Foreign travel firms to sound out business opportunities in HCMC

HCMC – Representatives of nearly 300 international travel companies keen on tourism products in HCMC and Vietnam as a whole will join the International Tourism Expo HCMC (ITE HCMC) from September 7 to 9 to sound out business opportunities.

According to the HCMC Department of Tourism, the 300 firms have been chosen from more than 700 tour operators in 40 countries and territories, including key markets of Vietnamese tourism such as the U.S., the UK, France, Italy, Germany, China, Japan, ASEAN and India among others.

Besides finding business opportunities, these firms will participate in programs introducing tourism products of HCMC, the Mekong Delta, Dalat, Ninh Thuan, Phan Thiet and Halong.

The event will be also attended by 40 journalists and professional tourism bloggers from many other countries.

Besides, high-ranking tourism officials will take part in a Tourism Ministerial Meeting involving Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to discuss solutions on tourism cooperation. This meeting is organized within the framework of the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS), which is a political, economic, and cultural organization grouping Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar.

Several tourism management and promotion agencies will also meet with enterprises over the development of Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) tourism in HCMC, and in other tourism markets such as China and Malaysia.

ITE HCMC is annually held by the HCMC Department of Tourism, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, the HCMC government, Vietnam National Trade Fair and Advertising Company (Vinexad), and Informa Exhibitions Co Ltd under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The event this year will feature 300 booths covering a total area of nearly 7,000 square meters at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in District 7, HCMC, up 15% versus last year.

Travel companies and tourism promotion agencies from 18 countries and territories will also join in the expo, which will be opened to the public on September 9.

Source: The Saigon Times

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