This year, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism coordinated with the City Tourism Association to organize the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2021 online on the official website, the website of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism and a number of e-commerce platforms and travel agencies such as Shopee and Traveloka.
With the theme "Safe destination - vibrant journey", and the motto "Wherever it is safe, open it up, when it is open it must be safe", the festival space will be applied with 2D and 3D technology, with the participation of 100 virtual booths. These virtual booths are divided into two groups, including a group for businesses in tourism, transportation, services, souvenir products, etc. and a group for local tourism management and promotion agencies, representative offices, and international tourism organizations.
Representatives of the Department of Tourism and the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association announced the plan to organize the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival in 2021 - Photo: Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism
The Organizing Committee encourages booths to apply technology and artificial intelligence in design and layout to increase the effectiveness of product and destination introductions as well as interactive activities, to ensure the needs of visitors to visit, learn and shop. Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2021 is also an opportunity for provinces, cities and businesses to introduce new destinations, typical tourism products and newly launched technology applications in the tourism industry.
When participating in the online fair, visitors can not only visit and learn, but also book tours or products from businesses at preferential prices, with discounts from 10 - 50%.
Within the framework of the Festival, there are also tourism-related activities such as a campaign to contribute ideas to restore tourism in Ho Chi Minh City, a creative startup competition with the theme "Joining hands to restore tourism", and an online seminar on solutions to promote the application of information technology in tourism.
Also during this time, online platforms will host activities of the 2021 Concentrated Promotion Month organized by the Department of Industry and Trade in coordination with the Department of Tourism and the City Department of Health.
Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2021 Schedule
6:30 p.m. December 4, 2021: Opening ceremony
10:00 a.m. December 5, 2021: Launching ceremony of the Campaign for Suggestions to Restore City Tourism and the Creative Startup Competition with the theme "Joining hands to restore tourism"
14:00 December 5, 2021: Online seminar on solutions to promote the application of information technology in tourism
7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. December 5, 2021: Online meeting and exchange program with Ngo Tran Hai An, Khoai Lang Thang, Nhi Dang
Shopping and information activities continue to take place on online platforms until December 25, 2021.
