Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed a Decision to change the members of the State Steering Committee on Tourism; accordingly, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long will replace Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha as Head of the Steering Committee.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Decision No. 1145/QD-TTg changing the members of the State Steering Committee on Tourism (Steering Committee).
According to the Decision, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long participated and became Head of the Steering Committee, replacing Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha.
Lieutenant General Pham The Tung, Deputy Minister of Public Security, joined the Steering Committee to replace Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang.
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Sang, Deputy Minister of Transport, joined the Steering Committee to replace Mr. Nguyen Duy Lam.
The State Steering Committee for Tourism is an inter-sectoral coordination organization whose function is to assist the Prime Minister in researching, directing, and coordinating the resolution of important, inter-sectoral issues in tourism activities nationwide; researching and proposing to the Prime Minister directions, tasks, and solutions to develop tourism.
The Steering Committee is responsible for assisting the Prime Minister in directing the coordination of activities of relevant ministries, branches and localities in developing and implementing tasks under national and key programs on tourism development in accordance with resolutions of the Politburo, the National Assembly, the Government and decisions and directives of the Prime Minister; at the same time, directing, inspecting and urging ministries, branches and localities in developing and implementing specific plans and programs on tourism development according to assigned functions and tasks.
In addition, the Steering Committee reports to the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee on difficulties related to State policies and laws on tourism development that are beyond the authority of the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches and localities; directs ministries, branches, localities and mass media agencies to propagate and disseminate the State's guidelines, policies, and laws on tourism development.
According to information from the Vietnam National Tourism Administration under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vietnam welcomed nearly 1.3 million international visitors in September this year.
In the first nine months of this year, the total number of international visitors to Vietnam reached more than 12.7 million, an increase of 43% over the same period last year.
According to statistics from the Vietnam National Tourism Administration, in terms of market size, South Korea continues to be the largest market sending visitors to Vietnam in the past 9 months with 3.3 million arrivals (accounting for 26.5%). Second is China, reaching 2.7 million arrivals (accounting for 21.3%). These two markets alone contribute 47.8% of the total number of international visitors to Vietnam.
Next is Taiwan (China) with 954,000 arrivals, the United States (579,000 arrivals), Japan (529,000 arrivals), Malaysia (357,000 arrivals). In the top 10 largest markets for Vietnamese tourism, there are also Australia, India, Cambodia and Thailand.
The increase in the number of tourists is due to the fact that localities have actively promoted tourism promotion activities since the beginning of the year, attracting domestic and international visitors. Tourism revenue in the first 9 months of this year is estimated at 45,600 billion VND, up 16.7% over the same period last year./.
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