Hanoi (VNA), Jan. 20 -- Hanoi's tourism sector needs to quickly restructure or risk falling behind other localities and struggling to post growth, given the sector's recovery will be a decisive factor in the capital's overall growth this year, according to Politburo member and Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue .

Tourism revenue, meanwhile, increased by an annual average of 17.6 percent.

Due to COVID-19 , the city welcomed just 1.11 million foreign arrivals and 7.54 million domestic visitors last year, respective falls of 84.2 percent and 65.6 percent against 2019. Revenue plummeted 73 percent.

Hue told a meeting on January 19 that tourism contributed 12.54 percent of Hanoi's gross regional domestic product (GRDP...