The total number of international tourist arrivals to Viet Nam in the first six months of 2025 is estimated at 10,664,608, an increase of 20.7% compared to the same period in 2024. Domestic tourism is estimated at 77.5 million arrivals. Total revenue from tourism is estimated at 518 trillion VND.
A conference on November 8 was held jointly by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Thanh Hoa province People's Commitee to discuss preparations for the upcoming National Tourism Year 2015 festivities.
Vietnam has been included in the list of "Top 20 Best Places To Live Overseas", according to Business Insider, a US online newspaper based in New York City.
Hanoi has made the list of the world's top 10 most culturally rich cities, which was announced by Lifehack, a website that gives practical and effective life advice.
Located 120km far from Hanoi, the Cuc Phuong National Park in Ninh Binh province is seen as a natural museum with a large number of species of rare animals and perennial plants and trees on limestone mountains.
The launch of the National Tourism Year 2015 will be held in mid March 2015 in Thanh Hoa province with a focus on connecting world heritage sites.
A network of various world heritage sites across the nation should act as the basis for Vietnam to develop its tourism sector, helping to turn the country into an attractive tourist centre in Asia.
Ninh Binh province has been urged to increase efforts to become a top tourist destination in Vietnam, in parallel with preserving and promoting the value of Trang An landscape complex, a World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
Con Noi alluvial deposit in Kim Son district, situated at the southern tip of the north, has been awarded a World Bio-Sphere Reserve certificate by UNESCO. It is one of the eight important biological reserves in Asia - Pacific and promises an ideal destination for ecotourism.
The northern province of Ninh Binh welcomed over 3.7 million tourists over the first nine months of this year, a year-on-year decrease of 3.7%
Ninh Binh province, with its rich nature, culture, and history, is emerging as a tourism magnet for northern Vietnam, a potential that can be exploited further by enhancing cooperation with other localities in the region.
In spite of economic difficulties, foreign tourist arrivals to Viet Nam still reached more than 6 million in the first nine months of 2014, a year-on-year rise of 10.4%, according to the General Statistics Office.
According to the Hanoi Statistics Office, foreign visitors to the city reached almost 1.5 million during the first nine months of this year.
Vietnam has recently emerged as one of top travel destinations for European tourists, including those from the UK, with more than 144,800 British arrivals in the first 8 months of this year.
According to the list of the Top 45 attractive destinations in Vietnam the Guinness Vietnam has announced, Bai Dinh Pagoda is one of the top 10 for spritual tourism which attract the largest number of visitors.
Environmental news website Mother Nature Network has selected 30 of the most beautiful destinations on Earth, and terraced paddy fields in Vietnam's northern mountainous Sapa district is one of such wonderful places.
Covering an area of nearly 3,000 hectares in Gia Vien district, Ninh Binh province, Van Long Lagoon, which has set two records of the Vietnam Book of Records for a habitat for the largest population of Delacour's lutung (trachypithecus delacouri), and the largest nature picture, has been one of the province's tourism attractions.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has proposed BBC Television of the UK develop a 30-second video clip advertising Vietnam's tourism and broadcast it on the BBC channel in the Asia-Pacific region.
According to statistics by the Ninh Binh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in the first eight months of this year, the tourist arrivals to Ninh Binh numbered 3.679 million, down 3,7% compared to same period last year. However, the number of those staying overnight increased by 314,295 nights, a year - on - year rise of 12.5%.
Ninh Binh and Thanh Hoa, having great potential for natural and historical tourism, promise to become attractive destinations when the provinces co-ordinate closely in developing tourism.
The northern province of Ninh Binh has huge potential of tourism development. The opportunities increased when the Trang An Ecological Complex was recognized as a World Heritage site by UNESCO, on June 23. The province should further exploit the potential presented by eco-tourism.
