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Tourism businesses need to become flexible post-pandemic
Tourism businesses should be flexible to foster domestic travel amid the
Covid-19 pandemic, experts have said. Small groups of tourists visit Phu Quoc Island in Kien Giang Province. Photo kynghiviet.vn.
The pandemic has caused travellers to pay more attention to health, safety,
hygiene, travel insurance, and avoiding crowds, pushing demand for luxury
accommodation with isolated spaces, travel to nearby places and shorter
vacations.
According to surveys, people pay attention to safety rather than price and
choose high-quality travel products.
Demand for marine and nature tourism products is increasing rapidly.
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Thousands of representatives from tourism management agencies and enterprises gathered in the northern province of Ninh Binh on April 15 to discuss ways to promote domestic tourism.
Ninh Binh hosts many spectacular landscapes. The province this year has been chosen as the host of the National Tourism Year 2021 (Photo: 24h.com)
At the national domestic tourism forum with the theme Domestic Tourism - Power Force for Recovering Vietnam s Tourism in New Normal Situation , the participants heard various speeches.
Vu The Binh, Vice Permanent Chairman of the Vietnam Tourism Association, said promoting domestic tourism is the lifebuoy for the whole sector.
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It’s fair to say that 2020 was a challenging year for Vietnam’s tourism sector, but it wasn’t an unmitigated disaster.
Analysts have said that COVID-19 created a turning point for both local and international tourism, requiring travel companies study and craft a new future for their business.
People at the check-in desks at an airport (Photo: VNA)
Travel companies hit hard by pandemic
At a recent travel forum in Hai Phong city, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said the COVID-19 pandemic saw thousands of businesses dissolved last year while tourism revenue fell 60 percent year-on-year to 312.2 trillion VND (13.5 billion USD).
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For travel firms to survive the pandemic, they have had to undergo restructuring.
According to Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), there were 3,339 travel firms as of the end of 2019, including 2,519 international and 820 domestic travel firms.
Because of Covid-19, 90-95 percent of travel firms have suspended operation and 338 firms no longer have licenses. International travel firms have shifted to provide domestic travel services.
More than 400 leading Vietnamese travel firms attended a forum on January 12 in Hai Phong to discuss solutions in the context of Covid-19.
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Nearly 500 representatives from the Vietnam Tourism Association, the Vietnam Society of Travel Agents, the culture and tourism sector, and involved agencies joined the National Travel Agents Forum 2021 held on January 12.
An aerial view of Wyndham Grand Flamingo Cat Ba Resort, which hosts the event. The resort is located in Cát Bà Archipelago, in the south of Ha Long Bay, offshore of Hai Phong city. (Photo courtesy of Flamingo Holding Group)
The event aimed to discuss solutions to revive travel activities and help tourism return to its position as a national key economic sector.