Opening of the 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Vo Van Hoan, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, said that 20 years ago, Ho Chi Minh City organized the Tourism Festival for the first time with the expectation of creating a space to connect and introduce tourism products and services to consumers, contributing to stimulating tourism demand and contributing to industry growth.

Mr. Vo Van Hoan, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee delivered the opening speech.

The 20-year development journey is a process of constant innovation and creativity in content and form to become an annual, prestigious event, attracting a large number of businesses and localities nationwide and internationally to join; trusted and supported by the public, tourism consumers, domestic and foreign media agencies; contributing to building the tourism brand of Ho Chi Minh City in particular and Vietnam tourism in general.

The 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival has many rich and diverse activities.

This year's Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival has the participation of more than 150 booths from 45 provinces and cities and 50 tourism and service businesses.

Notably, the largest tourism stimulus program ever with nearly 400 tourism products and services, total incentive value of more than 50 billion VND.

In addition, the Workshop on Transforming Tourism Business Models to Update World Trends is a practical activity responding to the city's 2024 theme, aiming to enhance the capacity and skills of applying information technology of tourism businesses in building, marketing and communicating products to target customer segments.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho An Phong spoke at the opening ceremony.

In addition, this year's Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival continues to organize a survey route to introduce the city's typical destinations and tourism products, Famtrip programs, creating conditions for Ho Chi Minh City travel businesses and travel businesses from provinces and cities to survey, connect and exploit tourism programs...

At the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho An Phong said that among a series of tourism events held annually, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival is an event held very early and annually, achieving high efficiency.

Many attractive tour programs are introduced at Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival.

On the other hand, after 19 successful events, the event has achieved its goal of stimulating domestic tourism, creating an attractive playground for localities and businesses to introduce products, services, and link tourism development between Ho Chi Minh City and tourist regions across the country.

According to Mr. Ho An Phong, to maintain its leading role in developing tourism in the country and the country's innovation center, Ho Chi Minh City needs to continue investing in improving the quality of its unique tourism products to turn the city into a core tourism center in the South, focusing on building a cultural and historical brand that is more than 300 years old and is characteristic of a modern city, adding the sea, forests and river systems.

Program to introduce folk art of Ben Tre province.

“From the advantage of being a core tourism center, the tourism industry needs to continue to maintain and cooperate with eco-tourism in the Mekong Delta region to develop together.

Ho Chi Minh City needs to develop and perfect a smart tourism platform, "one touch - ten thousand experiences", enhance the convenience and experience of domestic and international tourists, contributing to visitor growth.

In addition, the city also needs to boldly have plans and attractive policies to turn Ho Chi Minh City into a regional MICE tourism center, competing with other destinations in Southeast Asia," Mr. Ho An Phong, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism emphasized.

Foreign visitors learn about tours on the opening day.

After the opening ceremony, the Organizing Committee announced the results of the selection of leading tourism brands in Ho Chi Minh City that have strived to overcome many difficulties and actively contributed to the recovery and development of the city's tourism industry.

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