Recently, the Ministry of Finance has issued Circular No. 12/2022/TT-BTC dated February 22, 2022 guiding the content and spending levels from the state budget for promotion, advertising and development support. tourism of the Tourism Development Support Fund.

The Circular provides detailed guidance for two groups of expenditures: Tourism promotion and publicity expenditures, including organizing activities to promote and promote Vietnam's tourism; develop e-marketing for tourism promotion and advertising; organize the production of publications and articles for tourism promotion and tourism, and build, develop and communicate Vietnamese tourism brands and spend to support tourism development; supporting training and fostering development of tourism human resources; supporting the implementation of tourism communication activities in the community. In particular, the content of "Building, developing and communicating Vietnamese tourism brands" is the new content with detailed instructions.

The Circular regulates and targets the interests of all entities operating in the field of tourism, including agencies, organizations, businesses and individuals. The central budget implements activities to promote, advertise and support tourism development at international, national, inter-regional, inter-local and inter-sectoral levels, contributing to enriching and diversifying tourism promotion activities. promote, promote. In addition, localities and businesses and employees will benefit through more direct support activities. The state budget allocated to the Fund can be used to support up to 50% of business activities. Fees for performing tasks are chaired and proposed by tourism organizations and enterprises (maximum support for 1 activity and 1 time a year).

In the face of the difficult situation due to the covid-19 pandemic, where tourism is the industry that suffers the most, this will be the driving force to help promote, advertise and support tourism development, using the allocated budget. for the Fund to support effective and economical tourism development. It is a good sign for the tourism industry in general and the promotion work in particular in a year with the expectation of a recovery from the tourism industry.

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