Japan is planning to remove a ban on overseas travel to Vietnam and 11 other countries next month, the Yomiuri newspaper has reported.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has decided to temporarily suspend international commercial flights to Vietnam to complete the quarantine work.
Singapore has unilaterally decided to lift its border restrictions and allow visitors travelling from both Vietnam and Australia, with the exception off the state of Victoria, to visit the island nation as of October 8, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS).
Singapore will lift border restrictions on visitors from Vietnam and Australia, except for the state of Victoria, from October 8.
Rise in family-friendly group tours has warmed up tourism market in Vietnam; travel firms prioritized all sorts of family trips and planned to welcome foreign arrivals, too.
Foreigners who entered Vietnam from March 1, 2020 can have their temporary stay permits automatically extended for another month until October 31, the Immigration Department announced on September 30.
Only 44,000 foreign visitors arrived in Vietnam during the third quarter of this year, equivalent to just 1% of the figure in the same period last year, the General Statistics Office reported on September 29.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has sent an official dispatch to the departments of culture, sports and tourism along with other tourism departments across the country to respond to World Tourism Day (September 27) under the theme “Tourism and Rural Development”.
Vietnam’s effective control of COVID-19 has impressed prestigious US travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler (CNTraveler), as in its latest US and UK publications, the magazine has listed the Southeast Asian country as among the best holiday destinations after the pandemic ends and for 2021.
The Czech - Vietnam Tourism Forum was held in Prague on June 30, as part of activities to celebrate the 70th founding anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties and step up tourism cooperation following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnam is pulling ahead in the race to reopen Southeast Asia to city-hoppers and sunseekers, an article of US magazine Bloomberg has written.
Vietnam will reopen international commercial flights to a number of destinations where no new coronavirus cases have been detected during the past 30 days, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.