Around 60 percent of travel companies in HCM City have resumed operating while the rest are expected to regain business in the fourth quarter of the year, according to the city’s Department of Tourism.
With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic finally being brought under control, local travel firms in Ho Chi Minh City have deployed a range of stimulus tourism schemes aimed at revitalising the southern city’s flagging tourism sector.
A week-long programme on introducing the special features of bánh mì (Vietnamese bread) has officially kicked off in HCM City.
Authorities in HCM City have ordered the closure of all restaurants, beer clubs and beauty centres from 6pm on Tuesday, March 24. The decision also includes barber shops and gyms.
Ten hotels and resorts in HCM City’s coastal district of Cần Giờ are being used as paid quarantine facilities with 486 rooms for people required to be under quarantine, according to the municipal Department of Information and Communications.
Ho Chi Minh City welcomed more than 1.18 million foreign visitors in the first two months of 2020, a year-on-year decline of 21.71 percent, revealed the municipal Department of Tourism on March 5.
Scenes of Ho Chi Minh City are featured in the latest trailer of Disney’s science fiction film entitled “Artemis Fowl”.
The seventh version of the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival has been delayed as a result of the ongoing situation relating to cases of acute respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), according to the city’s Department of Tourism.
The HCM City tourism sector will run a stimulus programme from April to July to revive tourism industry which has been hit quite badly by the new coronavirus outbreak.
Ho Chi Minh City will hold 15-minute fireworks displays at seven venues to welcome the Year of the Rat on Lunar New Year’s Eve (January 24).
Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities plan to focus on developing cultural tourism from now until 2030, speakers at a recent workshop held by the city's Department of Culture and Sports and the Institute for Development Studies.
Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 will organise Cho Lon Kitchen food fair at Van Lang Park in District 5 from January 11-12.