Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep, Vice Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee gave a speech.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep, Vice Chairwoman of Can Tho City People's Committee emphasized that the tourism industry today has affirmed its role as a comprehensive economic sector, actively contributing to sustainable growth, creating jobs and promoting economic restructuring.
In the first 6 months of 2025, Can Tho city welcomed more than 6.3 million visitors, over 2.7 million guests staying; revenue reached about 5,450 billion VND.
After 65 years of formation and development, Vietnam's tourism industry has overcome many challenges and is steadily moving forward in the integration period. Can Tho City today, with its large development space, enriches its resources, identity, human resources and raw material areas for tourism development, promising to become a tourism, cultural and river center of the Mekong Delta.
To promote Can Tho tourism to develop strongly in the coming time, the Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee suggested that the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism should promptly advise the city leaders to develop a plan to organize a variety of tourism activities and festivals. For travel agencies, it is necessary to strengthen the training of quality tourism human resources, ensure good service for domestic and foreign tourists, increase investment in upgrading facilities and new products and services.
Delegates visit the tourism product display area.
The People's Committee of Can Tho City requested the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to promptly advise on mobilizing resources for tourism development investment, focusing on maximizing potential, advantages, and exploiting local tourism resources. At the same time, the tourism industry needs to coordinate with the industry and trade sector and localities in linking and developing souvenir products and typical gifts, especially OCOP products at tourist destinations; thereby, contributing to promoting the image and typical products of the locality.
At the conference, delegates focused on introducing tourism stimulus programs of businesses; solutions to link quality product and service chains to attract visitors to the city; linking service chains to attract visitors in Can Tho city.
Delegates said that Can Tho city currently has a strategic location, convenient transportation and a rich tourism ecosystem from sea, river, garden, floating market tourism to festivals, culture, cuisine, traditional craft villages; diverse types of trade services, entertainment, etc. These factors will contribute to the city's tourism development even more strongly in the coming time.
Business representatives received Certificates of Merit from the Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Can Tho City.
Director of Ido Travel Company Truong Van Vinh said that Can Tho city has diverse attractions, many festivals imbued with the identity of the South and quality tourism resources. In the coming time, the business representative proposed that the city promote and invite large investors to build tourist areas and spots, and pay attention to investing in unique art performances. In addition, the city needs to plan the space to develop night tourism products associated with performance programs to attract tourists to experience night tourism.
On this occasion, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Can Tho city awarded Certificates of Merit to representatives of 17 enterprises that have made positive contributions to the development of the tourism industry.
Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/can-tho-doanh-thu-du-lich-da-dat-khoang-5450-ty-dong-20250709054859714.htm
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