The launch of “The Viet-Smart Travel Card”  (Photo: Ngoc Anh/VOV5)

The card is integrated with multi-function facets in tourism, healthcare, banks, trade, transportation and education.

It is issued in two forms: both a physical card and a convenient E-card. The physical cards are issued at tourist sites, through tourist guides, accommodation facilities such as hotels, and with various tour operators. Visitors need to have their national IDs or passports to register for a card.

In the meantime, users can register a Smart Travel Card or e-card by logging into the app "Vietnam Travel".

Hoang Quoc Hoa, Deputy Director of the Tourism Information Center, has said the smart travel card is considered a national tourist card under the national digital transformation program.

“The commercial card is very convenient for international visitors and very simple to get one. Tourists can apply for the card from their home country on the ‘Vietnam Travel’ platform before coming to Vietnam,” Hoa explained.

Another possibility, said Hoa, is that when tourists book a tour through a travel agent, they can register with the agencies which will help them apply and register for a card and then, as soon as they arrive in Vietnam, they can receive the physical card.

The card was first launched in September of last year, with more than 2 million smart cards having been issued domestically.