13 million foreigners spend holidays in Vietnam in 2017About 13 million foreigners chose Vietnam as their holiday destination in 2017, which is considered a record of the tourism sector and marked a year-on-year rise of nearly 3 million in the number of foreign visitors for the first time. Visitors to Ban Gioc Waterfall in Cao Bang provinceMeanwhile, the sector served 73.2 million domestic tourists. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) reported that the tourism sector successfully fulfilled the target of 30-percent rise in the number of foreign visitors. He asked the tourism sector to improve products, accommodation facilities, manpower, as well as museum and theme parks, while devising appropriate strategies and plans. It must successfully carry out the plan on restructuring the tourism sector so as to develop tourism into a spearhead economic industry.-VNA

Source: VietNamNet News December 27, 2017 05:37 UTC