Its competitors are China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Tourists row kayak in Ha Long Bay, 2019.

UNESCO heritage site Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh was also named Asia's leading tourist attraction.

Since its recognition as a UNESCO natural world heritage in 1994, Ha Long Bay has found a spot on the global tourism map, with travel bloggers and filmmakers hailing its emerald waters and thousands of towering limestone pillars topped by rainforests.

The bay helped Quang Ninh welcome 14 million tourists, including 5.7 million foreigners, in 2019, an increase of 14 percent from the previous year.

Van Don, Vietnam's first private airport, in Quang Ninh also won Asia’s leading airport title. Inaugurated in December 2018, the VND7.5 trillion airport lies 50 kilometers from Ha Long Bay.

The results were based on votes cast by travel industry professionals and the public.

World Travel Awards was first launched in 1993 to acknowledge excellence in the travel and tourism industry.

It has been heralded the "travel industry's equivalent of the Oscars" by The Wall Street Journal.

Tapping eco-spiritual tourism advantages in Nham Bien range

(BGO) - With historical factors and favorable natural conditions, the Nham Bien mountain range is considered a place with great potential to develop eco-resort tourism and many other forms. That potential is gradually being awakened by Yen Dung district of Bac Giang province.

Hanoi prepares many attractive "green" tourism products to serve visitors

The Hanoi Travel Association (VISTA Hanoi) and the VGreen Sustainable Tourism Club are working with many localities around the capital city as well as other provinces and cities to develop tourism products that are suitable to the new situation, to serve the people and visitors as soon as possible.

Luc Ngan strives for sustainable development of ecological community-based tourism

(BGO)- Luc Ngan district in northern province of Bac Giang is endowed with many potentials and advantages in natural conditions, historical relics and culture for tourism development especially ecological community-based tourism.

Bac Giang’s tourism sites reopen for visitors

(BGO) – Currently, Covid-19 pandemic has been well contained in Bac  Giang province, hence several tourism sites and complexes reopen for visitors.

Da Nang plans to "activate" local tourism from October 20

With the Covid-19 epidemic under control, the Danang Department of Tourism has developed a plan and consulted the leaders of Da Nang City, which is expected to "activate" on-site tourism from October 20.

Source: VnExpress