After 4 days of jubilant discovery, the 19th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival in 2023 with the theme "Vibrant Crossroads" associated with the program message “Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City” has officially ended to the excitement of residents, visitors, and businesses

Check out the results of some events in the framework of the 19th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival in 2023!

128 booths, of which 45 provinces and cities, 54 tourism and Travel businesses and other units…The Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2023 has opened up many interesting things for people and visitors. Both domestically and abroad, you can discover, experience, and prepare yourself for the most attractive and interesting gifts during the holidays of April 30 and May 1 and the upcoming summer. The organizing committee awarded 22 awards for standard and self-built booths, creating excitement in the units. The first prize for the self-built pavilion belongs to the Northwest Cluster, and the standard type of stall belongs to Dong Thap Tourism Promotion Center.

105 billion VND in revenue from businesses participating in the festival (VND 66 billion in 2022), the city’s tourism Industry expects tourists in the summer peak season to peak in terms of domestic and international tourists.

         The event attracted more than 190,000 visitors (an increase of more than 40,000 visitors compared to 2022) to visit, interact, and enjoy art shows in the space of 23/9 Park, such as: contemporary music, acoustic, performing on stilts, painting pebble art, workshops on drawing on bags, drawing ao dai on paper, rice paintings, intangible cultural performances, a carnival map game, cultural exchange programs, tourist destinations between provinces, tourism businesses for visitors to the festival... Besides, it also attracts 2,000 - 10,000 people to make a special edition. “Map of Vietnam" is equal to 100,000 toothpicks in the set of "Vietnamese Souls" with the message: CONNECTED - PROUD - LOVE - The work is expected to register a world record with the following criteria: First, a map is impressed by the world's most crowded participants; Second, a toothpick map of Vietnam is recorded by the largest artwork in the world.

       The event recognized the tourism stimulus package of the largest ever, many businesses promoted their strengths, successfully connected, formed tourism programs promising for a lively journey on this occasion. This summer, in association with reputable partners in the fields of finance, banking, to increase benefits for customers with preferential programs, the Tourism Festival offers many golden opportunities for visitors to own the most attractive holiday tour on April 30 - May 1 and summer in the market, with many attractive and practical gifts. Coming to this year's Tourism Festival is not only a trip but also a journey with new experiences and many memorable memories:

+ Nearly 100 inter-regional travel programs in the Mekong Delta, Southeast, Tay Nguyen, Central Region, and North with promotional prices reduced from 5 to 65% are organized by Saigon Tourist, Vietravel, Ben Thanh Tourist, Saco Travel, Dat Viet Companies, TST, Vietluxtour, World Travel, etc.

+ 50 city tour programs and 20 river tours visiting Cu Chi and Can Gio by CCCTravel JSC, Saco Travel, Saigontourist, Trieu Hao, TST, Vietravel, Vina Group, Vietourist, Vietluxtour, Golden Smile….

+ 34 accommodation establishments responded to the policy of stimulating tourism by announcing many preferential product packages, giving gifts, vouchers, and lucky draws, and reducing room rates from 10% - 45% for staying guests;

+ 09 shopping malls discount of 5% - 10% for some items and some accompanying gifts;

+ 05 attractions with a 30% - 50% discount on admission tickets on the occasion of the Hùng King's Temple Festival, Liberation Day, and International Workers’ Day. 50% discount on entrance fees; traditional travel experiences for primary and secondary school students in the summer; gifts for the first 50 groups of guests who buy at least 5 entrance tickets; give customers a postcard; buy a tour guide ticket first and the customer pays the bill;

+ 02 health services with 20% discount for services;

160 delegates who are representatives of leaders of provinces, cities, provincial enterprises, journalists participating in and highly appreciating the quality of the and 4 tour programs introducing about destination of Ho Chi Minh City at 04 routes: (1) Eastern route (District 1 – Binh Thanh – Thu Duc); (2) Southeast route (District 1 – District 5 – District 7 – Nha Be – Can Gio); (3) Southern route (District 1 – Binh Chanh) and (4) Northwest route and link with Tay Ninh (District 1 – Hoc Mon – Cu Chi – Tay Ninh) with prominent destinations such as  Bitexco Sky Deck, Metro Station System, Thieng Lieng Community Tourism Destination in Can Gio District, Ong Ba Chieu Mausoleum, Ethnic History and Culture Park, A Glimpse of Vietnam Trade Village Tourist Area... linking routes with destinations in Tay Ninh province such as Ba Den Mountain tourist area, Tay Ninh Cao Dai Holy See, etc., delegates can experience different types of transportation vehicles, cars, canoes, bicycles, water buses… enjoy art performances such as Vietnamese opera, Lion Dance, Don sen art, etc.

Other events within the framework of the 19th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival in 2023:

+ The seminar "Training and Recruiting the tourism industry in Ho Chi Minh City in 2023" attracted the participation of 140 participants with many contributions, joining hands in efforts to connect service businesses, tourism services, and tourism training institutions to jointly find solutions to supplement the shortage of human resources for the units.

+ In 2023, there will be more than 25 tourism businesses participating in Job Exchanges in the tourism industry, connecting recruitment with the workforce, the student force of tourism training institutions. There are more than 1,000 job opportunities for employees when they come to join the recruitment session at the floor session, with positions such as sales and marketing manager; tour operator; customer service; tour guide; narrator; receptionist; room attendant; waiter and waitress; kitchen staff;...

+ A conference on tourism promotion for eight extended Northwestern provinces was held with the participation of 130 participants, who were representatives of businesses and journalists in Ho Chi Minh City and other localities. This is a forum to introduce, promote, and connect tourism between the North West region and Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces. At the same time, it is an opportunity for businesses to explore opportunities, cooperate in investment, exploit, and jointly develop tourism. At the forum, the provinces have exchanged and shared experiences to cooperate, promote, and jointly develop tourism to achieve the highest results, with a consistent view of always attaching importance to the role of the community. Businesses and investors attach importance to tourism cooperation and development as an inevitable trend of the tourism industry and consider the press and media as trusted friends and the fastest and most timely transmission partners, most precisely capturing the beauties, potentials, and attractions of tourism in the expanded provinces of the North West.

+ A conference on promoting tourism destinations in eight northeastern provinces attracted the participation of more than 100 delegates and journalists. At the Conference of the Northeast Provinces and Cities, they had the opportunity to introduce and promote the culture, potential tourist destinations, and strengths of the locality, and at the same time, listen to ideas to exchange, share, and close on the enthusiastic and very valuable contributions of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, the Vietnam Tourism Association, the Vietnam Society of Travel Agents, the Vietnam Community Tourism Chamber, and businesses. The conference also assessed the performance of the Joint Group of the eight northeastern provinces and Ho Chi Minh City in the period of 2022 – 2023. At the same time, at the conference, Bac Kan province's team leader awarded the flags in rotation for Vinh Phuc province and, in collaboration with Quang Ninh province, announced a "tourist route connecting Can Tho city to the northeast provinces via Van Don international airport (Quang Ninh)." This is an extremely eventful event. The purpose is to contribute to connecting, promoting, and expanding the tourism market of the eight northeastern provinces to tourists from the southern provinces and cities.

+ 360 nominations and candidates were made on the website https://100e.visithcmc.vn/ after 03 months of implementation, for the criteria of the program "Ho Chi Minh City - 100 interesting things" expected. The voting results will be a useful and practical travel guide for both domestic and foreign tourists during their visit and experience in Ho Chi Minh City, just like visitors just need to hold the book. In this guide, you will have a tourist map in your hand, free to explore interesting, unique, and unique aspects of the city.