MQL Sustainable Tourism Services

Vietnam's tourism facts & figures up to March 2023: - 2.69 million foreign arrivals Q1 2023 (up 29,7 times from 2022 as per covid re-opening date 15/3/2022) - March 2023 received 895.000 foreign arrivals, revenues VND 161 trillion during Q1 2023 - Top destination increases:  + Danang (73.5%) + Quang Ninh (43,1%) + Can Tho (42.4%) + Ho Chi Minh City (37,2%)  + Hanoi (12,5%) - Package tours estimated revenue VND 6,8 trillion (2.2 times of 2022) 2023 full year target:  110 million visitors (8 m. international and 102 m. domestic) Forecasted revenue about VND 650 trillion ($27,6 billion). Font GSO Vietnam

Our MQL Sustainable Tourism Services inspection trip to famous Halong bay, Northern Vietnam, showing a huge issue of floating waste and polluted areas all over. The tourism impact, the local inhabitants and floating villages, the no care by several cruise companies and little law enforcement by authorities, transformed the idilic location into the images observed below. Recommendations to local and national authorities were shown on several occassions: ✅ Sustainable practices for all cruises ✅ Strict penalties and law enforcement ✅ Daily barges collecting actual waste and recycling material ✅ All private sector parties involvement & action aligned to public sector Topic is the main concern for many international & domestic visitors interviewed, hence the no-return customers to the bay. Several concerned cruise companies are acting, others are ignoring. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/miquel-%C3%A0ngel-04864527_sustainable-tourism-recycling-activity-7044197126301528066-4yX3?utm_s