Local officials from Vietnam and South Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on bilateral tourism cooperation in Seoul on Friday.

The MoU was signed by Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh and his Korean counterpart Yu In-chon during Anh’s working visit to the East Asian country.

Earlier, the two ministers had talks in which they discussed ways to strengthen bilateral exchanges in the fields of culture and tourism.

Yu In-chon told Anh that South Korea will send more delegations to Vietnam and work closely with Vietnam’s competent agencies to boost tourism in the coming time, helping deepen the mutual understandings between the two peoples.

Yu said he believe Vietnam, with its beauty and rich potentials in tourism, would become the top destination for Korean tourists.

For his part, Anh reckoned that Vietnam and South Korea have great potentials of tourism cooperation.

South Korea is a promising tourism market and Vietnam is making efforts to lure tourists from the country, Anh said.

On the occasion, Anh invited Yu to visit Vietnam.

It is expected that a number of delegations from South Korea will come to Vietnam for cultural events in commemoration of the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi.

South Korea is one of the five countries posting the largest number of tourists to Vietnam, about 400,000 tourist arrivals each year.

Source:tuoitrenews