Vang Vieng Aims for 2 Million Tourists, Infrastructure Focus

Vang Vieng, Laos, has set a goal to draw 2 million vacationers in 2025, with an anticipated revenue of LAK 1,700 billion (USD 78.6 million). The district plans to deal with selling annual occasions and bettering infrastructure to assist the expansion in guests.

Atthayasay Manivanh, Head of the Vang Vieng District Workplace of Info, Tradition, and Tourism, highlighted the significance of festivals comparable to Nang Sangkhan (Miss Pi Mai Laos) and the Candy Orange Pageant in drawing vacationers. These occasions, held yearly, will probably be central to the district’s tourism promotion efforts this yr.

Infrastructure enhancements are additionally a key precedence. This consists of highway repairs, significantly round main vacationer websites, and enhancing lodge companies by way of employees coaching and workshops.

Vang Vieng at the moment provides 36 pure points of interest and a spread of actions, together with scorching air balloon rides, mountaineering, mountain climbing, and boat excursions. The district goals to construct on the 1.4 million guests it acquired in 2024, which generated LAK 1,241 billion (USD 57.4 million) in revenue.

With these initiatives, Vang Vieng is making ready for a major enhance in each home and worldwide tourism in 2025.