Delegates at the signing ceremony on developing golf tourism products in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism and the VietnamGolf Tourism Association on February 28 jointly launched a golf tour service to promotethe new product in the city.
Addressing the event, Le TruongHien Hoa, deputy director of the department, notedbesides events to promote tourism, the city’s tourism industry also focuses onimproving the quality of services and building new products to enrichvisitors' experience. The industry prioritises some types of activities in themiddle- and high-class segments such as golf tourism.
HoChi Minh City, one of the major economic, cultural and tourist centres of thecountry, boasts a modern, world-class golf course system and a variety of qualityand diversified tourism services, said Hoa, adding two large golf courses, namely TanSon Nhat and Thu Duc, and many adjacent golf courses are becoming attractivedestinations.
The first group of 20 golfers from Singapore take a city tour on a two-deck bus. (Photo: VNA) Meanwhile,Trinh Thanh, general secretary of the Vietnam Golf Tourism Association, saidthat developing golf tourism not only helps diversify products and improve competitiveness of the industry, but also attracts potential visitors with large spending and long stay, while stimulating the luxury resort segment.
Currently Vietnam is home to about 100,000 golfers and 100 golf courses in operation, of which 32 are ofinternational five-star standard along a coastline adjacent to luxuryresorts. In 2021, it was selected by the World Golf Awards (WGA) as the World’sBest Golf Destination, and thousands of international guests bookedpost-pandemic tours to experience the service in the country.
This was the second time that Vietnam had received the titleawarded by the WGA following the first in 2019, surpassing the top golfdestinations such as the US, New Zealand, China, Thailand, and the Republic ofKorea.
A cooperation agreement on developing golf tourism products inthe locality was signed at the event./.
