Thailand is strengthening security measures for tourists to restore confidence among Chinese visitors, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has pledged after concerns were raised about the safety of travellers following the kidnapping of a Chinese actor.
Vietnam’s tourism sector is in full swing as travel agencies gear up for the bustling 2025 Lunar New Year season, unveiling tours and preparing to cater to a surge of international and domestic visitors.
Thanks to the close cooperation between Vietnamese and Chinese travel firms and harmonised tourism promotion policies of the two countries, the number of Vietnamese and Chinese tourists travelling to the other country has completely recovered with strong growth potential.
Laos is about to introduce a visa-free policy for Chinese visitors to promote tourism in late June, which will be applied in the second half of 2024 only for tourist groups accompanied by travel agents, local media reported.
Thailand's industrial output rose for the first time in 19 months in April at 3.43% year on year due to higher export and tourism growth, according to the Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Industry.
A forum was held in Mong Cai city, the northeastern province of Quang Ninh, on December 1 to discuss measures for promoting cross-border tourism through the international border gate pair of Mong Cai (Vietnam) and Dongxing (China).
Despite welcoming 20 million foreign tourists in the first nine months of the year, Thailand’s tourism industry has not seen a significant economic boost, due to global economic concerns and a high level of household debt.
Vietnam and China, the two next-door neighbours who share a common set of mountains and rivers as well as striking similarities in culture and society, set up their diplomatic ties on January 18, 1950.
To prepare for welcoming international visitors, including those from China, authorities and tourism and service businesses of the northern province of Quang Ninh have sketched out detailed plans in order to improve the quality of tourism services.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic could cause losses of 5.9-7.7 billion USD for the domestic tourism sector in the next three months, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Under the impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, foreign tourist arrivals in Vietnam may fall by 50 – 60 percent during the epidemic period, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
A Thai minister has come up with a series of marketing plans aimed at luring foreign visitors and speeding up the tourism industry’s rebound, the local media reported on September 14.
Despite various measures to improve its image, Thailand has struggled to end its slump in the number of Chinese visitors, which is a great risk to an economy that is largely dependent on tourism.
The police of the central province of Khanh Hoa on June 7 handed over to the police of China two Chinese men who were being hunted internationally by the police of Maoming city, Guangdong province.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is expecting up to 20 billion THB to be spent by both domestic and international visitors during the Songkran holiday, especially after the Cabinet announced an extra day for the festivities and tax incentives for tourism.
