Vietnam receives nearly 40 Asian tourism awards 2024

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Vietnam receives nearly 40 Asian tourism awards 2024

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09/09/2024

Vietnam was honored by the World Travel Awards (WTA) Asia region in nearly 40 important categories.

On the evening of September 3 in Manila, Philippines, Vietnam was honored by WTA in the category of Asia's Leading Destination 2024 and won this title for the fourth consecutive time. In addition, Vietnam also won two other awards: Heritage Destination and Asia's Leading Natural Destination.

Many provinces and tourist destinations in Vietnam were also highly appreciated by WTA and awarded important awards. Hanoi won the awards for Short-Term Destination and Asia's Leading City for the third consecutive time.

Pháo hoa mừng Quốc khánh trên sông Sài Gòn, ngày 2/9. Ảnh: Thanh Tùng

Fireworks celebrating National Day on the Saigon River, September 2. Photo: Thanh Tung

This year, Ho Chi Minh City was honored as "Asia's Leading Destination" in two categories: Business Travel, Festivals and Events, and Asia's Leading Tourism Management City (in 2023, this award belonged to Hanoi).

Ha Giang was recognized for the first time as Asia's Leading Local Cultural Destination. The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Nam province was named in the category of Leading Local Tourism Management Agency; Hoi An received the title of Cultural City for the fifth time, Van Don International Airport was named the Leading Local Airport; Vietravel received three awards for travel and tour operations.

Some destinations honored as "Asia's leading" at WTA 2024

Destination	Award
Viet Nam	Top Destinations in Asia Heritage, Nature Destinations
Ha Noi	Short Break Destination and Top Tourist City in Asia
TP HCM	Business Travel Destinations; Festivals and Events; Top Tourism Management Cities
Ha Giang	Asia's Top Local Cultural Destination
Quang Nam	Asia's Top Local Cultural Destination
Hoi An	Cultural City
Van Don	Local airport
Ha Nam	Emerging tourist destination
Moc Chau	Local nature destinations
Tam Chuc Tourist Area	Cultural Tourist Attractions
Cuc Phuong	Cultural Tourist Attractions

Like Ha Giang, Ha Nam is also a new name appearing at WTA this year and was honored in the category of Asia's Leading Emerging Tourist City. Tam Chuc Tourist Area won the Asia's Leading Cultural Tourist Destination award for the second consecutive time. Sun World Ba Na Hills is the leading theme park. Moc Chau received the World's Leading Local Natural Destination award for the second consecutive time. Hai Au Aviation is Asia's Leading Seaplane Operator.

Dozens of high-end resorts and hotels in provinces and cities in Vietnam were also honored. InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort won the Green Resort award; Capella Hanoi is a luxury boutique hotel and Banyan Tree Lang Co is Asia's Leading Luxury Beach Resort.

This year, WTA Asia awarded Vietnam nearly 40 awards. In 2023, Vietnam was honored in 45 categories.
Banyan Tree Lăng Cô đạt giải Khu nghỉ dưỡng ven biển sang trọng hàng đầu châu Á. Ảnh: Booking

Banyan Tree Lang Co wins Asia's Leading Luxury Beach Resort. Photo: Booking

The World Travel Awards (WTA) was established in 1993, is a prestigious award recognized worldwide and is considered the "Oscar of the tourism industry". The award is held annually to honor outstanding destinations, tourism management agencies, quality tourism service providers, including many categories such as airlines, hotels, resorts, travel companies, tourist destinations. This year is the 31st time WTA has taken place.

The WTA awards are honored in three levels from high to low: world (usually announced at the end of the year), region and each country. Voting is conducted online, with participants including tourists, experts, CEOs in the tourism - travel industry. In which, one vote from experts is counted as two regular votes.

Anh Minh (According to WTA)