Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has announced five measures to attract more foreign tourists in the last months of 2009.

One of these measures is the extension of the ‘Impressive Vietnam' special offer campaign to the end of 2009 instead of September 2009. Foreign travellers who book tour packages under this campaign will enjoy the waiver of visa fees till the end of 2009.

The second measure includes more investment to upgrade tourism facilities and improve the quality of tourism products in the country.

The third measure is to step up promotion campaigns in foreign countries and the fourth measure is to enhance the implementation of cultural activities to attract more foreign visitors such that they will prolong their stay in Vietnam.

Last but not least, the country aims to improve human resource training in the tourism industry to meet the higher demand in the growing tourism sector.

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