Officially promoting Vietnam tourism image on YouTube

Information from the General Department of Tourism (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) on January 9 said: The General Department has built a channel to promote Vietnamese tourism on the online video sharing site YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/vietnamtourismmedia.

YouTube channel promoting Vietnam tourism. (Source: YouTube)

This media channel will actively contribute to meeting the needs of domestic and international audiences to follow programs and news about Vietnam tourism. When accessing the YouTube social channel at the above address, the public will be updated with many free news, introductory videos, and promotions about Vietnam tourism with high quality images and sounds.

The General Department of Tourism affirmed: The launch of the Vietnam tourism promotion channel on YouTube is a development in line with the general trend of the digital age, diversifying information channels for tourists who want to learn about our country. Also through this information channel, readers' feelings, assessments, and comments on events and tourist destinations will be recorded, contributing to diversifying this new information channel of the General Department of Tourism.

Currently, to learn about Vietnam tourism information, the public and domestic and international tourists can learn through the official websites of the General Department of Tourism such as: www.vietnamtourism.com; www.vietnamtourism.gov.vn; www.vietnamtourism-info.com; www.vietnam-tourism.com; www.dulichvn.org.vn. Through these pages, information about culture, country, people of Vietnam as well as destinations, tours, tourism services, news, and outstanding events have been introduced to the public, domestic and foreign tourists.

In 2014, the State Steering Committee on Tourism issued Plan No. 1836 directing the coordination of implementing a number of solutions on information and tourism promotion in a number of key markets to attract tourists. The promotional campaign "Vietnam - Safe, Friendly, Attractive Destination" "Exciting Vietnam" with 14 contents was issued.

Tourism promotion and advertising programs and activities have been strengthened and focused more, including: Organizing field surveys for international and domestic press to key tourist localities so that reporters can witness and reflect objective information, contributing to introducing Vietnam's tourist destinations; organizing travel business delegations from key and potential markets of Vietnam tourism (Japan, Korea, Russia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, France, USA...).

Vietnam has also linked and cooperated with countries in the region to increase tourist exchanges and jointly exploit visitors from third markets; organized focused market promotion programs, invested on a larger scale in Japan, South Korea, Russia, and Taiwan; increased the scale of participation in a number of international tourism fairs; and stimulated domestic tourism.

In 2014, total revenue from tourists reached 230,000 billion VND, an increase of 15% compared to 2013 and the highest level ever. During the year, Vietnam tourism welcomed more than 7.8 million international tourists (an increase of 5.64% compared to 2013), serving 37.5 million domestic tourists, an increase of 7.14% compared to 2013.

It is worth noting that Vietnam tourism achieved the above revenue in the context of facing a series of difficulties. China's illegal placement of the Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig in our country's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf has impacted tourism activities in many ways, causing a sudden decline in the number of international visitors.

Vietnam tourism has proactively responded to the situation, strengthening the implementation of urgent solutions to stabilize and develop tourism activities such as expanding key tourism markets, stimulating domestic tourism with the program "Vietnamese people prioritize traveling to Vietnam"...

According to Vietnam+