Vietnam has enough elements to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector , with tourism potential and rich diversity . In
2008, Vietnam welcomed 4.218 million international passengers , this
figure in 2009 was 3.8 million , down 11 % from the previous year . In
2012, the number of international visitors to Vietnam is about 6.8
million , domestic travel to vietnam tourists reached 32.5 million . [ 2 ] tourism revenue
in 2009 reached Vietnam from 68,000 to 70,000 billion, [ 3 ] 160.000 billion in 2012 [ 2 ] . Tourism contributes 5 % to the GDP of Vietnam [ 4 ] According
to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism , the expected number
of visitors in 2013 was 7.2 million international arrivals, travel (an
increase of 5.15 % compared to 2012 ) , serving 35 million domestic
visitors ( up 7 ,
69 % compared with 2012) , the total revenue from tourists reached
190.000 billion (up 18.75 % compared to 2012 ) [ 5 ] and in 2015
Vietnam's tourism industry will attract 7-8 million passengers international
, 32-35 million domestic tourists , in 2020 the corresponding figure is
11-12 million international visitors ; 45-48 million domestic tourists .
Revenue from tourism is expected to reach U.S. $ 18-19 billion by 2020. [ 6 ] However,
TRAVEL TO VIETNAM tourism industry for many years , also being alerted to the
accident " slash cut " , visitors bullying , poor infrastructure and
poor service quality , poor management , make an impression bad
with tourists . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] From more than 20 years of
tourism development , Vietnam focus exploiting natural lack of strategic
direction and development , investing in a basically for
travel , and far behind other countries in the region . [ 4 ] and still
do not have a theater , performing arts theater ethnic enough level to
showcase to international visitors , to diversify cultural tourism products . [ 4 ]