Nguyen Quoc Hung, Deputy Head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), said the sector targets to increase the number of Russian tourists arriving in Vietnam by 10% from now to later this year.

Russians are long-stay backpackers with a great deal of spending and have contributed remarkably to economic improvements in a number of Vietnam’s southern provinces.

On the sidelines of the fair, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee organized a conference to boost HCM City tourism business operations in Russia.