Inferior levels must also seek ways to renovate visa granting process to faciliate foreign arrivals inflows while designing proper policies to spur domestic tourism development, the resolution says.

According to the General Statistics Office, Viet Nam welcomed over 6 million foreign visitors in the first nine months of 2014, representing a year-on-year increase of 10.4%.

The figure, however, is still modest in comparison with that of the neighboring countries like Singapore,Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia,

At the Government’s recent monthly meeting, PM Nguyen Tan Dung asked inferior levels “Why we can’t level the differences between us and Thailand, not to mention Malaysia, Singapore, or Indonesia.” Is it because of infrastructure, workforce, policies, aviation, or visa granting or others?

Viet Nam, blessed with beautiful landscapes and a series of world heritages recognized by UNESCO, only lured over seven million tourists last year, official statistics showed./.

By Huong Giang