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According to information from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (VH, TT and DL), Deputy Minister Le Quang Tung signed Document No. 1399 / BVHTTDL-TCDL to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, proposing additional awards. solutions to difficulties for tourism industry due to Covid-19 epidemic.

For small and medium-sized businesses, homeowners have rooms for tourists (homestays), workers who lose their jobs in tourist accommodation establishments, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will propose to put these subjects into supported with the VND 62,000 billion package to help people struggling against the Covid-19 epidemic; free of charge for granting, renewing, re-granting international and domestic travel business licenses; tourist guide card in 2020.

For tourism training institutions, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed to invest in establishments that apply online education and training programs according to Vietnam Tourism Occupational Standards. Specifically, to support training institutions to build and upgrade infrastructures for online teaching and learning; support training of online teaching teachers; support the development and upgrading of online learning programs; support the propaganda, encourage tourism businesses to recognize academic results and recruit employees with online training and retraining certificates at tourism training establishments ...

Next, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism proposes to support tourism businesses to participate in national tourism promotion. Specifically, businesses do not have to pay any costs; get support visa costs, support ticket costs for a staff or a tourist business participating in the program. At the same time, the Aviation Administration of Vietnam is requested to direct airlines to assist travel businesses in clearing deposits for buying air tickets during the epidemic; propose permission for tourism businesses and workers to late pay social insurance in 2019 and 2020 until June 2016; at the same time adjusting the provisions on unemployment insurance benefits in ...

Along with the policy recommendations to support businesses, training institutions, workers in the tourism industry, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism proposed also to propose specific solutions for three scenarios of Covid epidemic. -19. With the scenario of Vietnam announcing the end of the epidemic, the industry will focus on stimulating domestic tourism market through exemption and reduction of time-limit services (aviation, accommodation, entrance fees ...); focus on the tourist segment combining business, work settlement, MICE tourism; deploying the media campaign "Safe Vietnam Tourism".

The industry proposed that the Government have consumer stimulus packages, including stimulating domestic consumers to use tourism services; building a smart tourism control center to convert the number of tourism industry during and after the Covid-19 epidemic.

With the scenario of Vietnam and some other countries announcing the end of the epidemic (it is expected that countries in Asia will soon stop the epidemic), the tourism industry will step up communication activities and launch the program: "Vietnam safe and attractive ”(Vietnam NOW - Safety and Smiling). Thereby, contributing to affirming that Vietnam has successfully repelled the Covid-19 epidemic, continues to be a safe destination, tourists are welcome to return, tourism business activities are restored; announcing preferential packages and products. On the other hand, the industry has also restructured the market of international tourists to Vietnam, focusing on promoting visitors to and traveling to markets that have not been translated, especially the segment of tourists combining business and handling. MICE travel and work.

In addition, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed the Government to consider and adopt policies to create favorable conditions for tourists to come to Vietnam through visa exemption, visa exemption and reduction.

When the world announces the end of the epidemic, Vietnam's tourism will intensify the promotion, application of information technology in advertising, communication and development of new tourism products. The whole industry has widely implemented stimulus packages for tourism markets, both domestically and internationally; Proposing the Government to consider having policies to create favorable conditions for tourists to Vietnam such as increasing the frequency, opening more routes to international markets, exempting visas, exempting / reducing visa fees for entry.

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