At the opening ceremony (Photo: VNA) Over 150 booths are arranged at the four-day fair where 50 vendors from 45cities and provinces are touting promotion tourism programmes and products tothe visitors.
Nearly 400 low-cost tours, travel vouchers and discounted tourism services areon sale at the event, with a total value of some 50 billion VND (2 million USD).
Along with packages with steep discounts, there are many gifts and lucky draws whichare expected to bring fascinating experience to visitors.
Travel firms reported handsome sales right on the first day of the fair astheir packages were sold like hot cakes, earning them more than 26.3 billionVND in revenue, up 49% year-on-year.
The event features acoustic and stilt walking performances, an exchangeprogramme to introduce culture and destinations of different localities andvarious tourism promotion workshops, among others.
A highlight of this year's fair is a tourism career exchange that helps connecttravel businesses with workers and students.
According to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan, asa tourism hub of the country, HCM City has worked to develop specific plans andactions to bolster tourism post pandemic.
The fair is expected to enhance cooperation between travel firms and promoteregional linkages so as to improve tourism offerings’ quality and competitiveedge, he said.
In Q1, HCM City welcomed 1.38 million tourist arrivals, a year-on-yearsurge of 32.4% and accounting for 30% of the country’s total internationalvisitors. Meanwhile, it served over 8 million domestic arrivals, up 6.6% fromthe same time last year.
Tourism revenue was 44.7 trillion VND in the period, rising 23.8% year-on-yearand making up 23.7% of the country’s total earnings./.
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