The 18th Worldwide Journey Expo Ho Chi Minh Metropolis 2024 (ITE HCMC 2024), to be held from 5 – 7 September, 2024. With sustainability rising as a crucial aggressive benefit, ITE HCMC 2024 has adopted the theme “Sustainable Journey – Creating the Future” to underscore its significance.
The premier journey commerce occasion guarantees to offer journey and hospitality companies with unparalleled entry to progressive product concepts and enterprise fashions to steer within the ever-growing sustainability traits. The expo may also function a platform for business gamers, not simply from Ho Chi Minh Metropolis however throughout Vietnam, to discover collaboration alternatives, including worth and enhancing traveller experiences.
Serving to companies faucet into sustainable tourism
Latest surveys by main international journey companies reveal that buyers are more and more conscious of tourism’s damaging impacts on the atmosphere, society, and native tradition. Consequently, they’re extra inclined to decide on motels, eating places, and tour operators that combine sustainability into each facet of their companies, guaranteeing advantages for each the atmosphere and the group.
“Vietnam presents many alternatives for sustainable tourism improvement. Nonetheless, many companies nonetheless encounter difficulties in aligning with worldwide sustainability standards. ITE HCMC 2024 is designed to supply sensible insights and efficient options from each worldwide and Vietnamese specialists, aiding companies of their sustainable tourism efforts,” mentioned Le Truong Hien Hoa, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Division of Tourism.
A sequence of workshops, conferences, and high-level boards will characteristic important participation from authorities officers, the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities, and Tourism, regional tourism authorities, worldwide journey companies, MICE operators, luxurious journey corporations, and eating places.
Audio system and attendees will focus on selling sustainability by way of ESG rules, emphasizing accountable tourism that focuses on nature and wildlife conservation whereas opposing the ivory commerce. Moreover, they’ll discover community-based tourism improvement. The aim of those discussions is to generate useful initiatives that advance sustainable tourism in Vietnam.
Notably, the expo will characteristic a high-level Tourism Discussion board, 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 improvement of tourism and the economic system.
Main in collaboration
The important thing spotlight of ITE HCMC 2024 will likely 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 Metropolis Division of Tourism, mentioned, “Our aspiration is for each customer to have the most effective time potential by seeing essentially the most lovely sights, eating on the best meals, and experiencing essentially the most gratifying moments all through Vietnam, not simply in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Hanoi, or Da Nang. Reaching this requires efficient collaboration amongst localities and companies. ITE HCMC 2024 provides a great platform for journey and hospitality companies to attach, discover, and develop their partnerships. This collaborative method aligns completely with the Vietnamese authorities’s broader aim of reworking tourism into a number one financial sector, advancing inexperienced development, and establishing the nation as a premier vacation spot.”
One of many primary objectives of ITE HCMC 2024 is to develop the worldwide customer marketplace for Vietnam and improve vacationer flows between nations, thereby maximizing tourism income. To realize this, it’s important to strengthen worldwide tourism cooperation by fostering efficient connections between Vietnamese tourism companies and people from Mekong River Basin nations and different international markets.”
With over 500 esteemed exhibitors and types from home and worldwide markets, the ITE HCMC 2024 is ready to facilitate in depth and significant collaboration. The occasion will foster important engagement amongst nationwide and native tourism promotion companies, tourism associations, analysis establishments, corporations, journey companies, main airways and suppliers of hospitality and transportation providers.
With in depth and numerous participation from throughout the areas, ITE HCMC 2024 underscores Ho Chi Minh Metropolis’s pivotal function in driving nationwide tourism integration.
Up to now, practically 300 contributors from 38 provinces and cities in Vietnam have registered. Important 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 patrons and exhibitors to simply schedule conferences by way 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 patrons from 45 nations and territories. The occasion plans to host over 10,000 enterprise conferences, offering useful alternatives for direct B2B interactions between international and Vietnamese tourism companies.
ITE HCMC 2024 has obtained useful assist from key companions, together with Vietnam Airways (ITE HCMC’s Official Airways, Diamond Sponsor), the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham), Sofitel Saigon Plaza Lodge, Vietjet Air, Vietravel Airways, and different worldwide airways. These companions play an important function in inviting journey companies that arrange excursions to Vietnam and the area to take part within the Worldwide Purchaser Program.
Having efficiently hosted 17 editions, ITE HCMC is now the main tourism occasion within the area. ITE HCMC 2024 goals to offer a vibrant platform for networking, enterprise alternatives, and strategic partnerships for tourism professionals and stakeholders in Vietnam and globally.