After 4 exciting days with a series of seminars, tourism promotion conferences, unique cultural programs and especially the appeal of the tourism stimulation space, the Closing Ceremony of the 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival with the theme "Going green - Vibrant touch" associated with the program message "Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City" has officially ended in pride, excitement and excitement of people, tourists and businesses.

According to the assessment of the Organizing Committee, the 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2024 took place as planned, fully implementing the Festival's contents, ensuring safety in all aspects, creating an exciting atmosphere and a spirit of cooperation and attachment between the city's tourism industry and neighboring provinces/cities.

Previously, at the opening night of Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2024, Mr. Ho An Phong, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism also recognized and praised the initiative and initiative, Maintain the organization of Ho Chi Minh City's Tourism Festival. At the same time, emphasizing the material and spiritual foundations of the country's largest economic center, an innovation center of the country, through this Tourism Festival Program, Ho Chi Minh City will do a good job as the focal point for provinces, cities, and tourism businesses across the country to bring many safe and lively itineraries to attract domestic and international tourists as the message of the Festival.

• Take a look at the results of some events and numbers that confirm the success of the 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2024!

   

  + More than 150 units participated in the booth, from 45 provinces/cities and 50 businesses tourism and services with many diverse and practical activities (an increase of 20 businesses compared to 2023 ) ... Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2024 has opened up many interesting things for people and tourists. at home and abroad, you can explore, experience, freely choose and prepare for yourself the most attractive and interesting gifts for the holidays of April 30, May 1 and the upcoming summer.

   

  + The festival attracted 160,000 visitors , interacting and enjoying art programs in the September 23 Park space such as: Acoustic; cosplay performance on stilts; Workshop on painting bags/cup bases/fans or making scented bags from coffee grounds; Interactive Festival map activity; Exchange program to introduce culture, tourist destinations between provinces, tourism businesses... Especially the Program to Introduce and promote reality series about Ho Chi Minh City and exchange with Miss. Thuy Tien attracted 700 attendees ; The stimulus program "Ngao Du theo Gu" attracted 500 attendees .

   

  + The festival recorded the largest tourism stimulus package ever, meeting the diverse needs of domestic and foreign tourists. Many travel and accommodation businesses took advantage of this ideal time to introduce New tourism products and services suitable for many types of tourists, providing many golden opportunities for tourists to own the most attractive holiday tours on the market from April 30 to May 1 and summer. along with many attractive and practical gifts:

   

  ·         More than 400 products, programs, and travel services up to 60% off of travel service companies.

   

  ·         100 international travel programs and inter-regional city travel programs to experience the unique beauty of Ho Chi Minh City as well as the Mekong Delta and Southeast provinces with promotional ticket prices up to 35 % organized by Penguin Company, Asian Trail, Kiwi, Lua Viet, Vietnamese Style, Saco, Saigontourist, Thien Nhien, TST, Vietravel, Vietnam Adventure Tours, VinaGroup, ....

   

  ·         200 thousand vouchers, total discount value up to 50 billion VND from food service, shopping, health care, and entertainment establishments that meet standards to serve tourists.

   

  According to quick reports from tourism businesses, sales revenue over 4 days of operation is expected to reach more than 140 billion VND, an increase of 33.3% compared to 2023 (105 billion VND) and an increase of 16.67%. compared to 2019 (the year before the epidemic). This shows the extremely strong recovery and growth of Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry over each year of organization, especially the period after the City has completely controlled the epidemic by the end of 2022. 

   

  + 80 leadership representatives from the Department of Tourism; Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of provinces and cities; Tourism Association of provinces and cities; Travel enterprises in provinces and cities; Media units (newspapers, radio) participate in the survey program to introduce typical destinations and tourism products of Ho Chi Minh City .

   

  + The event received active media support from press agencies with 600 information articles on mass media, millions of viewers and comments on social networking platforms. 

Other events within the framework of the 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2024:

+ Workshop on converting tourism business models to update world trends with the participation of 200 delegates who are leaders of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The conference is an opportunity for experts in the tourism industry to share information and perspectives on changes in Inbound tourism trends in Vietnam in 2024. The conference was highly appreciated for the practicality of the speakers' presentations, helping businesses have more data and a basis to transform themselves in the context of constantly changing tourism trends. The 2024 target is 18-19 million - completely reasonable when the tourism industry takes action, keeps pace with market changes and continuously renews itself.

+ Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Job Exchange in 2024 has more than 25 tourism service businesses , solving more than 1,000 job opportunities for students about to graduate in the field of tourism. as well as freelance workers who come to participate in recruitment; has solved the problem of the difficult situation of the tourism industry. Reality shows that there is a lack of close connection between tourism human resource providers (tourism training establishments) and recruitment units (tourism service businesses). and recruitment so that both sides benefit and reduce costs in retraining personnel when recruiting. This is an event organized to improve the quality of tourism human resources and continue the success of the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Job Exchange in 2023, is a meaningful humanitarian activity to connect businesses and tourism training facilities, supporting businesses in recruiting high-quality labor through freelance labor.

+ Conference to promote and promote tourism in Thai Nguyen province in Ho Chi Minh City in 2024 and Conference to promote Nghe An tourism in Ho Chi Minh City with the theme "Journey to the source - the land of Nghe An love" with the participation of 400 delegates . The goal is to promote and introduce the tourism and service potentials of Nghe An to a large number of tourists in the southern market. Also at the Conference, there was discussion and cooperation signing between tourism associations such as Nghe An Tourism Association , Thai Nguyen signed a cooperation agreement with Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association and Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association. Travel to the Mekong Delta provinces. From there, creating strong links between businesses and tourism organizations to promote sustainable development of local tourism industries through road and air.

Speaking at the Closing Ceremony, Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, Director of the Department of Tourism , said: " In addition to the results achieved by tourism stimulation activities, this festival continues to be innovated in a professional manner." with a series of conference, seminar, and discussion activities, the tourism promotion program is very practical, both consistent with reality and updated with world trends aimed at transforming the development model, preparing Ready to turn a new page at the age of 20 with the desire for a greener, more sustainable, more vibrant future for the tourism industry of the City as well as the whole country .

The 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2024 ended successfully with results exceeding expectations. The success of the Festival is not only expressed through numbers, but also the emotions and excitement of visitors, especially the spirit of cohesion, cooperation and consensus of provinces/cities and businesses. tourism industry nationwide. Hopefully this success will continue to spread, promoting Ho Chi Minh City tourism to grow stronger in the future, especially providing more motivation for the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism to continue opening Expand the scale and improve the quality of the program for the 21st Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival in 2025.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF

THE 20TH HO CHI MINH CITY TOURISM FESTIVAL 2024