This year's expo, with the theme “Growing Forward Together,” will take place at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center.
It is expected to provide a great opportunity for Vietnamese travel agencies to recover and develop after the COVID-19 pandemic while connecting them with international partners and customers.
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The organizers introduce the travel expo at the press briefing. |
1,500 international delegates from travel agencies and brands, airlines, hotels, and resorts both at home and abroad have registered to attend the expo.
Currently, the expo has 260 registered booths, and 210 among them are from foreign countries.
The organizers have invited 160 international partners from 18 countries and territories such as the U.S., Australia, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Romania, Poland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Thailand, and Singapore to join this year’s event.
Within the framework of the expo, there will also be a high-level conference on tourism development policy with the participation of representatives of countries in the Lower Mekong Region, India and Cuba; the Vietnam MICE Tourism Forum, and the Vietnam Night - Gala Dinner themed “The Essence of Vietnamese Rice,” to name but a few.
In addition, a series of workshops about major and potential tourism markets, digital transformation in tourism, and tourist attractions, will be held.
According to Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, Director of the Ho Chi Minh Municipal Department of Tourism, ITE HCMC 2022 will constantly improve its scale and quality to partly contribute to promoting the recovery of tourism in Vietnam and the region. Notably, the World Travel Awards’ selection of Ho Chi Minh City as the venue for the Asia and Oceania Awards Ceremony on the eve of the opening of ITE HCMC 2022 has affirmed the city’s position in the global tourism map, she added.
Translated by Song Anh