(TITC) - The 35th Joint Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for East Asia and the Pacific (CAP) and the UNWTO Commission for South Asia (CSA) took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 16 June 2023. Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh, Chairman of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) attended and spoke at the meeting.

(TITC) - The monitoring travel trends tool Google Destination Insights recently shows the demand growth for searching Vietnam tourism information (international and domestic) from March to June 2023 is increasing in the range of 10%-25%, at the world's 7th growth.

Wakayama Prefecture of Japan recently announced that it would launch an international air route connecting Nanki-Shirahama Airport with the two Vietnamese localities of Ha Noi and Da Nang starting from July.

(TITC) - From this July, Vietnam and Japan will operate additional international flight routes connecting Nanki Shirahama Airport (Japan) to Ha Noi and Da Nang (Vietnam). The first two rounded-flights are expected to operate on 16th and 30th July 2023 respectively.

Over the past few years, Vietnamese cuisine has been the subject of much praise from major travel websites and food guides. This indicates that the local cuisine is a huge "gold mine" of international tourist appeal. To tap this potential, it is important for the tourism industry to create a local food map.