In the field of tourism in the world today, TripAdvisor.com (headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, USA) is the largest travel website in the world with more than 60 million visitors per month. Besides business and advertising functions, the website provides reliable travel consulting services from real travelers with hundreds of reviews each year from real travelers.
It is a place where tourists can share experiences, give comments, recommend entertainment places, evaluate the quality of tourism services... Based on the feedback and reviews of tourists, TripAdvisor will classify and rank tourist locations and services around the world, including museum systems. It can be said that TripAdvisor is the most prestigious travel review and ranking website in the world today.
For Vietnam, our country's tourist destinations appearing on TripAdvisor are still very modest, and for the museum industry, this number is even smaller. Up to now, there are only 3 Vietnamese museums honored by TripAdvisor: the Museum of Ethnology, the Vietnamese Women's Museum and the War Remnants Museum. As for the War Remnants Museum, during the period from 2010-2012, the Museum was twice in the Top 10 and Top 5 most interesting attractions by Vietnamese and international tourists along with tour companies. voting schedule.
- In October 2012, the War Remnants Museum entered the Top 10 most attractive museums in Asia voted by travel site TripAdvisor.
- In 2013, the Museum ranked 5th in the list of 25 most attractive museums in Asia.
- In 2014, the Museum was still in the Top 25 most attractive museums in Asia but fell back in terms of ranking, only ranked 11th.
- In 2015, the Museum had an impressive return in terms of rankings, ranked 2nd in the Top 10 most attractive museums in Asia.
- In 2016, the Museum still maintained the 2nd rank in the Top 10 most attractive museums in Asia. In addition, this is also the first year the museum entered the Top 25 most attractive museums in the world, ranking 23rd.
- In 2017, in the ranking of the most attractive museums in Asia, the War Remnants Museum dropped to 9th place but increased in the Top 25 most attractive museums in the world, ranking 21st.
- In 2018, for the first time, the War Remnants Museum entered the Top 10 most attractive museums in the world, ranking 10th. This is also the first year that the War Remnants Museum ranked first in Asia for the museum category. The most attractive museum for tourists.
Looking back at the whole journey since being honored and voted by TripAdvisor, the ranking of the War Remnants Museum has changed over the years, but in general it is stable and increasingly improving. That is an achievement and also the driving force for the Museum to develop further in the future.