VIETNAMESE AGENTS VISIT GLOBAL EXHIBITION ON SERVICES

Ton Sinh Thanh, Ambassador of Viet Nam took the opportunity at the press conference on Viet Nam – India Tourism Cooperation to announce that a delegation of 15 leading Vietnamese travel agents, headed by the Vice-chairman of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will participate in the Vietnam Tourism Pavilion at the Global Exhibition on Services in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 23-25 April 2015.

The pavilion with the theme “Viet Nam – Land of Heritage” is the biggest ever Viet Nam Tourism Pavilion in India and will showcase first-hand information on how to travel to Vietnam. The pavilion is also particularly useful for Indian tourism enterprises to tie up business with Vietnamese partners. After the participation in the Vietnam Tourism Pavilion, the delegation will travel southward to conduct roadshows in Hyderabad and Chennai from 26-29 April 2015.
 
This promotion event is motivated by the huge potentials for tourism cooperation between the two countries. India now has become a very big outbound tourist market, while Vietnam has become a very attractive tourist destination. The two countries had long historical cultural links and are now expanding bilateral strategic partnership, thus creating very favourable conditions for tourist exchanges. Over the last three years, the number of Indian tourists to Vietnam increased more 300 per cent from 18,000 in 2011 to 55,000 in 2014.

However, the number remains a very thin portion (0.25 per cent) of the total number of Indian tourists travelling abroad and far behind the number of Indians going to other far-east destinations like Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia. In order to increase the flow of Indian tourists to Vietnam, Vietnam Embassy in coordination with Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and Vietnamese tourist companies are intensifying promotion activities in India. The Embassy is also committed to make the visa application easiest, fastest and most convenient for the Indian tourists.