Developing agricultural tourism
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, the city has developed tourism products associated with agriculture such as high-tech agriculture, picking fruits to enjoy in the garden and buying them to take home... which are loved by many tourists. Notably, in Can Gio district, there is a community tourism model in Thieng Lieng island hamlet, Thanh An island commune. When coming here, tourists experience new agricultural tourism activities such as: "bathing" in the forest, racing octopus, learning about salt making or enjoying local specialties...
You get to experience working in a salt village.
Similarly, Thu Duc city has recently developed a strong green agricultural tourism model with experiences such as visiting and picking fruit at the American fig garden. This is a unique tourism product, bringing memorable experiences to visitors in Ho Chi Minh City.
Tourists participate in picking agricultural products at the farms.
Accordingly, visitors can directly visit the garden, pick the fruit to eat or buy it at the garden without having to travel a long distance to the famous American fig growing land in Italy, Spain, Australia or the US. To meet the needs of visitors, the organizer is continuing to expand the scale of growing "unique" fruits for visitors to visit and learn about.
According to the survey, tourists coming to Ho Chi Minh City often have the need to choose destinations near the suburbs for relaxation and the suburban districts of the City have strengths in agricultural tourism products. However, agricultural tourism attractions in the suburban areas of Ho Chi Minh City are still limited, such as the products are available but not attractive enough to attract visitors, the capacity to receive visitors at the destination is not large enough, and the necessary living areas are not guaranteed.
Many tourists coming to Ho Chi Minh City tend to choose to stay in the suburbs for the convenience of experiencing agricultural tourism.
High-quality agricultural tourism products will certainly bring good impressions to tourists, especially groups of tourists who want to experience unique and diverse cultures. According to tourism experts, agricultural tourism is a unique product and will be a new trend to attract tourists, contributing to diversifying tourism products and building a brand for tourism here. However, Ho Chi Minh City also needs to pay attention to limit the massive development of agricultural tourism, because it will lead to consequences affecting the environment.
Agricultural tourism is predicted to be a booming trend in the future.
Ho Chi Minh City has many resources for developing agricultural tourism and also identifies agricultural tourism as one of the important types contributing to promoting tourism here. In the long term, Ho Chi Minh City plans to develop agricultural tourism combined with community-based eco-tourism to have more development potential.
