At the end of the year, the tourism industry in Ho Chi Minh City focuses on promoting and advertising destinations and improving product quality to attract tourists. This also helps to enhance the experience, prolong the stay of foreign tourists, and encourage increased spending by tourists.
Local tourism businesses also invest in local tours such as exploring the city at night, exploring culture and history, double-decker buses, river buses...
According to statistics from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, in the first 11 months of 2024, international visitors to the city are estimated at 5,336,000, reaching 88.9% of the 2024 plan; domestic tourists to the city are estimated at 34,132,034, reaching 89.8% of the 2024 plan.
Total tourism revenue in 11 months of 2024 is estimated at 173,553 billion VND, reaching 91.3% of the 2024 plan.
To achieve this result, in recent times, the city's tourism industry has focused on developing tourism products, implementing tourism development linkage programs between localities, promoting tourism...
At the end of October, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism coordinated with the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore to organize a program to promote Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City tourism in Singapore. The program promoted the image of Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City tourism destinations to Singaporean tourism businesses and promoted trade connections between tourism businesses.
In order to attract a large number of international tourist groups to Ho Chi Minh City to organize conferences, seminars, incentives, exhibitions and combine sightseeing tours (MICE tourism), the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism has developed preferential policies for MICE tourist groups, MICE service organizers and providers.