According to the People's Committee of Hoi An City, since 1995, Hoi An has served domestic and international visitors by issuing "Hoi An Ancient Town Visit Tickets", now called "Hoi An Ancient Town World Cultural Heritage Visit Tickets".
The issuance of package tickets for tourists has received consensus from tourists and the business community and has been evaluated by UNESCO Asia - Pacific as a typical model of "using relics to nurture relics". Revenue from selling entrance tickets has increased every year, reaching nearly 76.5 billion VND in 2013 and over 266 billion VND in 2018. From this source of revenue, Hoi An focuses on investing in the restoration and embellishment of architectural relics.
Every year, Hoi An welcomes a lot of tourists.
However, the method of selling tickets, controlling tickets, and making financial payments for the relics on the tour route is completely done manually, causing many problems that have not been completely resolved. Therefore, the most interested and highly feasible solution is to replace traditional entrance tickets for tourists with "Tourist Passport" - an ancient town entrance card or a digital entrance ticket, issued by Hoi An City.
With this project, instead of selling tickets manually as before, digital sightseeing tickets fully integrate the contents including ticket prices according to the regulations of Hoi An City People's Committee for visitors, information about tourist attractions and services in the old town. Tickets are issued in a package with optional relics including 3 attractions for tickets for Vietnamese people and 5 attractions for tickets for foreigners.
Hoi An decides to "digitize" tickets to visit relics in the old town
According to the decision of Hoi An City People's Committee, from now until June 2020, the trial will be conducted at 4 ticket counters and 21 relics; by January 2021, the project will be completed, received from the equipment supplier to officially put into operation with a total investment of more than 5.7 billion VND.
