Overview of the meeting (Photo: TITC)

Vietnam News is a unit under the Vietnam News Agency and launched in 1991. Vietnam News is Vietnam's first and only English daily newspaper, selected by the Government as the National foreign affairs newspaper, published seven days a week. Besides, there are English online edition vietnamnews.vn, along with two specialised sites bizhub.vn (specialising in economics and finance) and ovietnam.vn (specialising in culture and tourism).

Vietnam News owns a large readership on multimedia channels, is a founding member of the Asia News Network (ANN), is a communication partner of many ministries, departments and localities and is the exclusive partner of Media Outreach in Vietnam.

VNAT’s Vice Chairman Ha Van Sieu at the meeting (Photo: TITC)

With the potentials and strengths of both sides, Ms. Nguyen Khanh Chi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Vietnam News, expressed her will to cooperate with VNAT in the near future, to strengthen the promotion of Vietnam tourism to international tourists through the production of content, images, and video clips; tourism communication on information channels of both sides; spread Vietnam tourism information to international press agencies; organising events, seminars on tourism... thereby contributing to promoting Vietnam tourism post the Covid-19 pandemic, attracting more international visitors to Vietnam.

Ms. Nguyen Khanh Chi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Vietnam News speaking at the meeting (Photo: TITC)

At the meeting, representatives of specialised divisions of VNAT exchanged additional opinions on a number of possible cooperation between the two sides in promoting Vietnam tourism destinations, products and services to international tourists.

VNAT’s Vice Chairman Ha Van Sieu highly appreciated the proposal of Vietnam News aiming to promote Vietnam tourism’s recovery and development. VNAT’s Vice Chairman Ha Van Sieu stated, Vietnam tourism is making a strong recovery. In the first 10 months of 2023, Vietnam welcomed about 10 million international visitor arrivals. Vietnam Tourism is also honoured to receive many prestigious international awards, showing the attractiveness and attraction of Vietnamese destinations to international friends.

In recent times, the work of communication and promotion of international markets has been strongly focused on and implemented by VNAT through programmes to introduce Vietnam tourism abroad and both on digital platforms such as websites and social networks and have made an important contribution to promoting the recovery of Vietnam tourism.

VNAT’s Vice Chairman Ha Van Sieu speaking at the meeting (Photo: TITC)

Agreeing with the proposals of Vietnam News, VNAT’s Vice Chairman Ha Van Sieu affirmed that VNAT will be always ready to support, share information, as well as give comments on content and ideas about tourism to enrich and make more unique media content produced on Vietnam News. At the same time, VNAT’s Vice Chairman Ha Van Sieu asked Vietnam News to share and provide documents on images, information and video clips about Vietnam's landscapes and destinations so that the two sides can coordinate to build unique video clips about Vietnam tourism. The two sides need to cooperate to create new, high-quality media products to promote Vietnam tourism widely and effectively on the media channels of both VNAT and Vietnam News, as well as widely spread to international press agencies. In addition, the two sides can also coordinate to organise a number of talk shows and seminars to discuss solutions to promote Vietnam tourism in the new situation.

At the meeting, the leaders of both sides agreed to consider signing a memorandum of cooperation to create a basis for implementing coordinated activities to promote communication and promote Vietnam tourism to international tourists in the coming time.

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