The Vietnamese tourism sector is approaching to the target of welcoming 17.5 -18 million international visitors and serving 85 million domestic tourists in 2019, while earning an estimated total revenue of VND700 trillion (nearly 30.1 billion USD).

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has said the agency has coordinated with many others to successfully organise the programmes promoting Vietnamese tourism in Tokyo city as well as Kanagawa and Hokkaido provinces in Japan. Following Japan, Vietnam will continue to attend the 2019 China-ASEAN Expo Tourism Exhibition from October 18-20 in Guilin, China. The tourism promotion events are positive activities aimed to attract more foreign tourists from potential markets, including China, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Europe, to fulfil the goal for 2019. The agency also announced that the country has jumped from 67th to 63rd position in the recent Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index released by the World Economic Forum.-VNA