Ho Chi Minh City will buy unsold Tet flowers from traders to make a 'flower street of love'

At the regular press conference on Ho Chi Minh City's socio-economic situation on the afternoon of December 28, Mr. Le Truong Hien Hoa, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, said that Ho Chi Minh City has a policy of buying back unsold flowers from traders at Binh Dong Wharf (District 8) during the 2024 Lunar New Year to support people.

According to the Deputy Director of the Department of Tourism, the funding to implement this program is mobilized from socialized sources.

“To prevent flower traders from having to transport and then transport back flowers or destroy them, Ho Chi Minh City will use the charity fund to buy back flowers when they cannot sell them. The purchased flowers will be used to decorate the flower street at Binh Dong wharf and named the charity flower street. Hopefully, this will bring joy to people during the 2024 Lunar New Year,” said Mr. Hoa.

The spring flower market "On the wharf, under the boat" at Binh Dong wharf is a special market that Ho Chi Minh City residents and many tourists look forward to every spring. Most of the boats carrying Tet flowers here come from the Western provinces such as Ben Tre and Dong Thap.

Ho Chi Minh City will buy unsold flowers from vendors at Binh Dong wharf to make a flower street of love.

Also at the press conference, the Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism said that in 2023, the Ho Chi Minh City tourism industry will have many breakthroughs with many outstanding policies to remove barriers and promote tourism recovery and development.

“ Ho Chi Minh City continues to be the leading unit in the country in terms of visitor rate, revenue and contribution to Vietnam's tourism industry. In 2023, the tourism industry welcomed nearly 5 million international visitors and nearly 35 million domestic visitors.

Total tourism revenue is over 160 trillion VND. The tourism brand positioning is increasingly affirmed internationally; honored as “Asia’s Leading Business Travel Destination” and “Asia’s Leading Festival & Event Destination” in the top 100 most favorite tourist destinations in 2023 ”, the Deputy Director of the Department of Tourism added.

In addition, in 2023, Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry will also organize many activities and events with a green economic development program, green tourism, in line with world tourism trends such as: Developing community tourism products in Thien Lieng, Can Gio; participating in signing the implementation of ASEAN tourism standards in 2023; building eco-tourism models, agricultural tourism products, implementing training content for farmers doing tourism, designing agricultural tourism promotion products associated with specialties and strengths of agriculture, at the same time continuing to survey, evaluate and launch many attractive agricultural tourism products, reaching the experience needs of domestic and foreign tourists.

Besides, there are many other activities, notably the series of activities of City Tourism Week 2023 with the theme "Green on every journey".

These are not only fun and entertaining activities but also attract meaningful activities, responsible to society, to the natural environment, in line with the green tourism trend. All have created a lively and exciting picture.

Luong Y

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