Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa is an interesting destination to Korean tourists. With the direct flights and suitable tourist products, Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa is expected to receive a large number of Korean tourists in the time to come.
Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa is an interesting destination to Korean tourists. With the direct flights and suitable tourist products, Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa is expected to receive a large number of Korean tourists in the time to come.
Korean visitors to Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa rising
According to the statistics by the provincial Department of Tourism, Khanh Hoa Province received over 53,000 Korean visitors in the first nine months of 2018, increasing by 73% year-on-year. The number of Korea visitors to Khanh Hoa Province ranks the third, following the number of Chinese visitors and the number of Russian ones. The increase in Korean visitors shows the effort in tourism promotion of the province during the past two years. Lately, the provincial People’s Committee has organized a trip to do tourism promotion in Korea, including meeting big travel firms in Korea and joining tourism fairs.
Korean tourist businesses have sent a famtrip mission to survey tourism of Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa. The mission including representatives of Korean Airline and some big Korean travel firms like Hana Tour, Hanjin tour, KRT Tour, etc. In the trip, the mission visited tourist sites, including Tam Island, Vinpearl Nha Trang, Hoa Lan Stream, Monkey Island, etc., hotels and resorts including Sheraton Nha Trang, Inter Continental Nha Trang, Isena, Champa Island, The Anam and Duyen Ha.
Members of the Korean mission highly appreciated quality of tourism services of Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa and expected the cooperation between the two sides. “Khanh Hoa has a lot of interesting features like beautiful beaches, friendly people, etc. Korean tourists like Vietnamese food. Your province should make this advantage to attract more Korean tourists as your coastal land has a lot of fresh seafood”, said Taeho Noh, from Neo Marketing Plus Company.
According to Nguyen Thi Le Thanh - Vice-deputy of the provincial Department of Tourism, in the time to come, the local tourism will have a strategy to develop tourist products suitable with Korean tourists.
 Korean famtrip mission visiting Tam Island
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Opportunity to welcome more Korean tourists
Korean tourists attend to Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa more and more. Recently, Korea Travel has introduced about Nha Trang tourism on its special edition. Most of Korean tourists and Korean travel firms left good feedbacks to Khanh Hoa tourism. Especially, the expansion of Cam Ranh International Airport and the launch of direct flights to Korea are important conditions for Korean travel firms to invest in the market of Khanh Hoa.
Similarly, Kim Dae Hwan, a representative from Hanjin Travel, also said that the cooperation opportunity to bring Korean tourists to Khanh Hoa is very advantageous. “Korean Air has daily flights connecting Khanh Hoa and Seoul. Then, we have connected travel companies in Khanh Hoa. We hope to bring many Korean tourists to Khanh Hoa Province”, Kim Dae Hwan said.
To serve demands of Korean tourists, Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa needs have suitable services. Bui Minh Thang, director of Phuong Thang Tourist Service Co., Ltd., said that to facilitate Korean visitors, tourist and service places should have menus and guide boards in Korean language. Besides, the number of tourist guides who can speak Korean should be raised.
According to some travel firms, Korean tourists often use smart phones to search information on tourism. Therefore, the local tourism should have Korean version for websites and applications.
Xuan Thanh
Translated by T.T
