Vaccine passport ‘untie’ for foreign travel

Since April 15, the Ministry of Health has issued vaccine passports to eligible people. The certification of this vaccine is seen as a boost Vietnam tourism The recovery is more synchronized, not only in domestic tourism, but also in the outbound tourism market – a potential market that is expected to recover quickly.

Number of Vietnamese people going travel abroad growing at an average of 15-20% per year. The fact that some neighboring countries are loosening entry regulations is attracting the attention of many Vietnamese tourists. Many families quickly find tours at a reasonable cost to explore neighboring countries.

According to the share of travel companies, these days, there are consecutive calls to ask about foreign tours, tours that bring Vietnamese people to travel abroad have been vibrant again earlier than they expected. .

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According to the Ministry of Health, users can actively register on the website https://chungnhanvacxin.vn/ to be automatically issued a passport for the COVID-19 vaccine. This “passport” will be displayed on the Electronic Health Book application, PC-COVID, or searched on the Portal of the Ministry of Health.

In addition to the vaccine passport, many other regulations travel agents also indicate need to consider changes to truly open up to tourism.

As of March 17, this year, Vietnam has reached an agreement on mutual recognition of vaccine passports with 17 countries. In order to integrate international tourism more quickly, experts also recommend that Vietnamese authorities negotiate more with more countries so that vaccine passports can be recognized in more countries in the near future. .

Simultaneous development of outbound and inbound tourism is also a way to bring Vietnam’s tourism closer to international visitors, speeding up the recovery of this industry.

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