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On the morning of November 15, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the national online conference "Developing Vietnam's tourism rapidly and sustainably".
Also attending the conference was Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha.
Attending the meeting at Hai Duong province were comrade Trieu The Hung, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, along with leaders of departments, branches, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities, the Provincial Tourism Association and representatives of a number of tourism service businesses in the province.
Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that tourism is identified as a key economic sector, contributing significantly to job creation, people's livelihoods, poverty reduction, investment attraction, growth promotion and economic restructuring; preserving and promoting traditional, historical and cultural values of the nation, improving the material and spiritual life of the people; at the same time, it is a practical and effective international exchange bridge, for tourists from all over the world to visit, experience, understand more, share more, and love more the country, culture and people of Vietnam.
In recent times, the world situation has changed rapidly, with unusual difficulties and challenges, much more complicated than predicted. Meanwhile, Vietnam is a developing country, the economy is in transition, the scale of the economy is still modest, the starting point is low, the openness of the economy is high, the resilience and adaptability are limited, the inherent weaknesses of the economy have lasted for many years.
However, besides difficulties and challenges, we also have many opportunities and advantages. The problem is that we must find solutions to resolve difficulties, overcome challenges, and take advantage of opportunities and advantages to develop. The same goes for the tourism industry.
The Prime Minister emphasized that in order to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector, to achieve the goal of welcoming at least 35 million international visitors and 120 million domestic visitors by 2025; and 50 million international visitors and 160 million domestic visitors by 2030, Vietnamese tourism needs to truly innovate its thinking and approach with creative, innovative, synchronous and effective measures; to implement "close linkage, smooth coordination and comprehensive cooperation". Importantly, we must identify difficulties, challenges, opportunities and advantages, and must innovate our thinking, methodology and better approach.
In that spirit, the Prime Minister proposed that the conference exchange and discuss to find solutions to the questions that the tourism industry is facing and needs to implement in the coming time. That is, to identify the opportunities and challenges of Vietnam tourism in an objective and honest manner. Share your own successful experiences, the successes of countries around the world; good experiences, valuable lessons that we have gained in the process of tourism development.
Associations, businesses, researchers, experts and each ministry, sector and locality should discuss and propose specific and feasible solutions to remove difficulties, overcome challenges, take advantage of opportunities, and create favorable conditions for the rapid and sustainable development of Vietnam's tourism; in which, it is necessary to focus on clarifying: What institutional issues need to be resolved? What breakthroughs must be made in mechanisms and policies? What are the resource issues for developing infrastructure and tourism brands? Training human resources to meet new requirements? How should each tourism enterprise manage in accordance with new conditions? How should all levels and sectors coordinate with each other to create common strength? How should tourism enterprises and tourism-related enterprises such as transportation, tourism infrastructure development, accommodation facilities, etc. also coordinate?
According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, with the close direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, the coordination of ministries, branches and the efforts of the whole industry, tourism activities have gradually recovered, especially domestic tourism.
Data from Google's market trend tracking tool shows that international searches for Vietnam tourism have grown by about 50%-75%, the 4th highest growth rate in the world. According to the World Economic Forum's 2021 tourism competitiveness index, Vietnam ranked 52nd out of 117 economies, up 8 places compared to 2019. With 6/17 pillar indexes ranked among the world's leading, Vietnam is one of the 3 countries with the highest growth rate in this ranking index.
In the past 10 months, the number of international visitors to Vietnam reached more than 9.97 million, exceeding the 2023 plan; domestic visitors reached 98.7 million; total revenue from tourists reached 582.6 trillion VND.
By 2025, the tourism industry strives to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels. Vietnam becomes an attractive destination with high tourism development capacity globally. Striving to welcome 18 million international visitors; 130 million domestic visitors, maintaining a domestic visitor growth rate of 8-9%/year; directly contributing 6-8% to GDP; creating jobs for 5.5 million people, of which about 1.8 million are direct jobs.
By 2030, tourism will be a key economic sector, increasing its contribution to GDP, developing towards green growth. Vietnam will become an attractive destination, with the world's leading tourism development capacity, basically meeting the requirements and goals of sustainable development. Welcoming 35 million international visitors, with a growth rate of 13-15%/year; welcoming 160 million domestic visitors, with a growth rate of 4-5%/year; directly contributing 10-13% to GDP....
