Ariyana Convention Centre Danang is emerging at the heart of the thriving MICE tourism industry in the central coast.
Amid travel restrictions and general public wariness around safety, staying in a hotel close to home – and in many cases, the same city – is on the rise from the U.S. to Britain and Vietnam.
TheLEADER talks with Alma Resort’s general manager Herbert Laubichler-Pichler, an Austrian national who has 14 years' experience in Vietnam, to better understand the changes in the post Covid-19 tourism industry.
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Vietnam’s premier developer of modern entertainment complexes has acted to protect the health of the general community as well as tourists and staff. The temporary closure will allow Sun Group to devote energy to preparing many exciting new developments that will be rolled out when Covid-19 is deemed to be no longer a threat and help Vietnam’s tourism industry recover.
As the Covid-19 epidemic is taking heavy toll on the global economy, Sun Group chairman Dang Minh Truong talks about the company’s losses and recommends various measures to restore the tourism industry.
Vietnam needs to have a more ambitious strategy with breakthrough thinking to elevate tourism industry to a new impetus for economic growth.
Disruptive technology is changing the face of the global hospitality sector and it is definitely transforming Vietnam’s budget hotel industry in one way or another. To see how it is happening right now, Troy Griffiths, deputy managing director at Savills Vietnam, will give an insight into how tech has been driving the budget hospitality and opening up opportunities for the tourism industry as a whole here.
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Although US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked away from their summit in Hanoi with no deal, Michael Kelly, Executive Chairman of Ho Tram Project Company, which is developing a $4.2 billion casino resort in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province remains upbeat on the event’s impacts on the Vietnam’s tourism industry.
With the strong development of tourism industry, impressive economic growth, and the efforts of Vietnam in improving infrastructures, the country's seaside real estate has a lot of potentials to grow strongly, according to chief operating officer of Indochina Capital Michael Piro.
Vietnam’s agritourism is a niche market which has such a wealth of resources that it can provide quality products for both domestic and foreign visitors.
In the context of a thriving tourism industry with a rapid growing number of international visitors, the emerge of big casino business service projects owned by Banyan Tree Holdings, Suncity or Las Vegas Sands is one of the crucial strategy to harvest from overseas tourists.
Western tourists are not better or more desirable than those from East Asia but the tourism industry’s growing dependence on domestic and regional tour groups may be unhealthy in the long run.
In 2018, Vietnam Airlines will have its first non-stop flight to the United States, with a starting point of either San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Vietnam has undergone an astonishing 30 years of development. The World Bank's outlook for the Vietnamese economy remains highly positive, with average GDP growth of around 6% forecast annually until 2020.
