Two joint tourism products are deployed: the "Journey to the roots" tour and the "Green tourism - exploring the garden in the heart of the city" tour. This is a product linking 4 districts in Ho Chi Minh City to promote and introduce to tourists the cultural characteristics, land, people, and history of the "Go Mon" area including District 12, Go Vap, Hoc Mon and Cu Chi districts.
According to Ms. Hoang Thi Thuy Phuong - Deputy Chief Inspector of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, this is the first cluster of linked products of the city's tourism industry to announce products under the program "Each district has a typical tourism product". These tourism products not only attract domestic tourists, but also spread the cultural values of Ho Chi Minh City to international friends.
In addition, the tourism industry of Ho Chi Minh City also develops products linking provinces and cities to enhance the experience for tourists and promote each destination. In particular, linking the development of river tourism is the orientation for developing tourism products of Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta.
Mr. Nguyen Van Dung - Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee stated that developing river tourism in Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces and cities of the Mekong Delta is one of the breakthroughs in the regional linkage program to build unique and highly competitive inter-regional tourism products, aiming at sustainable development for the whole region.
There is a lot of potential, but up to now, river tourism in Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces and cities of the Mekong Delta has developed slowly, not commensurate with the potential, there are not many river tours exploited. Many tours have very few customers.
To develop this tour, localities need to research and propose solutions to effectively develop river tourism and specific tourism products of the region. In particular, focusing on developing tourism products based on exploiting the strengths of river ecosystems, natural landscapes, marine and island tourism resources; renewing river tourism programs towards improving quality and enhancing experiences...
