State management, market and price regulation have been tuned to meet the requirements of movement and development of trade. The control and regulation of key commodities have made progress, preventing adverse effects of world market prices on the domestic market.
The tourism sector has shown a quite rapid advance. The number of foreign tourists to Vietnam has increased from 2.1 million people in 2000 to 3.47 million in 2005, which meets the set objective. Domestic tourism has been paid more attention. The number of domestic tourists rises from 11.2 million in 2000 to 15 million in 2005. Tourism market has been widening. The forms of tourism have strongly diversified with richer and more attractive tourism products to exploit tourism potentials. Tourism turnover has increased dramatically, which helps create jobs, reduce poverty, eliminate hunger and shift economic structure. Tourism infrastructure and legal environment for tourism activities have been improved. The link among tourism, transportation and other industries has been promoted, creating solid premises for tourism development in the period from 2006 to 2010.
The transport sector has continuously developed, basically satisfying requirements on goods circulation and people’s travels, with various means of transport and convenient modes. Its infrastructure facilities and transport quality have remarkably risen. The volume of goods circulation increases by about 9.78% on the average while the volume of passenger traffic increases by 10.61% per annum. The annual volume of goods throughput via seaports increases by 9.8%.
The sector of postal services and telecommunications has rapidly developed; the network of telecommunications has been modernized. In five years (2001-2005), 12.56 million new telephones were installed. It is estimated that by the end of 2005, Most of communes have had commune cultural post offices, and there were 2.89 million Internet subscribers, i.e. an
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average rate of 3.2 subcribers/100 people. The sector's total turnover has increased at an annual average rate of 19.9%/year.