Rajit Sukumaran, IHG managing director, Southeast Asia and South Korea, said the plan to increase the number of hotels in Vietnam is part of a global strategy that has been consolidated by Vietnam’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Seashore at InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort in the central city of Da Nang, Vietnam. Photo by Shutterstock/SenSeHi. |
Hailing the government’s efforts to control the pandemic, he said all this company’s hotels in Vietnam have started to welcome guests again and seen a surge in bookings by both leisure and business travelers.
The British company has 13 properties in Vietnam with 3,700 rooms, including at luxury brands Six Senses and InterContinential.
Vietnam recorded a 79 percent decline year-on-year in the number of foreign visitors in 2020 due to travel restrictions amid the pandemic as the country received 3.83 million foreign tourists against a record 18 million in 2019, according to official data.