on rural tourism in new-style rural area building for 2021-2025 have helped spur economic development in rural areas.

Efforts made to make tourism in the land of Phoenix take off

(BGO) - This term, Yen Dung district is determined to develop three types of tourism, including culture-spirituality; eco-resort; entertainment-sports and other tourism products imbued with the local traditional cultural identity.

Yen The creates highlight in tourism

(BGO) – The Resolution of Yen The district Party Congress (Bac Giang province) in 2020-2025 tenure worked out the policy to promote the development of historical - cultural - spiritual, ecological and community tourism. The picture of Yen The tourism has had positive change thanks to the effective methods.

Source: VnExpress