Hanoi, HCM City enjoys strong tourism growth in nine months

The total number of visitors to the capital in the reviewed period stood at an estimated VND21.12 million, up 11.7% on-year. This includes 4.45 million international tourists, up 40.8%, and 16,66 million domestic tourists, up 5.8% on-year.

As part of efforts to attract more international travelers, Hanoi’s tourism industry has ramped out tourism promotion activities by introducing destinations in five languages such as English, French, Chinese, Japanese, and the Republic of Korea.

Simultaneously, the capital has deployed a variety of forms of communication and digital platforms, making use of social networks like YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.

Many tourist destinations have set up electronic ticket systems in a bid to serve visitors, including the Temple of Literature (Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam), Thang Long Imperial Citadel, Hoa Lo Prison relic site, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, and Quan Thanh Temple.

Meanwhile, the number of international visitors to Ho Chi Minh City from January to September stood at over four million, representing an increase of 12.4% on-year, whilst domestic tourists reached 27.3 million domestic tourists, up 1.3%.

To achieve positive outcomes, the local industry has recently carried out a string of activities to promote the southern city’s destinations and typical tourism products, strengthen connectivity among tourism businesses, improve the overall quality of tourism services, and create diversity for tourism programmes to serve domestic and foreign tourists.

The municipal Department of Tourism has also issued a handbook on typical tourism products which can be found in Ho Chi Minh City.