Mekong Caravan tour connects tourism firms to needy communities
The Mekong Caravan tour, scheduled to start from Ho Chi Minh City on November 26, aims at linking tourism agencies to disadvantaged communities across the Mekong Delta, as heard at an event introducing the programme held in the city on October 28.
HCM City (VNA) – The Mekong Caravan tour, scheduledto start from Ho Chi Minh City on November 26, aims at linking tourism agenciesto disadvantaged communities across the Mekong Delta, as heard at an eventintroducing the programme held in the city on October 28.
Accordingly, 50 cars carrying 200 participants will travelthrough eight Mekong Delta localities – the provinces of Long An, Tien Giang,Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, and Vinh Long, and Can Tho city.
Trinh Nguyen Hung Dung, General Director of TNK Travel, saidthe 5-day journey will focus on charity activities suitable to each location.
Truong Duc Hai, head of the organising board of the tour,noted these activities include installing street lights for Khmer ethnic peoplein Tra Vinh; as well as presenting computers to a boarding school for ethnicminorities in Soc Trang, charity houses to poor households in Bac Lieu,scholarships to students majoring in tourism in Can Tho, and bicycles to pupilsin Ben Tre.
La Quoc Khanh, former Vice Director of the HCM City TourismDepartment, stressed the participation of more than 200 tourism firms in thecity and other localities nationwide reflects a trend of connecting for mutualgrowth among them./.
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