Hanoi has welcomed nearly 978,700 international tourist arrivals in the first three months of 2023, which is 5.9 times higher than the same period last year, according to the Hanoi municipal Department of Tourism.
A group of international tourists visit the craft village of Chuyen My with mother-of-pearl mosaic craft. (Photo: thoidai.com.vn)
Between January and March, 5.9 million visitors chose the capital city as their destination, a two-fold increase year on year. Hanoi now houses 3,756 lodging facilities totaling 70,218 rooms.
The average occupancy rate of the local 1–5-star hotels was estimated at 56.5% in the three months, up 37.2% year on year. The city has 29 food and beverage businesses, 35 shopping businesses, six entertainment businesses, and one healthcare business meeting the standards to serve tourists.
Hanoi's tourism sector is making efforts to develop travel routes, including those connecting the downtown area with the Bat Trang pottery craft village and Huong Pagoda in My Duc District with the Tam Chuc – Trang An tourism complex in Ha Nam Province and Ninh Binh Province.
Night tours have been conducted, and activities on pedestrian streets have been refreshed. The Hanoi Department of Tourism cooperates with travel businesses and tourist destinations, especially relics and heritage destinations, to build night tourism and experience tourism products on the basis of exploiting traditional values.
In promoting the city’s image, the Capital's tourism sector has implemented association and cooperation activities with key tourism provinces and cities in the Northern region, Ho Chi Minh City, the southern provinces, and the Central-Central Highlands in order to build up tourism programmes to attract tourists.
In addition, it has participated in tourism promotion programmes in markets around the world, welcoming press delegations and foreign travel businesses to survey tourism products in Hanoi.