Khanh Hoa making tourism a pillar of economic growth

After the merger, Khanh Hoa province has been expanded, with great potential for tourism development. In Resolution No. 01 on double-digit economic growth in the period of 2025 - 2030, the Provincial Party Committee identified tourism - services as one of the four pillars of economic growth. To do this, the tourism industry needs to make great efforts.

Tourism highlights

Following the impressive growth momentum of 2024, from the beginning of 2025 until now, Khanh Hoa tourism has grown strongly. Tourism products are increasingly high quality, the tourist market is increasingly diverse, especially the international tourist market. Accordingly, the number of Korean visitors continues to grow steadily with about 19 flights per day from major cities of Korea to Cam Ranh. Although the number of Chinese visitors did not increase as expected, it still maintained the level of 8 flights per day to Cam Ranh. In particular, the reopening of direct flights from Russia to Cam Ranh has created a breakthrough with 220,641 Russian visitors in the first 7 months of 2025, an increase of 269.6% over the same period and currently there are about 30 flights per week. The number of tourists from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Thailand, and Malaysia remains stable. According to the report of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, during the 7 months of 2025, the total number of visitors served by accommodation establishments reached more than 10.8 million, an increase of 16% over the same period last year and reaching 68.8% of the 2025 plan. Of which, international visitors were more than 3.2 million, an increase of 13.6%; domestic visitors more than 7.6 million, up 17.1%. Total revenue from tourists reached nearly 42,380 billion VND, up 17.2% over the same period in 2024.

Polish tourists travel to Khanh Hoa.

Coming to Khanh Hoa these days, it is easy to see a lot of Korean, Chinese, Russian, and Kazakh tourists on the downtown of Nha Trang and famous tourist attractions such as Po Nagar Tower, Long Son Pagoda, Nha Trang Cathedral, Oceanographic Museum… At VinWonders Nha Trang, Nha Trang Tourist Wharf and Long Phu Tourist Wharf, there are many international visitors booking tours everyday. The southern area of the province with Vinh Hy Bay, Ninh Chu beach also attracts a large number of visitors.

Tourists experience motorized paragliding in Bac Nha Trang ward.

Towards a pillar of economic growth

After the merger, Khanh Hoa province's space has been expanded, with great potential for tourism development. In Resolution No. 01, the Provincial Party Committee identified tourism - services as one of the four pillars of economic growth, creating momentum to promote the development of other economic pillars, making important contributions to economic growth, budget revenue, job creation and improving people's lives. Accordingly, the province has set ambitious goals, such as: 20.5 million guests staying at Mui Dinh, including 10.5 million international guests; 100,000 tourist accommodation rooms, 75% of which are 3 to 5 star standard rooms; creating jobs for more than 300,000 direct and indirect workers in the tourism industry; contributing 15% to GRDP and 20% to the budget revenue.

Tourists enjoy Mui Dinh sand hill.

Many tourism experts assess that, despite many advantages, to achieve the above goals, Khanh Hoa tourism industry needs to make great efforts with many synchronous solutions to develop tourism in a professional, modern, quality and sustainable direction. "Khanh Hoa needs to reshape the tourism development space; upgrade infrastructure; diversify tourism products; improve the quality of tourism human resources; target high-spending customer markets", Dr. Pham Ha - Chairman of Lux Group suggested. Sharing the same view, experts from Gratiya Company (a consulting unit to build the Khanh Hoa province tourism development strategy for the period 2025 - 2030, vision to 2045) said that Khanh Hoa tourism needs to reposition the development space associated with building specific tourism products; have solutions to attract investment, form national and international trade centers, commercial streets and night tourism. In addition to resort tourism products and exploring the sea and islands, Khanh Hoa needs to promote conference and seminar tourism, health care resort tourism, cultural tourism, eco-tourism, and community tourism. Regarding the tourist market, Ms. Jessica Ling - an expert from Gratiya Company suggested that Khanh Hoa tourism needs to continue to exploit the source of visitors from core markets such as: Korea, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Malaysia; at the same time, strengthen promotion and exploitation of potential markets such as: Western Europe, Australia, America, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia) ... The province also needs to build a tourist port, upgrade and expand Cam Ranh International Airport to facilitate the attraction of international tourists.

Tourists participate in team building at Radisson Blu Resort Cam Ranh.

Cung Quynh Anh - Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that Resolution No. 01 of the Provincial Party Committee has set out key tasks and solutions such as completing and implementing the tourism development strategy of Khanh Hoa province for the period 2025 - 2030, with a vision to 2045; promulgating a policy on community tourism development for the period 2026 - 2030; promulgating a comprehensive program to promote domestic and international tourism; focusing on promoting administrative reform, improving the tourism investment environment; implementing mechanisms and policies to support tourism development, enhancing provincial competitiveness in tourism... In the coming time, the tourism industry will focus on implementing these tasks and solutions to develop Khanh Hoa tourism rapidly and sustainably, aiming to make tourism - services a pillar of economic growth of the province.

Thanh Nguyen

Translated by T.T