Ben Thanh Market, a tourist destination in HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCMCity (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City is seeking to enhance connectivity withother localities nationwide to become more attractive to tourists.
Tuoi tre (Youth) Newspaper held a forum oninter-regional tourism connectivity of the southern economic hub of Vietnam onApril 4.
Director of the municipal Tourism Department BuiTa Hoang Vu said HCM City is a hotspot for many outstanding tourism productsnationwide like MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions),shopping-entertainment tourism and cultural-culinary tourism. It is amust-visit destination for tourists to Vietnam.
The city welcomed more than 1.3 million touristarrivals in the first three months of 2018, he noted.
However, to develop tourism sustainably,cooperation is needed, he said, adding that inter-regional tourism connectivitydoes not reduce the strength and market share of each locality but increasestheir competitiveness and expands their market more easily, thus creatingunique tourism products, lengthening tourists’ stay and boosting revenue.
HCM City is enhancing bilateral and multilateralconnections with localities in Dong Thap Muoi sub-region, the east of theMekong Delta and the northern, central and Central Highlands regions. It willalso continue carrying out solutions to attract tourism investment, Vu added.
🔯[HCM City eyes 7.5 million foreign visitors in 2018]
Trinh Hang, Director of the Culture, Sports andTourism Department of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, said after years of tourismcooperation with HCM City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau has become a familiar destination fortourists visiting HCM City. More than 85 percent of visitors to Vung Tau citycome from HCM City.
Several travel companies, hotels, restaurantsand resorts in HCM City have established branches in Vung Tau, helping to raiselocal tourism revenue.
Hang said his province will continue workingwith the nearby city to provide more tourism products and attract domestic andforeign visitors.
Addressing the forum, Vice Chairman of the HCMCity People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem affirmed that the city’s tourism must beconnected with other regions nationwide to develop sustainably. The localsector has inked cooperation agreements with 36 provinces and cities.
He said it will continue connecting localbusinesses, improve tourism manpower training and develop HCM City’s image as asafe, attractive and friendly destination for foreign visitors.-VNA
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