It is possible that this is the time of Vietnam tourism "catastrophic decline" in the past 5 years. With international arrivals consecutive decline in nearly a year, if no solutions synchronized, track, time, ... Travel Vietnam will "lag" no brakes, ...
It is true to Vu The Binh, Deputy Chairman of Vietnam Tourism Association in a conference on "The urgent measures to promote Vietnam's tourism development."
Traveling Vietnam are at a "Red Flags"
Information from Vietnam Tourism Association showed that the growth rate of international visitors to Vietnam in 2010-2015 of this sector on the decline. If in 2010, the growth rate reached 34.8% visitors, from 2011-2014, then began to decline: in 2011 grew by 19.1%; 2012 growth of 13.9%; Only 10.6% growth in 2013; 4% growth in 2014 and to 4 months of 2015, it dropped -12.8%.
Travel Vietnam is in a state of "red alert" (Photo: VTV).
Concerned by the situation, Vu The Binh, Deputy Chairman of Vietnam Tourism Association stressed: "If the month 5-6 / 2015, the number of international visitors to Vietnam continues to decline, it will be very dangerous for Vietnam tourism, because it involves the last 6 months dropped sharply, while the countries in the region continued to grow well, including Thailand which is influenced by political changes in a long time. We can see this is the dangerous growth of tourism in Vietnam, if no solution is urgent, coordinated, timely, ... to stop the momentum of this decline, the tourism in Vietnam will lag behind countries in the region and can not be restored, "Binh concerns.
Significantly, while international passenger traffic serious decline, domestic passenger growth is unsustainable Vietnam more consumers traveling abroad, this figure increased steadily each year by 10%. The Vietnam market tourists looking to are: South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Laos, China, Malaysia; Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, ... and some Western European markets.
Also Nearby Vietnam, the market was strong attraction of international tourists. Explaining the cause of this problem the experts said: "The markets have liberal visa policy, fast, affordable, professional service, they know how to promote their images with the world gender, ... so they were very successful, although their potential is not equal to our country. "
Analysis of the cause of international visitors to Vietnam in decline, experts say, in addition to regional instability and volatility of the USD rises, euro and yen falling, ... a cause making travel needs of visitors decreased.
Besides, strict visa policies and procedures cumbersome, ... is a major barrier in attracting international tourists to Vietnam. A more fundamental cause can not fail to mention the promotion, tourism promotion Vietnam lacks professional management loose, tight guillotine condition tourists still widespread, authorities not connected energy companies together to have the assistance of price, quality, service, ...
As long visa to attract international
To "rescue" Vietnam Tourism escape alert on, the industry experts share: Traveling Vietnam to resolve all outstanding issues on, application synchronization and timely solutions measures to solve, which is the key "bottleneck" visa: "No visa was confirmed as world leading solutions to attract customers. At present, Laos has exempted visas for 40 countries, 19 countries are exempt Cambodia, Singapore (visa waiver for 158 countries), the Philippines (157 countries), Malaysia (155 countries), Thailand (55 countries).
This open policy for the countries of the admirable results. With 28 million foreign tourists to visit in 2014, Malaysia has entered the top 10 countries with the largest number of tourists the world; Thailand also welcomed nearly 25 million visitors and Singapore also reached over 15 million passengers in 2014, while Vietnam had nearly 8 million visitors, "Binh said.
Through specific numbers on, obviously we are "lagging behind" in comparison with the world. And do not compare any distance, the speed of tourism development today we also lost all the water has a lower starting point than we like Laos and Cambodia. In 2000, Cambodia received more than 400 thousand new visitors, then after 14 years the number has increased 10 times (over 4.5 million). Laos also increased from over 700,000 to over 4 million passengers.
Back to issue visa, Vietnam now has opened visa for 7 markets, including 3 major markets are Japan, South Korea, Russia. And the very good results obtained in detail, from the opening (2004) to date, the total number of international tourists coming from this market grew 3 354%, much higher than the growth of international tourists is generally 269%.
In many seminars, conferences on tourism promotion Vu The Binh stressed and confirmed that visa-free is one of the important measures to promote tourism, and to make a selection, all the . In the immediate future, may choose to add a few key markets such as France, Germany, UK, Australia. Besides, the Government proposed visa fee waiver for all international visitors to Vietnam in 6 months (7/2015 to 12/2015).
According to experts, to create favorable conditions for visitors to Vietnam need a visa obtained directly deployed at the gate, like other countries in the region have adopted electronic visa policy for international visitors.
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