(sonla.gov.vn) Opening the series of activities of the Northwest and Ho Chi Minh City Culture - Tourism Week 2023. On the afternoon of December 4, 2023, in Ho Chi Minh City, the Conference on promoting and promoting tourism in the Northwest - Ho Chi Minh City took place. The conference aims to introduce and promote the characteristics and strengths of culture, tourism and strengthen the linkage and promotion of the Northwest provinces to the people and tourists in Ho Chi Minh City.
Conference to promote and boost tourism in the Northwest - Ho Chi Minh City.
Attending the conference were Mr. Nguyen Van Dung, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; leaders of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the provinces: Son La, Dien Bien, Hoa Binh, Phu Tho and Ha Giang; and more than 100 delegates from the Tourism Promotion Center, Tourism Association, enterprises, cooperatives, travel companies from Ho Chi Minh City and the Northwestern provinces.
In 2023, the tourism development cooperation program between the 8 expanded Northwestern provinces and Ho Chi Minh City has achieved many good results. Through cultural and tourism events, tourism promotion and promotion programs, and in training tourism human resources, and promoting and calling for tourism investment. Members of the Cooperation Group have proactively and actively issued plans, organized and participated in annual tourism promotion events, planned events such as: Northwest Tourism Fair in Phu Tho province on the occasion of Hung Kings' death anniversary and the Culture - Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land; Ban Flower Festival 2023 and the 7th Dien Bien Province Ethnic Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival; Northwest Tourism - Culture Week in Can Tho city; Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival; Festival "Quintessence of the Northwest - Connecting Green Aspirations 2023"; Northwest Tourism and Culture Week at Hanoi International Tourism Fair; Northwest Tourism and Culture Week in Luang Prabang province (Lao PDR)...
The tourism promotion and advertising activities of the Cooperation Group have contributed to expanding the customer market and gradually affirming the prestige, image and brand of Northwest and Ho Chi Minh City tourism, successfully introducing and promoting the image and tourism products of the provinces to domestic and international partners, investors and tourists.
Delegates visited and took souvenir photos at the exhibition space introducing tourism products of Son La province.
Speaking at the conference, the leader of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Son La province said: In recent years, Son La province has become a safe and attractive destination in the Northwest region with many unique and diverse tourism products, notably the Moc Chau National Tourist Area, attracting millions of tourists each year. In the orientation of developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector, Son La province always identifies cooperation and market expansion as important tasks that need to be carried out regularly and continuously. Through the event of the Northwest - Ho Chi Minh City Cultural Tourism Week, it is an opportunity for Son La to seek investment and cooperation opportunities, form inter-regional and inter-provincial tours and tourism products, contributing to the overall development of the tourism industry.
Exhibition space for tourism products of the Northwestern provinces and Ho Chi Minh City
At the conference, delegates exchanged and discussed solutions to link tourism development between the Northwestern provinces and Ho Chi Minh City, tourism promotion, incentive mechanisms for cooperation between businesses; introduced unique and attractive tourist destinations, etc.
The Northwestern provinces and Ho Chi Minh City have arranged display spaces to introduce souvenirs, historical sites, scenic spots and typical tourism products.
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