About 11 million domestic visitors visited HCM City in the first half of 2022, up 43.1 per cent over the same period last year, according to HCM City Department of Tourism.
The HCM City Department of Tourism has called for policies to revive tourism businesses from their COVID-19-induced slump, especially small and medium-sized ones, that include providing interest-free and unsecured loans.
The HCM City Department of Tourism yesterday (August 31) resumed its domestic travel stimulus programme, offering a wide range of discounted tours and travel services for the National Day (September 2) holiday.
The HCM City Department of Tourism said it has submitted to the State Bank of Viet Nam a list of 31 travel and tourism firms that are seeking help to make it through the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The number of foreign tourists visiting HCM City in the first quarter of the year plummeted by 42 per cent compared to the same period last year to 1.3 million due to the novel COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a loss...