Vietravel Chairman and CEO Nguyen Quoc Ky (Source: VNA)
Sydney (VNA) – Vietnam’s leading tour operator Vietravel on March 9opened its representative office in Sydney, Australia.
This is the secondrepresentative office of Vietravel in Australia, after the first wasinaugurated in Melbourne in 2016. The Sydney office is the seventh of its kindopened abroad by Vietravel.
Vietravel Chairman andCEO Nguyen Quoc Ky said that the company will pay attention to overseas marketsin the next five years.
The opening ofoverseas representative offices helps Vietravel and Vietnam’s tourism sector aswell to actively exploit the international market and meet requirements onservice quality, he said.
Vietnam welcomed morethan 380,000 Australian tourists in 2018, of whom 7,000 used Vietravel’s services,Ky revealed.
After the initialsuccesses of the representative office in Melbourne, the company decided toestablish the new one in Sydney with the hope of doubling the figure in the2019-2020 period, he added.-VNA
Vietnamese tour operator Vietravel has been named “Asia’s Leading Tour Operator 2018” and “Vietnam’s Leading Tour Operator 2018” by the World Travel Awards (WTA) for the sixth consecutive year.
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Outstanding tourism businesses were honoured during a ceremony held on September 27 by the People’s Committee of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
A seminar promoting Vietnam’s tourism in Kuwait was co-organised by the Embassy of Vietnam in Kuwait and the Western Asian country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry on December 12.
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An analysis of accommodation search data based on check-in dates for June and July revealed that Nha Trang surpassed all other destinations in popularity among Korean users.
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During the first five months, China continued to be Vietnam's largest source market of tourists, followed by the RoK, China’s Taiwan, the US, and Japan.
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Vietravel Chairman and CEO Nguyen Quoc Ky (Source: VNA) 
