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More than 40 Japanese travel agents and Vietnamese tourism
businesses attended a seminar on marketing for Japanese tourists in Ho Chi Minh
City on October 25.
The seminar is part of activities to attract more foreign tourists to Ho Chi
Minh City entitled “Next Ho Chi Minh City” with many promotional programmes. Due
to the impact of the recent tsunami and earthquakes, the number of Japanese
tourists to Vietnam has fallen sharply, but Ho Chi Minh City is still an
attractive destination for Japanese visitors.
Japanese businesses expressed hopes that Ho Chi Minh City will be a key
destination for Japanese visitors to other famous tourist sites, such as Nha
Trang, Hoi An and Hue and then to other countries in the region like Cambodia,
Laos and Myanmar.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism plans to set up a representative
office in Japan which is the third largest market of the Vietnamese tourism
sector.
Vietnam received nearly 381,000 Japanese visitors in the first nine months of
this year.
The seminar also introduced many images and documents on Vietnam’s important
tourism destinations to Japanese travel agents.
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