On December 14, The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City held a conference on the development of passenger transport combined with waterway tourism under the chair of Deputy Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Bui Xuan Cuong.
In order to attract more tourists to Hanoi, the Hanoi Department of Tourism is focusing on developing regional tourism products.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport collaborated with the Municipal Department of Tourism along with relevant departments, sectors, agencies of two Mekong Delta provinces of Tien Giang, Ben Tre, travel agents, tourism and transport businesses to perform the survey of waterway tourism from Bach Dang Wharf in Ho Chi Minh City to the provinces of Tien Giang and Ben Tre.
As much as 16 percent of the natural area of Ho Chi Minh City is made up of rivers and canals, which creates a great resource for the city’s tourism development through the forming of diverse waterway tourism products, according to experts.
Waterway tourism businesses in Ho Chi Minh City still face many difficulties when it comes to attracting more tourists, heard a conference on the city’s waterway tourism development held on July 5.
Claudia Liliana Zambrano Naranjo, Chargé d’Affaires of Colombia to Viet Nam, has expressed her wish for cooperation in waterway tourism between Colombia and Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities have devised a plan to bolster the city’s waterway tourism in the 2017-2020 period.
The Department of Tourism together with the Department of Transport of Ho Chi Minh City and the Saigon Boat JSC launched a boat tour on the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal in the city on September 1.