Vietnam, RoK bolster tourism cooperation
VOV.VN - The Vietnam Tourism Association (VITA) came together with the Korea Tourism Organisation of the Republic of Korea (KTO) on September 28 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on ramping up tourism co-operation in Hanoi.
According to the terms of the agreement, both sides will share information on tourism policies, market trends, and statistics; seek to intensify exchanges among businesses in various fields; and jointly organise promotion activities such as tourism fairs, seminars. and famtours.
Under the MoU, members of VITA will receive support in developing tours to the RoK, improving the overall quality of tourism programmes, and ensuring rights and benefits for Vietnamese tourists when travelling to the RoK. This will be done alongside efforts to enhance service quality for Korean tourists in Vietnam.
Vu The Binh, chairman of VITA, highlighted the MoU as a foundation for the two sides to develop professional tourism programmes together.
Lee Jae Hoon, head representative of KTO in Vietnam, expressed hope that the two sides will proactively exchange tourism information, as well as information on human resources, market trends, and tourism policies in order to improve the RoK’s tourism quality and better serve Vietnamese tourists.
Moreover, the RoK’s tourism businesses will actively participate in fairs and tourism promotion conferences held by both sides, whilst also enhancing collaboration between KTO and VITA through business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) events and famtrips, among others.
The number of Vietnamese tourists to the RoK is expected to reach 310,000 by the end of September, while about 2.57 million tourists from the North Asian country travelled to Vietnam during the reviewed period.
