With efforts to both control and prevent the spread of COVID-19 and ensure economic development, along with the serious implementation of pilot projects regarding “vaccine passports”, the tourism sector expects that international visitors will be able to freely enter Vietnam starting from the third quarter.

The travel and airline enterprises said they were ready to welcome foreign visitors, simultaneously proposed ministries and departments to develop a common set of standards.

In the first quarter of 2021, the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam was estimated at more than 48,000, representing a year-on-year decrease of 98.7%, according to the General Statistics Office.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has recently organized a workshop to discuss ways of reopening the country’s borders to foreign visitors providing the conditions allow.