HCM City Announces Tourism Plan 2007

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Tourism has announced tourism events and promotion activities to be held abroad next year, aiming to attract more visitors to the southern metropolis in the year 2007.

 

The notification went out to more than 40 domestic and foreign travel agents, hotels and airlines from France, the US, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand.

 

Accordingly, the city will organize a number of festivals including the Vietnam-Korea Festival in South Korea and the Roadshow in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. It will also take part in the International Tourism Expo in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Travel Expo in Guangzhou, China.

 

Ho Chi Minh City has set up an advertising plan through which the city will invest more in printing leaflets to provide more information about the plan to foreign tourists and journalists in several of its focal markets such as America, Japan and Russia.

Ho Chi Minh City, the biggest city of Vietnam welcomed 1.67 million international visitors in the first nine months of this year, up 12 per cent year-on-year, said Nguyen Thi Lap Quoc, head of the department.

 

The city targets 2.3 million foreign visitors, and 3.5 million local visitors this year. Liberated Saigon Online, VietNamNet