The new application is expected to improve tourists' experience while travelling in Vietnam. (Photo: congthuong.vn)

The app is available on both Android and iOS with the image of a lotus, a symbol of Vietnamese tourism.

Tourists can use Vietnamese or English to find information on destinations in the country, estimate the safety level and how the pandemic is controlled in the places they are about to go and find suitable services.

This year the number of foreign tourists to Vietnam is expected to drop at least 70 per cent, the outbound tourists are likely to drop 85 per cent, leading to the total income of national tourism industry decreasing 60 per cent compared with last year.