Vietnam, RoK seek to foster cooperation in MICE tourism

At the same time, Vietnam has fully reopened its tourism from March 15. In the first five months of this year, international arrivals to Vietnam reached 229,000, 4.5 times higher than that in the same period last year, including 56,500 from the RoK, a surge of 334 percent compared to the same time in 2021.

Lotte Tower in Seoul

Pham Van Thuy, Vice Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, asked the KTO to give more favourable conditions for people of both countries to travel to each other, and travellers from a third country to visit the two nations.

According to KTO Chief Representative in Vietnam Lee Jae-hoon, the RoK highly values Vietnam’s potential in MICE tourism, affirmed that his country always welcomes Vietnamese firms to take MICE tours in the RoK. He expressed his belief that the event will create more opportunities for tourism sectors of both sides to foster partnership.

The RoK is currently considered a centre of MICE tourism in Asia thanks to high quality infrastructure system in the majority of its cities such as Seoul, Busan, Jeju, Incheon, Gyeonggi and Gangwon./.

VNA