A Tourist's Guide to Love is a 2023 romantic comedy film directed by Steven K. Tsuchida and written by Eirene Tran Donohue.
Amanda Riley, a travel industry professional for Tourista, undertakes a covert mission to study Vietnam's tourism sector after her five-year relationship with John ends unexpectedly.
Amanda is met at the Vietnamese airport by Sinh, the tour guide for Saigon Silver Star, and his cousin Anh, the owner's daughter.
She starts to leave her comfort zone through bartering, tasting exotic foods and learning to cross a busy street without a crosswalk.
At a temple, Sinh pulls some strings so his group can watch preparation for the lion dance for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration Tết.
At a seamstress store, the group gets clothes tailor made as a Tết custom to wear something new with bright colors to invite luck and prosperity.
As the others rest before dinner, Sinh takes Amanda to a tiny street decorated with bright paper lanterns, where he opens up.
Amanda calls Mona to tell her of her unintentional love triangle with the comfortable John and the adventurous and exciting Sinh.
As the group sits outside chatting happily about the show and having street vendor food, Anh hears that Tourista has bought the tour company.
In April 2021, Variety reported that Rachael Leigh Cook would star in and produce a romantic comedy, A Tourist's Guide to Love, that is based on an original idea of hers, with Eirene Tran Donohue writing the screenplay.
Despite her praise of Cook's "likability" and Ly's charisma and "understated delivery", she concluded that the story was simply "as harmless as its blandly forgettable title would suggest".
"[10] Elisabeth Vincentelli writing for The New York Times, also panned the film for its lack of originality and found that the "soundtrack's catchy Vietnamese songs provide the only fizz in this otherwise flat concoction.