Attending the ceremony were Mr. Nguyen The Manh, Deputy Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Committee; Ms. Trinh Thi Thuy, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Mr. Ha Van Sieu, Deputy Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism; Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen, Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee... Along with representatives of provinces, cities, units, embassies and enterprises.
Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy delivered the opening speech at the fair.
Reporting on the organization of the ceremony, Ms. Cao Thi Ngoc Lan, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Tourism Association, said that the theme "Developing Green Destinations - Elevating Vietnam Tourism" at VITM 2025 aims to focus on developing Vietnam's tourism destinations to achieve the title of Green Tourism, contributing to enhancing the brand of Vietnam Tourism in terms of ensuring the environment, security, safety and attractiveness for tourists. Activities at the Fair contribute to promoting localities and tourism businesses to focus on building green destinations, green tourism products, training a workforce with knowledge of green tourism, promoting green to contribute to elevating Vietnam tourism, soon making Tourism a green economic sector of Vietnam.
In addition, at the Fair, some achievements in digital transformation, especially the application of artificial intelligence and the use of robots in the tourism and service sectors were also introduced to prepare for the digital transformation movement in Vietnam tourism.
Delegates press the button to open the fair
Speaking at the opening of the fair, Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy affirmed that in recent years, the tourism industry has always received the attention and close direction of the Party and the State. Many policies and guidelines have created conditions for the tourism industry to recover and develop, especially "Directive No. 08/CT-TTg dated February 23, 2024 of the Prime Minister on comprehensive, rapid and sustainable tourism development in the coming time" has been strongly implemented by the tourism industry nationwide and achieved impressive results.
The Deputy Minister emphasized that, in addition to the efforts of state management agencies, Vietnamese tourism enterprises, the Vietnam Tourism Association and the Tourism Associations of provinces and cities have actively contributed to the above success. VITM 2025 will witness a new activity of Vietnamese tourism enterprises in implementing the strategic orientation of the Party and State on Green Transformation, an important trend of global tourism with the theme "Developing green destinations - raising the level of Vietnamese tourism", the Vietnam Tourism Association and tourism enterprises are carrying out a specific activity so that tourism will soon be in the top of the green economic and circular economic sectors of Vietnam.
Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy and delegates visited the booths.
"The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism always supports the activities of the Association and hopes that the Tourism Associations will further promote the role of professional social organizations, gather businesses, and accompany state management agencies to develop Vietnam Tourism to its full potential, from building new and suitable products, improving the capacity and professional skills of the workforce, promoting and expanding the market so that Vietnam Tourism can develop in both quantity and quality, improve competitiveness, and make Vietnam Tourism truly a spearhead economic sector, contributing worthily to the development of the country in the new era - the era of striving to develop richly and prosperously for the nation" - Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy said.
VITM Hanoi 2025 attracts the participation of 60 domestic and foreign Tourism Promotion Agencies, 8 airlines, 16 countries and territories and more than 600 businesses with 450 booths. At the Fair, visitors will have many interesting experiences when coming to the promotional programs at the Fair such as tours, air tickets, hotel rooms, local OCOP products and many attractive destinations across the country. According to information from the Organizing Committee, there have been 1,228 appointments on the VITM system. At the Fair, HHDLVN organizes an area to introduce some successes of the digital transformation program, including introducing typical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) of Robot in the field of travel, hotels and tourism services.
At the Fair, there will be many meetings between businesses and businesses (Business to Business - B2B); businesses and consumers (Business to Consumer - B2C); Vietnamese and international tourism promotion agencies will organize many tourism promotion activities, introduce tourism products, destinations, tourism stimulus packages, new technologies and tourism trends; promote tourism programs and events of localities, businesses, domestic and international destinations...
VITM 2025 will take place for 4 days from April 10 to April 13, 2025, at the ICE Hanoi International Exhibition Center.
Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/khai-mac-hoi-cho-du-lich-quoc-te-viet-nam-2025-vitm-2025-20250410095338205.htm
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