With the theme “Lively Experience”, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2022 is expected to create a new breeze for tourism nationwide after the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; at the same time, opening up opportunities for businesses to promote new programs and products, stimulating domestic tourism in the summer of 2022.
At the press conference on May 5, Mr. Le Truong Hien Hoa - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism said: "In this year's Tourism Festival, we also promote regional linkage activities. Organizing famtrip tours for businesses and tourism management agencies of provinces and cities to participate in the festival to experience new tourism products of Ho Chi Minh City such as helicopter tours to see Ho Chi Minh City from above, cruise tours... These are products that we assess will make a great contribution to the city's tourism in the coming time."
The Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism also emphasized that during the recent April 30 - May 1 holiday, Ho Chi Minh City recorded a sharp increase in the number of visitors compared to 2021, with an estimated 186,000 domestic tourists and 13,200 international visitors.
Ho Chi Minh City welcomes more than 100,000 tourists during the April 30 - May 1 holiday
The event is expected to have more than 100 participating units. Among them, there are more than 50 provinces and cities nationwide, 38 tourism service businesses, 11 restaurants and airlines (Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air, Vietravel Airlines, Bamboo Airways).
Mr. Le Truong Hien Hoa - Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism spoke at the press conference. Photo: Internet
The booth space at the Tourism Festival will be arranged into 3 areas: tourism stimulus space, exhibition space for tourist destinations - Vietnamese regional specialties and culinary space.
The highlight of the event is the space to stimulate tourism, introducing to tourists a variety of new and rich tourism products of the city such as: Tourism program“See the city from above”,“Cruise on the Saigon River”; travel programs by road, water, air...
Within the framework of the festival, there are also seminars on "Regional linkage in training and developing high-quality Vietnamese tourism human resources after the COVID-19 pandemic", "Vietnam Tourism - Opportunities and challenges in summer 2022"; activities to meet and exchange with Travel Bloggers; introducing tourism programs linking Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta; a contest to design souvenirs for Ho Chi Minh City tourism; a program to introduce the intangible cultural heritage of the art of Bài Chòi, the play "City of Love", the final round of the Ao Dai Charming contest and learning about and experiencing medical tourism products - therapy...
In addition to the city's featured tour programs that have been announced, at the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2022, tourism products and destination images associated with the city's cultural - historical values, agricultural ecology, and natural experiences will be displayed, introduced, and promoted.
