On December 10, the People's Committee of Ca Mau province and the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City jointly organized a conference "Reviewing the program of linkage and cooperation in tourism development between Ho Chi Minh City and 13 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta" with the theme "Enhancing linkage - Sustainable development".
Mr. Le Truong Hien Hoa, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, informed that in 2023, the number of domestic tourists will still dominate in experiencing culture, ecology, rivers and gardens and enjoying Southern cuisine, mainly exploited by tourism and travel businesses in Ho Chi Minh City with more than 2.7 million tourists to the Mekong Delta region.
Ca Mau Cape Tourist Area
However, some key contents such as the plan to organize an international promotion conference to call for tourism investment in Ho Chi Minh City and 13 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta; building a website to promote tourism for the whole region, a conference to stimulate regional tourism... have not been implemented due to the influence of other professional contents and coordination work.
Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet, Director of the Southwest Region, Saigontourist Travel Service Company, commented: Information about the survey locations is still quite limited. Localities need to provide more images and information; and need a strong enough stimulus price policy to attract tourists.
Mr. Le Thanh Phong, Deputy Director of the Mekong Delta Tourism Association , commented: Tourism in the region has existed for many years without being overcome, such as local products developing mainly based on space, similar tourism resources, similar tourism products, and low specificity. In the region, only Phu Quoc (Kien Giang) is the most prominent, reaching international standards.
According to Mr. Phong, the biggest bottleneck is that access to destinations is still limited, especially the transport infrastructure, making it difficult to attract potential investors. Therefore, the direction is to clearly define the space for tourism development linkages between Ho Chi Minh City and 13 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta. In regional linkages, Ho Chi Minh City supports the development of tourism resources and products. Each locality must have at least one unique tourist destination for visitors to remember.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, Mr. Nguyen Minh Luan, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ca Mau province, said that in recent times, the coordination in implementing tourism development cooperation contents between Ho Chi Minh City and 13 provinces of the Mekong Delta has been promoted with many creative activities, promoting regional tourism with many changes, attracting the active participation of the business community, tourism associations and creating different values of the domestic and international tourism market.
Tourism products of the Mekong Delta region are similar, but not very unique.
Mr. Duong Anh Duc, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City, committed that Ho Chi Minh City will try to support the provinces and cities of the Mekong Delta through information technology to introduce them visually and effectively to tourists from all over the world. Not to introduce them in a general way but to have a regional orientation, to introduce unique products and destinations. Create the most favorable conditions for tourists to feel comfortable and spend. To invite tourists, there must be a solution to retain them and make them satisfied. To do so, it is necessary to improve the quality of services.
Orienting the contents of the connection in the coming time, Mr. Duong Anh Duc hopes that the tourism industry will coordinate with relevant departments and sectors to have measures and strategies to attract tourists. When tourists come, services and other sectors will develop accordingly. Thereby, there needs to be appropriate investments for tourism to develop.
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