ITE HCMC 2024 to welcome 220+ buyers from 45 countries from 5-7 September 2024 in Vietnam
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 essential 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 modern product concepts and enterprise fashions to steer within the ever-growing sustainability traits. The expo will even 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
Current surveys by main international journey businesses reveal that customers are more and more conscious of tourism’s destructive impacts on the surroundings, society, and native tradition. Consequently, they’re extra inclined to decide on lodges, eating places, and tour operators that combine sustainability into each side of their companies, making certain advantages for each the surroundings and the group.
“Vietnam presents many alternatives for sustainable tourism improvement. Nevertheless, 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 consultants, 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 function important participation from authorities officers, the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities, and Tourism, regional tourism authorities, worldwide journey businesses, MICE operators, luxurious journey firms, and eating places.
Audio system and attendees will talk about selling sustainability via ESG rules, emphasizing accountable tourism that focuses on nature and wildlife conservation whereas opposing the ivory commerce. Moreover, they may discover community-based tourism improvement. The aim of those discussions is to generate invaluable initiatives that advance sustainable tourism in Vietnam.
Notably, the expo will function a high-level Tourism Discussion board, themed “NET ZERO Tourism – Creating Future.” The discussion board is predicted 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 probably 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 one of the best 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. Attaining this requires efficient collaboration amongst localities and companies. ITE HCMC 2024 presents a super platform for journey and hospitality companies to attach, discover, and increase their partnerships. This collaborative strategy 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 foremost objectives of ITE HCMC 2024 is to develop the worldwide customer marketplace for Vietnam and enhance vacationer flows between international locations, thereby maximizing tourism income. To attain this, it’s important to strengthen worldwide tourism cooperation by fostering efficient connections between Vietnamese tourism companies and people from Mekong River Basin international locations and different international markets.”
With over 500 esteemed exhibitors and types from home and worldwide markets, the ITE HCMC 2024 is ready to facilitate intensive and significant collaboration. The occasion will foster important engagement amongst nationwide and native tourism promotion businesses, tourism associations, analysis establishments, firms, journey businesses, main airways and suppliers of hospitality and transportation companies.
With intensive and numerous participation from throughout the areas, ITE HCMC 2024 underscores Ho Chi Minh Metropolis’s pivotal position in driving nationwide tourism integration.
Thus far, almost 300 members 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 via reside chat and electronic 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 international locations and territories. The occasion plans to host over 10,000 enterprise conferences, offering invaluable alternatives for direct B2B interactions between international and Vietnamese tourism companies.
ITE HCMC 2024 has acquired invaluable 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 Resort, Vietjet Air, Vietravel Airways, and different worldwide airways. These companions play a vital position in inviting journey businesses that manage 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.