Representatives of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism went to Cambodia and Thailand to promote the city's tourism strengths, including medical tourism.
The tourism promotion delegation of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism visited Cambodia and Thailand on June 19 and 20 to announce cooperation programs between Ho Chi Minh City and the two ASEAN countries. In addition to promoting the strengths of local tourism, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism focused on introducing medical tourism packages.
During the meeting with nearly 150 travel agencies, representatives of hospitals, medical facilities, and Vietnamese doctors' associations in Cambodia, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism Bui Thi Ngoc Hieu shared the strengths of the public and private healthcare system of Ho Chi Minh City with safe, convenient, and reasonably priced medical tourism services and products. This is one of the typical tourism products that Ho Chi Minh City wants to introduce and promote to increase the number of Cambodian tourists to the city.
One of the important reasons to promote tourism cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City and Cambodia is the favorable geographical location, many types of transportation connecting from air to road. In addition, Phnom Penh is a familiar destination for Vietnamese tourists and vice versa, Ho Chi Minh City also attracts Cambodian tourists to visit.
Ho Chi Minh City Post Office is one of the tourist attractions that attracts many international visitors. Photo: Quynh Tran.
In Bangkok, Thailand, the Ho Chi Minh City delegation also surveyed and learned about medical tourism products at Bumrugrad and Vinmut hospitals, two prestigious hospitals famous for medical tourism services in the land of golden temples. Ho Chi Minh City hopes to improve and enhance the quality of medical tourism products and services in the city to attract Thai tourists to travel, receive medical treatment, and receive beauty treatments.
According to data from the General Department of Tourism, Cambodia is a traditional tourist market for Vietnam. In the first 5 months of 2023, Vietnam welcomed more than 167,000 Cambodian tourists, accounting for 3.63% of total international visitors. Meanwhile, Thailand is in the top 5 international tourist markets of Vietnam tourism in the first 5 months of 2023, with more than 230,000 visitors.
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