Since 2005, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival has been held annually in April and has become a major tourism stimulus with many attractive activities for domestic and foreign tourists coming to Ho Chi Minh City every summer.
This year's Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival will take place from April 11 to April 14, 2019 at Area B, 23/9 Park, District 1, marking the 15th time of organization, promising to continue to bring tourists many opportunities to experience attractive, new and deeply discounted summer tourism. This is an opportunity to help the Ho Chi Minh City tourism industry in general and tourism businesses, destinations, provinces and cities in particular, focus on promoting tour programs, tourism products and services during the summer to the market of more than 12 million tourism consumers in Ho Chi Minh City as well as neighboring areas, with the goal of attracting more and more domestic and foreign tourists to the City.
A large number of delegates and representatives of travel agencies attended the press conference of Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2019
At the press conference, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism signed a Joint Plan on coordination in implementing the Program to stimulate tourism at preferential prices for students, workers and laborers in 2019 with the Department of Industry and Trade, Department of Education and Training, Department of Culture and Sports, Department of Transport, Management Board of Export Processing Zones and Industrial Parks of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation, Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union, Ho Chi Minh City Youth Volunteer Force, Ho Chi Minh City Industrial Park Enterprises Association...
Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism signs a joint plan to coordinate the implementation of the 2019 tourism stimulus program.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, shared that the coordination between departments will contribute to promoting tourism activities, learning about culture and history of tourists, especially students, students and the labor force. This will help the process of promoting and introducing Ho Chi Minh City, an "Attractive - Friendly - Safe" destination, to be more attractive and effective.
The organizers presented flowers and took souvenir photos with representatives of travel companies.
Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2019 is expected to have more than 150 fair and exhibition booths of more than 40 businesses including: travel agencies, hotels; standard shopping and catering businesses; tourism transportation, domestic and international airlines, and districts in the city and more than 30 provinces and cities.
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Director of Kim Travel Company
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Director of Kim Travel Company, which has had very effective cooperation projects in the past with the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism in promoting the city's tourism image, confided: "I am very happy to see so many businesses, especially travel businesses, participating in today's press conference. And I hope that the upcoming Ho Chi Minh City Festival 2019 program will have many diverse activities, promising many experiences for visitors."
The press conference was attended by many reporters.
The Festival's space is expected to include 2 areas: a cluster of tourism booths focusing on introducing tourism stimulus programs of Ho Chi Minh City and other provinces; a cluster of culinary tourism booths introducing to visitors the diversity and richness of cuisine of Ho Chi Minh City and other regions. Accordingly, each booth will have its own design and space to show the characteristics and tourism products and services of each participating unit. Enterprises will organize meetings with customers, introduce themselves, and offer new and attractive tourism products and services through cultural and artistic activities, games with prizes and preferential tour prices. In particular, each day will have different new promotional programs to help customers have more choices.
The organizers expect that revenue and number of visitors purchasing tours during the 2019 Tourism Festival will increase by 20-25% compared to last year.
The Organizing Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival will create the most favorable conditions for tourists to visit and buy new and quality tours. This tourism event is expected to become a channel to communicate and promote prestigious and quality destinations for Ho Chi Minh City tourism, contributing positively to stimulating the tourism market, creating conditions for localities and businesses to access and introduce quality tourism products and services to consumers. It is expected that revenue and the number of visitors buying tours in this year's Tourism Festival will increase by 20-25% compared to 2018.
