Tourism data figures in Vietnam had been neglected for many years. The importance of monitoring correctly international arrivals as well as domestic travellers is an important tool for many countries supporting strategic marketing campaigns among many other promotional actions where required. Discussing with Vietnam-based tourism experts on the topic, agree on many actual statistics failure recounts: residents counted as tourists (or not, depending on location) can be a sample. Considering a business trip to any Vietnamese location is added (or not) to “unreal statistics”… Now Ho Chi Minh City is aligning efforts to monitor closely such numbers for key international visitor markets, let’s see how results and credibility are shown next quarters. Such data is crucial and some of us had been advising during many years on monitoring closely and use such important data for future decisions, seems just now Saigonese authorities just realise on such… Better late than never, let’s implement a ...
