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The 18th International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City 2024 (ITE HCMC 2024), to be held from 5 – 7 September, 2024. With sustainability rising as a important aggressive benefit, ITE HCMC 2024 has adopted the theme “Sustainable Travel – Creating the Future” to underscore its significance.
The premier journey commerce occasion guarantees to present journey and hospitality companies with unparalleled entry to progressive product concepts and enterprise fashions to lead in the ever-growing sustainability developments. The expo will even function a platform for business gamers, not simply from Ho Chi Minh City however throughout Vietnam, to discover collaboration alternatives, including worth and enhancing traveller experiences.
Helping companies faucet into sustainable tourism
Recent surveys by main international journey businesses reveal that buyers are more and more conscious of tourism’s detrimental impacts on the setting, society, and native tradition. Consequently, they’re extra inclined to select inns, eating places, and tour operators that combine sustainability into each side of their companies, making certain advantages for each the setting and the neighborhood.
“Vietnam presents many opportunities for sustainable tourism development. However, many businesses still encounter difficulties in aligning with international sustainability criteria. ITE HCMC 2024 is designed to offer practical insights and effective solutions from both international and Vietnamese experts, aiding businesses in their sustainable tourism efforts,” stated Le Truong Hien Hoa, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism.
A collection of workshops, conferences, and high-level boards will function vital participation from authorities officers, the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, regional tourism authorities, worldwide journey businesses, MICE operators, luxurious journey corporations, and eating places.
Speakers and attendees will focus on selling sustainability by means of ESG rules, emphasizing accountable tourism that focuses on nature and wildlife conservation whereas opposing the ivory commerce. Additionally, they’ll discover community-based tourism growth. The purpose of those discussions is to generate worthwhile initiatives that advance sustainable tourism in Vietnam.
Notably, the expo will function a high-level Tourism Forum, themed “NET ZERO Tourism – Creating Future.” The discussion board is anticipated to yield actionable options and efficient methods that may contribute to the accountable and sustainable growth of tourism and the financial system.
Leading in collaboration
The key spotlight of ITE HCMC 2024 might be its concentrate on positioning tourism as a dynamic financial sector that interconnects with many different sectors.
Le Truong Hien Hoa, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, stated, “Our aspiration is for every visitor to have the best time possible by seeing the most beautiful sights, dining on the finest food, and experiencing the most enjoyable moments throughout Vietnam, not just in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, or Da Nang. Achieving this requires effective collaboration among localities and businesses. ITE HCMC 2024 offers an ideal platform for travel and hospitality businesses to connect, explore, and expand their partnerships. This collaborative approach aligns perfectly with the Vietnamese government’s broader goal of transforming tourism into a leading economic sector, advancing green growth, and establishing the country as a premier destination.”
One of the primary objectives of ITE HCMC 2024 is to develop the worldwide customer marketplace for Vietnam and improve vacationer flows between countries, thereby maximizing tourism income. To obtain this, it’s important to strengthen worldwide tourism cooperation by fostering efficient connections between Vietnamese tourism companies and people from Mekong River Basin countries and different international markets.”
With over 500 esteemed exhibitors and types from home and worldwide markets, the ITE HCMC 2024 is about to facilitate in depth and significant collaboration. The occasion will foster vital engagement amongst nationwide and native tourism promotion businesses, tourism associations, analysis establishments, corporations, journey businesses, main airways and suppliers of hospitality and transportation companies.
With in depth and various participation from throughout the areas, ITE HCMC 2024 underscores Ho Chi Minh City’s pivotal position in driving nationwide tourism integration.
To date, practically 300 individuals from 38 provinces and cities in Vietnam have registered. Significant curiosity has come from South Korea, Russia, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan (China), Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, with notable will increase from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. This demonstrates the rising prominence of ITE HCMC 2024, offering alternatives for Vietnamese companies to penetrate abroad markets. The 2D on-line exhibition platform additional facilitates connectivity for international shoppers, enabling buyers and exhibitors to simply schedule conferences by means of dwell chat and e mail options.
As the one expo in Vietnam with a world purchaser program, ITE HCMC 2024 will welcome over 220 high quality worldwide buyers from 45 countries and territories. The occasion plans to host over 10,000 enterprise conferences, offering worthwhile alternatives for direct B2B interactions between international and Vietnamese tourism companies.
ITE HCMC 2024 has acquired worthwhile help from key companions, together with Vietnam Airlines (ITE HCMC’s Official Airlines, Diamond Sponsor), the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham), Sofitel Saigon Plaza Hotel, Vietjet Air, Vietravel Airlines, and different worldwide airways. These companions play a vital position in inviting journey businesses that arrange excursions to Vietnam and the area to take part in the International Buyer Program.
Having efficiently hosted 17 editions, ITE HCMC is now the main tourism occasion in the area. ITE HCMC 2024 goals to present a vibrant platform for networking, enterprise alternatives, and strategic partnerships for tourism professionals and stakeholders in Vietnam and globally.
