VietNamNet Bridge, 23/10/2006
On the occasion of the APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting, Vietnamese and Japanese leaders of tourism agreed to further intensify cooperation in tourism as written in a joint-declaration made before.
According to Mme Vo Thi Thang, General Director of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), in Hoi An earlier this month tourism leaders of the two countries had a meeting. The two sides agreed to work closely together to seek measures to increase the number of Japanese tourists coming to Vietnam to 500,000 in 2007.
Apart from asking Japan to provide more support for Vietnam’s tourism through ODA programmes, VNAT also urged its Japanese counterpart to upgrade current Japanese websites on Vietnam tourism together with launching more websites in Japanese language to advertise Vietnam’s tourism in Japan.
As findings of the recent research on the comprehensive development of tourism in Vietnam’s central region funded by the Japanese Government reveal that Vietnam needs to build a good tourism institution in the region, Vietnam asked Japan to further support it in founding and building up a high quality hospitality training institution in the central region.
At the meeting, VNAT also asked the Japanese side to organise more FAM trips giving Japanese travel agencies, investors the chances to search for more investment opportunities in the country as well as to provide more support in terms of Japanese language training for Vietnam’s tourism workers.
