Ho Chi Minh City tourism has welcomed more than 30 million visitors.

In the first ten months of 2023, Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry welcomed more than 30 million domestic and foreign visitors; revenue from accommodation and catering services reached VND 89,456 billion, up 30.6% over the same period; revenue from travel services reached VND 8,929 billion, up 68.3% over the same period.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, Director of the Department of Tourism, said that in terms of international tourists alone, in the first 10 months of the year, the city welcomed 4.12 million visitors, reaching 82% of the year's target.

To achieve this result, along with stimulating demand for inner-city tourism products and services, the tourism industry focuses on exploiting regional tourism linkage programs, including some key programs such as tourism linkage between Ho Chi Minh City and 13 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta; Southeast, Northwest, Northeast, North Central regions...

To achieve the goal of welcoming 5 million international visitors, more than 35 million domestic visitors, and total revenue of about 160,000 billion VND in 2023, the city's tourism industry continues to promote typical tourism products and services and the inner city through many exciting activities.

Typically, the 3rd Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Week 2023 (Tourism Week) took place for 7 days (from December 4-10, 2023) and received positive response from the tourism and travel business community.

In particular, the City Department of Tourism will coordinate with the People's Committee of Thu Duc City and districts to announce tour programs, packages, services, and promotional products of businesses with many gifts and preferential accompanying services for tourists to experience and visit during the Tourism Week.

Specifically, the People's Committee of District 1 launched the tourism product "District 1 - Colorful Nighttime". Many other districts will join and accompany the tourism industry to exploit local resources to become typical local tourism products.

Supermarkets and shopping centers in the city promote the "Green Consumption" program with many incentives for customers using personal bags, transportation units using green materials and vehicles will have incentives for customers whose destination is the tourist information space in the city.

The city's tourism and travel business community is stepping up the development of new tours and offering preferential policies for green tourism products and services to respond to Tourism Week. Tourist accommodation establishments are encouraged to organize a variety of green practice activities at hotels and use environmentally friendly materials, and offer incentives for customers to buy take-away items in personal containers...

Saigontourist Travel Service Company (Saigontourist Travel) is a pioneer in early implementation of domestic and international tour programs to welcome the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin 2024 with incentives for early tour purchases, groups can reduce up to 10 million VND/person and an additional 2 million VND for groups of 4 people.

Saigontourist Travel forecasts that the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin 2024 will have a holiday period of up to 7 consecutive days (from the 29th to the 6th of Tet), many tourists have planned early and carefully chosen their itinerary to have a satisfactory Spring trip.