International tourism forecast to recover strongly in Vietnam in 2022
The number of international searches on Vietnam tourism is increasing, which is considered a positive sign for the industry in efforts to revive and regain growth momentum.
Foreigners take a photo at the Nguyễn Huệ Flower Street Festival in HCM City, which opened during the 2022 Lunar New Year.
Analytical data from Google Destination Insights shows that searches began rising from early December and skyrocketed later the same month and in early January.
From the beginning of last month, the volume of international searches for Vietnam’s aviation remained high. The increase rate hit 425 per cent on January 21, and 374 per cent on February 3 against the same period in 2021.
The search volume for accommodation also started to increase from the beginning of December.
People from such countries as the US, Australia, Russia, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, India, the UK and Canada made the most searches for information about tourism in Vietnam.
The 10 destinations in Vietnam that draw the most interest of foreigners are Hanoi, HCM City, Nha Trang, Phú Quốc Island, Phan Thiết, Đà Nẵng, Hội An, Đà Lạt, Quy Nhơn, and Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu.
Experts attributed the upward trend to Vietnam’s launch of a pilot vaccine passport programme to welcome foreign tourists back to Nha Trang (Khánh Hoà Province), Phú Quốc (Kiên Giang), Quảng Nam, Quảng Ninh, and Đà Nẵng City, and a communications campaign named “Live fully in Vietnam.”
The country is set to fully reopen to international tourism after March 2022, once the country has completed its COVID-19 booster shot campaign, about two years after Vietnam closed its border to most foreign arrivals.
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