The festival was co-hosted by the municipal Department of Tourism and Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Agency with the participation of more than 150 booths from numerous tourism organizations and travel agencies operating inbound and outbound tours, with a variety of activities such as tour consulting, tour and airfare discount offers, new tourism product introductions, promotional gifts, and more.

Out of the 150 booths, 39 are from local tourism bodies, 44 are from Ho Chi Minh City-based travel agencies, and over 60 are from tour operators across the country.

Besides hosting cultural and artistic activities, the booths are also decorated with unique characters from the southern region to celebrate the 2016 National Tourism Year in Kien Giang with the theme “Exploring the Southern Land”. During the festival, a number of art performances, exhibitions, and seminars were also held.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Tourism festival has become an annual event, aiming to create opportunities for localities and travel agencies to display their tourism products and services to domestic and foreign visitors, especially domestic visitors with more than 10 million residents of the city. This is also a good chance for enterprises to build and affirm their trade names and conduct promotion programmes before the tourism season.

Quang Binh tourism, led by the Tourism Promotion Center in collaboration with many enterprises such as Sun Spa Resort, Tan Binh hotel, Chang Chang restaurant, Canh Buom Do restaurant, Quang Binh Travel Company.... attended the 2016 Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival with two booths which was designed to spread image of magnificent caves, beautiful beaches with white sand dunes and local specialities, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign visitors.

At the festival, the publications of Quang Binh tourism won the third prize in the selection award.

Reportedly, Quang Binh tourism will strive to welcome 3.3 million visitors in 2016. Ho Chi Minh City with more than 10 million residents and neighboring provinces will a potential market of Quang Binh tourism in the forthcoming time.

By Nhu Y
(Source: Xuan Hoang)