Notably, there are 4 mid-range waterway tourism routes departing from Ho Chi Minh City to Binh Duong and Dong Nai with routes passing through golf courses with the aim of serving golf tourism.
Some waterway tours that tourists can experience cost over 2 million VND such as: 1-day Cu Chi tunnel tour by speedboat departing regularly at 7:15 am and 11:00 am every day from Bach Dang Wharf (2.1 million VND), 1-day Can Gio tour by speedboat departing at 8:15 am every day from Bach Dang Wharf (2.7 million VND), Ho Chi Minh City - Binh Duong - Cu Chi tour departing from Bach Dang Wharf - Tiamo Wharf - Cu Chi Tunnel (2.7 million VND), Saigon River upstream tour (2.5 million VND), tour to enjoy the beauty of the Saigon River for 30 minutes (from 2.9 million VND for a group of 10 guests)...
Many waterway tours launched in response to Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Week 2023
Besides, some tours have "softer" prices such as: sunset tour on Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe canal departing at 5pm daily for 250,000 VND, water transport route District 7 - Nha Be for 700,000 VND...
Thus, in total, Ho Chi Minh City has 47 tour programs, packages, and waterway products of 18 tourism businesses operating waterway transportation services. In District 7, the Ngoi Sao Viet wharf is oriented as the central wharf area. From there, waterway tourism routes departing from this wharf such as the inner-city waterway route, the route to Nha Be, the route to Can Giuoc, Can Gio, the route connecting to Dong Nai via golf tour are very convenient when traveling by high-speed canoe taking about 25 minutes.
Strive to make a difference
Also within the framework of Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Week 2023 with the theme "Green on every journey", District 7 People's Committee introduced the waterway tour "discovering the new urban area along the green canal" departing from Ngoi Sao Viet wharf. Ms. Nguyen Thi Be Ngoan, Vice Chairman of District 7 People's Committee commented that this is an event marking a breakthrough in creating new waterway tourism products that are attractive, unique, and competitive.
At the recent conference to deploy the plan to develop waterway tourism products in Ho Chi Minh City for the period 2023 - 2025, a representative of Les Rives Company Limited also informed that the company has 14 canoes and 3 large ships and recorded many customers returning to use the service in 2023.
However, businesses still face some difficulties when the ship inspection process and inspection time are prolonged, the number of crew members required on each vehicle is too large, the port authority procedures for issuing departure and return orders are also difficult, as well as regulations requiring standard buoys and licensed pontoon bridges... Typically, on the Long An tour route, the company that is taking customers there has been forced to close the product because it does not have a pontoon bridge according to regulations.
According to Ms. Bui Thi Ngoc Hieu, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, departments and branches have coordinated to survey inland waterway ports, determining which ports have tourism potential to upgrade and attract tourists.
According to the Deputy Director of the Department of Tourism, Ho Chi Minh City is calling for strong investment in infrastructure, technology, wharves, ship mooring grounds and arranging and planning wharves in the general planning development of Ho Chi Minh City in the period of 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2045. The city's tourism industry strives to 2030 Waterway tourism becomes a distinctive tourism product with the total number of waterway vehicles serving tourists by 2025 reaching 200 canoes, 100 ships, boats and yachts of all kinds.
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