Vietnam start issuing e-visa for travel purposes in order to attract more foreign tourists. This visa is valid within 30 days for tourists come to Vietnam with travel purpose.
This is considered to be a jumping step of check-in procedure for tourists come to Vietnam after complaint about verbose procedures to issue visa from foreign travelers come in Vietnam
Website of gorverment quoted from vice chairman of Vietnam Tourism Association, Vu The Binh, he said applying e-visa is a movement but can not solve all the problems of tourism and has not yet help Vietnam tourism industry compete with other countries in South East Asian. According to Mr. Bing, those coutries have been welcome many citenziens from other coutries come to visit without visa, Thailand is a great example which has exempted tourists in 58 coutries from visa, Malaysia is 158 countries, Philippines is 168 countries and Indonesia is 169 countries.
Although foreign tourists come to Vietnam this year increases than previous ones but its tourism industry is affected dramatically in the last several months aftermatch of pollution of the sea in the Middle area caused by Formosa. According to Tourism Office, 5 provinces of the Midle area, which are affected by this break-down, has lost VND 2,000 billion and caused the fall of revenue from Tourism about 90% deduction.
Comment this proposal, director of Quan Binh province’s Tourism Department, Ho An Phong said to VOA Vietnamese that this is a “good thing” to Vietnam tourism.
With the new visa procedure, the whole process from submit the documents, consideration and announcement of issuing visa for foreign tourists
To the goal of attracting more tourists, in July this year, Vietnamese Gorverment issue the policy of extending visa up to 15 days for toursits from 5 Europe countries include: Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italia. Previously in this year, Vietnam extended visa for American tourists up to 1 year in stead of 3 months previously.
However, according to experts of tourism business, Government need to continue extend grant visa for countries which are the key markets of Vietnam tourism to help country tourism integrates faster and more effective.
VOA