Capital welcomes 1.27 million foreign guests in first 11 months
VGP - In the first eleven months of 2022, about 17 million visitors visited Ha Noi, up five times from the same period last year, according to the municipal Tourism Department.
Foreign visitors at Hoan Kiem Lake in Ha Noi - Illustration photo
The above figure includes 1.27 million international tourists and 15.75 million domestic arrivals. Tourism revenue is estimated at VND48.35 trillion (US$1.9 billion), increasing five times on year.
In November alone, the Capital received 1.61 million visitors, including 1.35 million from other localities nationwide and 255,000 foreigners, and earned VND4.39 trillion (US$176 million) from tourism, five times higher than the same period last year.
Notably, the total number of international visitors to Ha Noi in 11 months reached 1.27 million, fulfilling the target set for the whole year of 2022.
The average room occupancy rate in November is estimated at 36.1 percent, an increase of 14.7 percent over the same period in 2021.
Key tourism promotion programs
The result comes from the fact that Ha Noi has taken advantage of tourism opportunities such as the 31st SEA Games, organized a series of events to stimulate demand and promote tourism such as the Ha Noi Tourism Program to welcome 2022, Ha Hoi Tourism Gift Festival 2022, Ha Noi International Tourism Fair 2022, Ha Noi Food and Handicraft Village Tourism Festival, among others.
Besides, the city's tourism sector has deployed many tourism products to attract visitors, including night tour at Hoa Lo Prison relic, Thang Long Imperial Citadel; the northern highland market program of the Ethnic Culture and Tourism Village of Vietnam; activities at Bao Son Paradise Park; double-decker bus tour "Ha Noi City Tour"; walking tour "French architecture in the heart of Ha Noi."
In December the Ha Noi Ao Dai Festival 2022 and a contest to select Ha Noi Tourism Ambassador and another to choose the musical theme of the city's tourism sector are expected to boost the local tourism sector.
Ha Noi will continue nurturing critical tourism services such as cultural tourism, sports tourism, meeting-incentive-conference-exhibition (MICE), experiential tourism, Red River travel, helicopter/hot air balloon tour, and virtual reality application visits. These will be the highlights of the capital city's travel sector in the near future
Ha Noi will coordinate with other localities to form tourist routes, focusing on key markets in the north, Ho Chi Minh City, and the southern provinces, Central Highlands, to build attractive and professional tours which are imbued with the capital city's cultural identity and towards international integration./.
