Vietnam nominated for Asia’s Best Golf Destination 2021 award
Vietnam has been nominated for the Asia’s Best Golf Destination 2021 award, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) said on March 9, calling on people and tourists to vote for the country.
Golf tourism is viewed as highly potential in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Vietnam has been nominated for the Asia’s Best Golf Destination 2021 award, theVietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) said on March 9, calling onpeople and tourists to vote for the country.
It noted that votes can becast on the website from now until September 1.
Support from people andtourists will give Vietnam a chance to continue promoting itself as ahospitable country welcoming visitors from far and wide with open arms. Inparticular, Vietnam has been fostering sports tourism as part of efforts toboost post-pandemic tourism recovery, according to the VNAT.
Vietnam was recognised as theWorld’s Best Gold Destination in 2019 and Asia’s Best Golf Destination for fourstraight years, from 2017 to 2020.
Tourism experts said golftourism is highly potential in Vietnam, and that unlike ordinary visitors, golftravellers will return to previous destinations for many times and they arecapable of spending much on high-end hotel and restaurant services.
Together with the developmentof tourism infrastructure, the golf course system in Vietnam has received biginvestment in recent years with high quality and beautiful landscape.
The Asia’s Best GolfDestination award is part of the World Golf Awards, held annually since 2014and viewed as the most prestigious awards in the golf tourism industry./.
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Golf tourism is viewed as highly potential in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) 
