Although the number of foreign tourist arrivals rose by 10 per cent in the first seven months of 2011, the HCM City tourism industry has been facing challenges. Deputy Director of HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism La Quoc Khanh and Nguyen Van My, director of Lua Viet Travel Company spoke with Le Hung Vong and Thuy Ha about these issues. Interview with La Quoc Khanh Could you comment on the city’s tourism industry’s achievements in 2011? In the first seven months of 2011, the tourism industry attained sustainable growth, welcoming a total of 1,856,000 foreign visitors, a year-on-year increase of 10 per cent, accounting for 55 per cent of foreign tourist arrivals in Viet Nam in the same period. Meanwhile, the number of local travellers on overseas tours rose sharply in the same period. More than 485,000 Vietnamese travellers from HCM City and southern provinces took tours to overseas destinations such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and China via Tan Son Nhat Airport, up by 30 per cent compared with last year. With average room rental of US$94 per night, three-to-five-star hotels in the city attained occupancy rates of 70 per cent, a year-on-year increase of 6…
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