The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in developing tourism and healthcare effectively and sustainably in the 2025-2030 period.
The two sides will cooperate to maximize the potential, advantages, and resources of the healthcare and tourism sectors, contributing to the socio-economic development of the country in the new era.
In particular, building the Vietnamese brand to become a destination with prestigious tourism and medical services in the region and the world, increasing the attraction of domestic and international tourists to use tourism services and medical services at medical examination and treatment facilities in Vietnam.
The two sides cooperated to build a system of linkage between medical services and tourism and resort services to attract tourists and promote Vietnam's potential and advantages in medicine; create favorable conditions to deploy a model of tourism services combined with medical services to improve the capacity to provide medical tourism services associated with tourism development.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Health coordinate to develop, advise, propose, and submit to competent authorities to issue policies to facilitate tourism businesses' access to medical examination and treatment facilities providing quality medical services; at the same time, support medical facilities to develop strategies and specific service packages to attract tourists to use medical services; direct medical examination and treatment facilities under their management to increase human resource training, raise awareness of tourism and health.
The tourism industry expands and encourages health care tourism services to connect with medical facilities in tourism service establishments and specialized activities; The health sector increases investment in high-quality services, connects with travel businesses to promote the attraction of foreigners to Vietnam for medical examination and treatment.
The tourism industry also promotes annual tourism promotion programs, focusing on coordinating with medical examination and treatment facilities to introduce Vietnam's medical strengths such as: Traditional Medicine, high-quality, specialized medical examination and treatment services, etc.
The health sector coordinates with the tourism industry to build content introducing the quintessence of Vietnam's medicine, appropriate health-related tourism service packages and participate in domestic and foreign tourism promotion programs.
At the signing ceremony, the two Ministries of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Health and other units pledged to implement coordination contents, ensuring the effective and sustainable development of the tourism and health sectors, while actively contributing to the development of the country in the new era.
