Tourism

Since the beginning of 2022, Ninh Binh has implemented the Government's direction of reopening door to vistors and carried out several stimulus measures, so its tourism sector has been bouncing back. It has welcomed a large number of visitors and earned high tourism revenue.

An online conference took place on July 15 to review the culture, sports, and tourism sector's activities in the first six months of 2022 and deploy tasks for the last six months of the year, chaired by Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung.

Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island off the southern province of Kien Giang, has been selected one of 25 best islands in the world by readers of US magazine Travel Leisure.

Since Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex was recognised as World Cultural and Natural Heritage by UNESCO in 2014, Ninh Binh province has made a range of efforts in issuing policies and programmes in an attempt to preserve and promote the heritage's value in line with the World Heritage Convention.

Ninh Binh Legend Hotel has been recognised as a five-star hotel by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, becoming the first of its kind in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

Vietnam welcomed around 602,000 international visitors in the first half of this year, a dramatic increase of 582% year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.

Da Nang, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City have been listed among the best cities in Southeast Asia in Asia's Best Awards 2022, recently unveiled by the Travel & Leisure magazine.

Vietnamese travellers are the second most interested in Asia-Pacific (APAC) in travelling in post-pandemic period, with some 85 percent of respondents from the country planning a trip in the next 12 months, a survey by Booking.com found.

In recent years, some cooperatives in Ninh Binh province have offered experience tourism and community based ecological tourism services, helping to create jobs for local people and contribute to the province's socio-economic development.

Preventing tourists from buying ivory products and endangered wild species is essential, especially in the context that Vietnam has fully reopened its door to international tourists and the tourism industry is on the way to recovery, heard a workshop held in Hanoi on June 22.

The volume of international searches for Viet Nam's tourism soared by 50-75 percent, the fourth highest growth rate worldwide, according to a report from the Google Destination Insights.

In recent years, Ninh Binh's tourism sector has witnessed strong growth with an increasing number of tourist arrivals and a growing amount of revenue. Ninh Binh has been become a bright spot in Vietnam's travel map, and ranked among top 15 leading destinations and top 10 provinces with the highest number of visitors. Apart from its outcomes, the tourism sector still sees weaknesses such as unattractive tourism products and poor entertainment activities which fail to keep tourists stay longer.

Looking at photos featuring the captivating beauty of rice season in the Tam Coc - Bich Dong tourist site in Ninh Binh Province, My Hanh, a reporter of Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper, joined her friends, who are travel enthusiasts, to head to Ninh Binh to admire the beautiful landscape with their own eyes.

Lotuses in various ponds around Hoa Lu district in the northern province of Ninh Binh are in bloom between May and September, creating a unique sight in the local countryside.

Vietnam has made the shortlist in 10 categories at the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA) 2022, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) said on June 6.

The series of 31 SEA Games events have helped Vietnam's tourism gain many positive results in May and the first five months of 2022, both in terms of international arrivals and revenue from travel and other tourism services.

The Ninh Binh Tourism Week 2022 officially opened at cave 2 at the Tam Coc - Bich Dong Tourism Area in the northern province of Ninh Binh on May 21.

The Ninh Binh Provincial People's Committee on May 11 organised a fact-finding trip to survey new tourism products in the province.

The Ninh Binh Provincial People's Committee has issued a plan on promoting tourism in the period of 2022-2025 in a bid to step up the communication and popularization about Ninh Binh's land, people, culture, history and tourism potential, thus calling for investment in the field.