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 The annual International Travel Expo scheduled for September 30 to October 2
in HCMC’s District 7 will highlight river tourism and health tourism in the
city as well as the world heritage sites in the country, the organizer said.
Nguyen Bao Anh, deputy head of the Tourism Promotion Division under HCMC’s
Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that the organizing
committee would set up booths to promote above-mentioned products and
tourist sites alongside the booths of tourism service providers.
The event at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center will also
incorporate a conference to promote destinations of Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia with a focus on river tourism with an aim to link up the river
routes of the three countries.
Under the theme “Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam - Three Countries, One
Destination,” the travel expo will feature a tourism exhibition, meetings
between travel buyers and sellers, free-show tours and seminars. The expo
will also include the ASEAN Tourism Investment Forum.
The event organizers are the city’s Tourism Department, IIR Exhibitions Pte
Ltd and VINEAX.
Anh said 266 tourism service buyers from 43 countries put their names down
to join the travel expo.
Up to now, 62 exhibitors have booked booths at the expo, including tourism
service providers and provincial tourism promotion departments from Binh
Thuan, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Khanh Hoa, Lam Dong, and foreign tourism
promotion departments of India, Cambodia, Taiwan, and South Korea. Anh said
the organizing committee would continue to receive registrations of
exhibitors.
In addition, five international media agencies named Travel News
Weekly/Travel World (China), MICE in Asia (Malaysia), Travel for Life
(Russia) and CNN Traveler (America) have registered to join the expo.
The city’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism is asking international
airlines like Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Singapore Airlines, and
Turkish Airlines to support guests and organize familiarization trips during
the event.
Source: VNN/SGT
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