{"id":25395,"date":"2021-12-09T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25395"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:04:15","slug":"vietnam-may-allow-international-flights-from-december-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-may-allow-international-flights-from-december-15","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam may allow international flights from December 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vietnam&#8217;s Ministry of Transport has announced international flights could start to operate from December 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam.- The government of Vietnam is close to\u00a0<strong>allowing the return of foreign tourists on international flights<\/strong>. The Ministry of Transport hinted that international flights on nine routes could resume from December 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media reports, the first phase will see flights between Vietnam and San Francisco or Los Angeles, Singapore, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Vientiane (Laos), Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei. The ministry said these markets are the <strong>most important in terms of political and economic relations<\/strong>\u00a0and that there will be four flights per week on each route in each direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second phase will start in January, adding routes between Vietnam and Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Paris, Frankfurt, Sydney and Moscow. The phase will last for one month and it is estimated to see around 160,000 people arrivals in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the government is keen to allow vaccinated tourists to visit the country to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-to-allow-vaccinated-visitors-from-december\">help the tourism and gaming sectors<\/a>. According to Reuters,\u00a0<strong>in 2020 the tally of foreign visitors to Vietnam was down 79 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0from 18 million to 3.8 million when compared to pre-pandemic levels. Revenue was US$31bn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of Vietnam casinos only allow foreigners to gamble. As a result, revenues have been deeply affected by Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-the-hoiana-casino-resort-to-receive-overseas-customers\">The province of Quang Nam<\/a>, one of the major tourist destinations in Vietnam, has said it is ready to accept tourists, and the Hoiana club resort will be one of the locations to host international guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam&#8217;s Ministry of Transport has announced international flights could start to operate from December 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Vietnam's Ministry of Transport has announced plans to resume international flights from December 15, targeting key economic and political partners in two phases. This strategic reopening aims to revitalize the nation's tourism and gaming sectors, which have experienced significant revenue declines due to pandemic-related restrictions, particularly impacting casinos reliant on foreign patronage.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Transport, Reuters, Hoiana club resort","focusai_location":"Vietnam, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Singapore, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Paris, Frankfurt, Sydney, Moscow, Quang Nam","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.98), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.92), marketing_crm (0.85), gambler_consumer (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Projections?","query":"What are the projected GGR recovery timelines and potential upside for Vietnam's integrated resorts, specifically Hoiana, given the phased international flight resumption and historical foreign visitor dependency?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Changes?","query":"Will the Vietnamese government introduce any new regulatory compliance or governance frameworks pertaining to responsible gambling or player identification for the anticipated influx of vaccinated international tourists?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-25395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25412,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25395\/revisions\/25412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}