02-Jul-2021 Intellasia |
VNA |
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Vietnam recorded over 88,200 worldwide guests within the first half of 2021, plunging 97.6 p.c year-on-year, the overall Statistical Workplace (GSO) mentioned on June 29.
The GSO attributed the nosedive to the continuation of anti-COVID-19 measures, together with the borders closed for worldwide tourism, noting that many of the overseas arrivals are specialists and technical employees performing duties at initiatives in Vietnam.
Throughout the interval, the variety of Asian guests fell 97.2 p.c year-on-year however nonetheless made up 88 p.c of all worldwide arrivals. Sharing the identical pattern, these from Europe plummeted 99 p.c, the Americas 99 p.c, Oceania 99.4 p.c, and Africa 94.5 p.c.
The Politburo just lately permitted the consideration of welcoming overseas guests with “vaccine passports” to some tourism hubs capable of management COVID-19 transmission just like the island metropolis of Phu Quoc in Kien Giang province on a trial foundation.
At a latest assembly with deputy minister of Well being Do Xuan Tuyen, the Kien Giang Folks’s Committee proposed a pilot “closed quarantine tourism” mannequin for overseas travellers who already received inoculated towards COVID-19
It additionally steered vaccination for your complete inhabitants in Phu Quoc in order to make sure security for native residents and workers at vacationer websites.
Tourism is a key business of Phu Quoc, which has seen annual progress of 28 p.c within the whole customer quantity and over 45 p.c in worldwide arrivals. Nonetheless, it has been hit laborious for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic broke out final 12 months, with whole vacationers and overseas holidaymakers dropping 30.6 p.c and 76.1 p.c year-on-year in 2020, respectively./.
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/international-visitors-to-vietnam-drop-976-percent-yoy-in-h1/203848.vnp
Class: Enterprise, Vietnam
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