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especially during public holidays and Lunar New Year. Supermarkets,

markets, and business establishments were always open for service. On public
holidays, business establishments enhanced their service to habitants and
tourists, avoided business interruptions and shortages of goods, as well as

maintained stable market prices. Tourism activities, restaurants, catering
services, accommodation facilities and other services were always open to
serve habitants and visitors. However, during the year, gasoline prices always
fluctuated, affecting production and business activities and transport units.
Preliminarily in 2022, retail sales of goods reached 52,000.1 billion VND, up

15.04% over the same period last year.

Consumer price index (CPI) in December 2022 decreased by 0.08% over
the previous month, increased by 4.18% over the same period last year;
Average year-on-year CPI in 2022 increased by 3.61%.

As of December 31, 2022, the whole province had 138 ranked markets
(an increase of 01 market compared to that in 2021), of which: 01 market type

I, 13 markets type II, 124 markets type III. The province had 03 supermarkets
and 01 commercial center.

- Tourism: In 2022, the tourism activity gained recovery, boosting the
growth of local economic sectors. When the Government officially opened all
tourism activities to both domestic and foreign tourists, the number of visitors

increased over the same period last year. Many hotels, restaurants and retail
chains in tourist destinations were back to life. Travel agencies, other service
activities experienced many good changes compared to the same period last
year. Preliminarily in 2022, tourist accommodation establishments in the

province welcomed and served 5,632.5 thousand visitors, an increase of 3.2
times over the same period last year; the days of occupancy in tourist
accommodation establishments were estimated at 10,275.4 thousand, an
increase of 3.3 times over the same period last year.

International visitors to Binh Thuan began to show recovery and growth

signs compared to the same period last year, but the growth was not much.

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