Restaurants and hotels along the coast of Da Nang are being repaired and upgraded to welcome back Chinese visitors after a 3-year pause due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Vietnam Airlines conducted the first regular flight from Beijing (China) to Hanoi on March 19 after a three-year suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Localities and travel firms all are ready to receive large groups of travelers from China. The goal to attract 8 million foreign travelers this year appears feasible.

Vietnam has been officially added to the list of countries to which Chinese nationals can travel on outbound tours from March 15.

Chinese travel firms have firmly backed the recovery of the Vietnamese market and are actively preparing tourism products in a bid to capitalise on opportunities during the upcoming holiday.

Vietnamese travel firms say partners have begun contacting them to ask for information about tours after China announced the resumption of group tours to Vietnam beginning March 15.

A continued hike in fuel prices partly following China’s ongoing economic recovery is expected to cause pressure on Vietnam’s efforts to rein in inflation this year.

The reopening of group tours to Vietnam has been welcomed by Chinese people and travel firms.

The tourism and entertainment stock group saw a hike after the Chinese Government has decided to add Vietnam into the list of the countries to which China’s group tours can be conducted starting from March 15.

The Chinese Government has decided to add Vietnam into the list of countries to which China’s group tours can be conducted starting from March 15, according to Peng Shituan, Cultural Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam.

Salangane nest exporters in Vietnam can earn $200-300 million a year. China has signed a protocol on full-tax export of the expensive salangane nests to its market.

The General Department of Customs of China has granted an additional 163 growing area codes and 67 packaging facility codes to Vietnamese durian, according to details given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

China became the largest consumer of Vietnamese agricultural products in January-February 2023, surpassing the US, as it spent up to 1.27 billion USD to import up to 20.2% of the total export value of Vietnam’s agricultural products.

Vietnam’s provinces see great opportunities for full-tax export of fresh bananas to the Chinese market after the protocol on phytosanitary requirements was signed in November 2022.

Vietnamese airlines have to temporarily postpone the resumption of air routes to China until late April or May to wait for China’s next decisions about the allowance of its tourists to Vietnam.

A Chinese trader has imported 500 containers of tra fish weighing 12,000 tonnes from Vietnam right after China’s lifting of its zero-COVID policy, showing a positive signal for the sector this year.

China, which spends $260 billion to import farm produce, has become as selective as the US and Japan.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) of Vietnam has sent a document to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, proposing adding Vietnam to the list of countries where China is resuming outbound tours.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed China resume outbound travel tours to Vietnam to improve and recover tourism between the two countries.

The first consignment of Dien pomelo from Yen Thuy in Hoa Binh has reached the UK, while farm exports to China have picked up again.