Promote Dong Nai image at tourism events

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Son Hung visited Dong Nai tourism booth at Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival, April 2025. Photo: N. LIEN

At some events such as: Southern Traditional Cake Festival, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival and Vietnam International Tourism Fair - VITM Hanoi 2025, Dong Nai's tourism display and promotion booth participated with images, specialties promoting and introducing Dong Nai tourism. In particular, the virtual space area to experience some destinations such as: Tran Bien Temple of Literature, Nhon Trach Tunnels, Nguyen Huu Canh Temple... attracted the attention of visitors.

Promoting Dong Nai tourism in digital space

Dong Nai is participating in the Vietnam International Tourism Fair - VITM Hanoi 2025 (VITM Hanoi 2025) which was opened in Hanoi on April 10. This is an international tourism event with the theme "Developing green destinations, elevating Vietnam tourism". VITM Hanoi 2025 brings together more than 450 booths of nearly 600 businesses and 60 tourism promotion agencies, 8 airlines and representatives from 16 countries and territories.

Sharing about Dong Nai's tourism booth, Director of the Provincial Tourism Promotion Center Tran Thi Thu Trang shared that at this year's VITM Hanoi 2025 event, Dong Nai participated in a booth introducing tourism potential and OCOP products (One Commune One Product Program) associated with tourism.

According to Ms. Trang, Dong Nai tourism booth has organized a virtual reality tourism exhibition to introduce and promote tourist destinations and tourism products associated with historical relics such as: Tran Bien Temple of Literature, Nhon Trach Tunnels, Nguyen Huu Canh Temple. Users can visit tourist attractions using smart devices such as: virtual reality glasses, interactive screens or on smartphones and tablets. Dong Nai has arranged interactive screens and virtual reality glasses, users can freely choose the travel itinerary they want.

With the smart touch system, visitors can actively learn information about tourist attractions. No longer limited by dry text, lines of text hung on the wall, the touch screen helps access information through documentary videos, high-quality images, multimedia effects, bringing a more vivid and attractive feeling.

In addition, information about the destinations is designed with many layers of content to help visitors explore every detail of the architecture and valuable artifacts. With an intuitive presentation, each outstanding feature, carvings, and construction materials will be analyzed in depth, helping viewers better understand the cultural and historical values ​​of the destinations.

Tours to experience tourist attractions using technology are considered a breakthrough in Dong Nai tourism industry, not only suitable for the trend of the 4.0 technology era, but also aiming for comprehensive digital transformation.

In 2025, Vietnam's tourism industry aims to accelerate tourism development, successfully achieving the target of welcoming 22-23 million international visitors, serving 130 million domestic visitors, and total tourism revenue growing by 12-13% compared to 2024.

Linking together to develop tourism

Before the VITM Hanoi 2025 event, Dong Nai also participated in the 12th Southern Traditional Cake Festival - 2025 in Can Tho city (Can Tho Cake Festival).

With the theme of Preserving and promoting the value of Southern folk cakes, the Can Tho Cake Festival has a scale of over 200 booths, gathering many folk cake artisans from provinces and cities across the country.

Attending the Can Tho Cake Festival 2025, Director of Thai Loan Tourism Company Limited Nguyen Thai Tuong Van commented that the cake festival brought a colorful cultural space with many attractive activities such as: Traditional cake making contest, cake making performance and experience, display and introduction of traditional cake space of 3 regions, space for displaying and selling OCOP products, regional specialties...

Ms. Van shared that participating in the festival event is an opportunity to learn more about the culinary culture of the Southern people, especially the provinces of the Southwest. This is an opportunity for her to experience Southern dishes, connecting destinations to introduce to tourists of Thai Loan Company when conducting tours to explore the West.

In addition to the Southern Traditional Cake Festival, there is also the 21st Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2025 (Tourism Festival). With the message of Convergence and Shine, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival has a scale of more than 100 booths from 41 provinces and cities and 32 travel, transportation and airline businesses.

During the event, there will be activities such as: Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Stimulus Program 2025; a series of seminars, conferences, job fairs, and discussions on issues of social concern related to the tourism sector; Travel Content Creator Contest... This is an opportunity for businesses to introduce their products, advantages, and tourism potentials, typical services...

Visitors can visit and experience Dong Nai tourism products in virtual reality in digital space.

Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival has been held for over 20 years and has always received the attention of localities and tourism businesses nationwide. The tourism festival has contributed to promoting tourism development in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces and cities as well as the whole country, through the connection and cooperation for sustainable development between Ho Chi Minh City and localities nationwide.

To develop the tourism industry nationwide, on April 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed an official dispatch on promoting tourism development, ensuring double-digit economic growth.

According to the telegram, the Prime Minister requested central ministries and branches to promote tourism, proactively implement the Tourism Development Stimulus Program in 2025 and the following years; diversify and improve the quality of tourism products and services; accelerate digital transformation and green transformation in tourism development; create favorable conditions for tourists to access tourist destinations; study and specifically propose the application of convenient and flexible visa policies for tourists such as: visa exemption (including short-term visa exemption policy), improve visa approval procedures for tourists entering Vietnam under tourism stimulus programs, etc.

Ngoc Lien

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