Vietnam Tourism Awards 2025: Honoring 113 outstanding businesses and units in the tourism sector

Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh and Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy presented awards to the 10 best international travel agencies welcoming tourists to Vietnam. Photo: Tran Huan

This morning (September 27), in Hanoi, under the direction of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Vietnam National Administration in coordination with the Culture Newspaper organized the Vietnam Tourism Awards 2025 Ceremony. The Vietnam Tourism Awards 2025 is the most prestigious and prestigious award of the Vietnam Tourism industry. The event not only honors outstanding businesses, organizations, training facilities and media agencies, but is also a vivid demonstration of the strong breakthrough of Vietnam tourism, an economic sector that has risen to lead the region in terms of recovery speed after the pandemic and achieved the highest growth rate in the world.

The Award Ceremony was attended by comrades: Mai Van Chinh - Deputy Prime Minister; Ta Van Ha - Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture and Education ; Trinh Thi Thuy - Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Ho An Phong - Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and representatives of leaders of ministries, branches; leaders of local Tourism Management Departments; tourism businesses; typical tourism training establishments; foreign tourism representative agencies in Vietnam and 113 typical businesses and units honored in this event.

After unprecedented difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam's tourism industry has affirmed its strong vitality, rising to become one of the bright spots of fastest recovery in Southeast Asia. Vietnam is assessed by the ASEAN Secretariat as the country with the highest tourism recovery rate in the region, reaching 98% compared to before the pandemic. Notably, according to the latest report of the United Nations Tourism Organization (UN Tourism), in the first 6 months of 2025, Vietnam's tourism growth rate reached 21%, among the highest in the world.

In the first 8 months of 2025, the tourism industry welcomed nearly 14 million international visitors (up 21.7% over the same period in 2024), served 106 million domestic visitors, and total tourism revenue is estimated at 707 trillion VND. Vietnam has also continuously improved its position in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Tourism Competitiveness Report.

These achievements come from the strong leadership of the Government, the coordination of ministries, branches, localities, the support of the business community and press and media agencies. In particular, the tourism industry has proactively promoted natural and cultural resources to form key products; innovate and create products; improve service quality; diversify experiences; build destination brands and increase the application of technology in management, promotion and advertising.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho An Phong and Mr. Ta Van Ha - Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture and Education presented the awards for the Best Airline for Tourist Service, the Best Waterway Tourist Transport Enterprise and the Best Railway for Tourist Service. Photo: Tran Huan

Affirming position as the leading prestige measure of the tourism industry

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Award Ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho An Phong emphasized that the Vietnam Tourism Award is held every five years with the aim of promoting the emulation movement in the tourism industry to ensure service quality, diversify products, improve the professionalism of tourism businesses, contributing to gradually building the Vietnamese tourism brand, promoting tourism development into a spearhead economic sector of the country.

Deputy Minister Ho An Phong said that Vietnam has many favorable conditions for tourism development, from rich natural landscapes, a system of unique landscapes to heroic historical traditions combined with unique and diverse cultural quintessence; friendly and hospitable people. The Party and State have always paid attention to directing the tourism industry to best promote human potential, developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector. Along with political determination, many localities and tourism businesses have made efforts to create a driving force for continuous growth for the Vietnamese tourism industry, surpassing expectations in both quantity and quality.

According to Deputy Minister Ho An Phong, in order to complete the Government's goals in 2025, striving to welcome 25 million international tourists, serving 150 million domestic tourists, making Vietnam a safe, friendly and attractive destination in the region and the world, contributing to the successful implementation of the socio-economic development plan in 2025, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has been proactively coordinating closely with ministries, branches, localities and the business community to soon form a smart tourism ecosystem, associated with comprehensive digital transformation; strengthen connections, support, take the experience of tourists as the center, launch the emulation movement "Professional service, attentive service, civilized behavior, green-clean-beautiful environment" to bring smiles to Vietnamese tourism; Develop diverse and unique tourism products and services based on potentials associated with promoting heritage values and national cultural identity in line with new trends of high-end resort tourism, health care tourism, agricultural tourism and regional specific products, culinary tourism, etc.

In addition, perfecting the transport infrastructure connecting destinations, focusing on promoting tourism with focused and key campaigns; making the most of the power of the media; mobilizing the cooperation of Vietnamese diplomatic representative agencies abroad; communicating via social networks; promoting bilateral tourism cooperation, cooperation through international organizations in the field of tourism.

Deputy Minister Ho An Phong expressed his deep confidence that, under the attention and leadership of the Party; the drastic direction and management of the Government and the Prime Minister; the coordination and support of ministries, branches, localities and the joint efforts of the business community, the tourism industry will continue to develop strongly, making important contributions to the cause of national construction, contributing to building the image of a friendly and attractive Vietnamese destination, affirming the Vietnamese tourism brand on the regional and world tourism map. The Vietnam Tourism Awards 2025 will be a driving force for businesses in the entire tourism industry to continue researching, creating new products, enhancing the application of technology, innovation, digital transformation, enhancing the experience for tourists and contributing to improving business quality and efficiency.

Director of the National Tourism Administration Nguyen Trung Khanh presented awards for the best community tourism spot, most creative tourism product, and best event venue. Photo: Tran Huan.

Opportunity to strongly promote the image of Vietnam as a friendly, safe and attractive destination

According to the Organizing Committee, in 2025, the Award will enter its 20th season. Through this year's Award, the Tourism industry will continuously promote the emulation movement to innovate, improve service quality, diversify products, increase the professionalism of businesses and related units, and gradually build local tourism brands, national brands, business brands and products. This is an important foundation for Vietnam Tourism to develop strongly, becoming a key economic sector of the country.

The award also contributes to promoting systematic and in-depth investment in the field of vocational education in tourism, hotels and travel; encouraging innovation in training programs and teaching methods, raising professional standards towards international integration, thereby improving the quality of human resources - a decisive factor for the sustainable development of the industry.

In particular, the Award promotes and honors units that fulfill their responsibilities in protecting the environment, promoting sustainable development, encouraging initiatives related to community interests; at the same time, expanding the ability to integrate internationally, promoting the image of the country, people, culture and tourism of Vietnam to the world, creating conditions for tourists to choose and experience the most prestigious and highest quality services.

Over the years, the Vietnam Tourism Awards have affirmed their position as the leading measure of prestige in the industry. The process of selecting the winning units is always conducted seriously, objectively and transparently, with the participation of the Awarding Council including representatives of management agencies, professional associations and experienced experts. The evaluation criteria are clearly and publicly designed, ensuring that only the most outstanding, typical units with the most outstanding contributions to the development of the tourism industry are honored.

With 209 entries, the Award Council, consisting of 11 members representing state management agencies in relevant fields, professional associations, and experts, made fair and objective assessments. The scoring was based on a clear system of criteria for each category, with collective and democratic principles; correctly assessing the capacity and actual contributions of units in the tourism industry and selecting the most outstanding businesses and units.

The Vietnam Tourism Awards 2025 honored 113 typical businesses and units in the tourism sector in 11 award categories (Best travel agency; Best tourist accommodation; Best tourism event venue; Best tourist transport business; Best catering service business serving tourists; Best spa & health care service business serving tourists; Best community tourism destination; Most creative tourism product; Best golf course serving tourists; Media agency with positive contributions to the tourism industry; Best tourism training facility) with 18 titles (Best domestic travel agency; Best international travel agency welcoming tourists to Vietnam; Best international travel service business sending tourists abroad; Best 5-star hotel; Best 4-star hotel; Best Green Hotel; Event venue Best; Best Tourist Transport Business by Car; Best Tourist Transport Business by Waterway; Best Tourist Service Airline; Best Tourist Service Railway; Best Tourist Service Restaurant; Best Tourist Service Spa & Health Care Business; Best Community Tourism Destination; Best Creative Tourism Product; Best Tourist Service Golf Course; Best Tourism Media Agency with Positive Contribution to the Tourism Industry; Best Tourist Service; Best Tourism Training Facility) comprehensively reflects the diverse development of Vietnam's tourism industry.

Receiving these honorable awards are names that have always maintained their brands on the Vietnamese tourism map such as: Vietravel Tourism Joint Stock Company; Saigontourist Travel Services One Member Co., Ltd.; Hanoitourist Travel Company - Hanoi Tourism Corporation; Ben Thanh Tourism Services Joint Stock Company; Flamingo Redtours Joint Stock Company; VietranTour Co., Ltd.; Saco Tourism Co., Ltd.; Vietnam Luxury Travel Co., Ltd.; Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Hotel; InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort; Caravelle Saigon Hotel; Six Senses Ninh Van Bay Resort; Vinpearl Resort & Spa Ha Long Resort; Angsana & Dhawa Ho Tram Resort; Vietnam Airlines Corporation; Vietjet Air Joint Stock Company; Vietnam Railway Corporation...

This year's award especially honors the best green hotels such as: Ana Mandara Cam Ranh Resort; Salinda Resort Phu Quoc Island Resort; Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Hotel; Hotel de L'Opera Hanoi; Cuu Long - Majestic Saigon Hotel; Azerai La Residence Hue Hotel; Silk Sense Hoi An River Resort; Victoria Hang Chau Hotel; Champa Island Nha Trang Resort; H'mong Village Resort; or the best community tourism destinations such as: Sin Suoi Ho Community Tourism; Mong Ethnic Community Cultural Tourism Village in Pa Vi Ha village; Vietnamese Ethnic Culture and Tourism Village; Thai Hai Ethnic Ecological Stilt House Village Conservation Area; Thanh Ha Pottery Village..., in line with the trend of developing green, sustainable, community-oriented tourism.

The Vietnam Tourism Awards will be an opportunity to strongly promote the image of Vietnam as a friendly, safe and attractive destination; encourage businesses to constantly innovate, apply modern technology, and improve the quality of products and services. Thereby, increasingly meeting the diverse needs of domestic and international tourists. More importantly, the Awards affirm the role of tourism as a creative industry, directly contributing to sustainable development and enhancing the image of Vietnam in the world.

Diep Anh

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