Tourism service

Foreign service providers are allowed to provide services in the form of joint ventures with Vietnamese partners without restriction on foreign capital contribution.

Enterprises providing services with capital Foreign investment is only allowed to provide service to bring guests into Vietnam tourism (inbound) and domestic travel for guests into Vietnam tourism as part of pandemic service give guest enter du calendar Vietnamese Male.

Tour guides in foreign-invested enterprises must be Vietnamese citizens.

2. Law of Vietnam

2.1 Conditions on the scope of travel service business: Foreign-invested enterprises may only provide international travel services for international tourists to Vietnam, except in the case of an international treaty to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member with different regulations.

2.2. Conditions for international travel service business include: (i) Being an enterprise established in accordance with the law on enterprises; (ii) Deposit for international travel service business at a bank[1]; (iii) The person in charge of the travel service business must have a college degree or higher, majoring in travel; If you graduate from a college or higher in another major, you must have an international tourism management certificate.

2.3. Conditions for foreign-invested enterprises providing travel services: (i) Foreign investors may contribute capital with Vietnamese partners to establish a travel service business in accordance with Vietnamese law and international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member; (ii)Conditions, dossiers, order, procedures and competence for granting, re-granting, renewing and withdrawing travel service business licenses for foreign-invested enterprises shall comply with the provisions of this Article. 31, 33, 34, 35 and 36 Law on Tourism 2017; (iii) Foreign-invested enterprises providing travel services have the rights and obligations specified in Clause 2, Article 37 of the Law on Tourism 2017.

2.4. Conditions for establishment of a representative office in Vietnam of a foreign travel service business:: (i) The establishment of a representative office in Vietnam of a foreign tour operator shall comply with the provisions of the law on commerce. (ii) The specialized tourism agency of the province shall receive, appraise the application, grant, re-issue, adjust, extend and revoke the license to establish a representative office in Vietnam of the foreign travel service business.

– Law on Tourism 2017

– Decree No. 158/2013/ND-CP dated November 12, 2013 of the Government providing for penalties for administrative violations in the fields of culture, sports, tourism and advertising.

– Decree No. 180/2013/ND-CP dated November 14, 2013 of the Government amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government’s Decree No. 92/2007/ND-CP dated June 1, 2007 detailing implement a number of articles of the Law on Tourism.

According to CPTPP, Vietnam reserves the right to adopt and maintain any measure related to tour guide services.

– Law on Tourism 2017