Speaking at the event, Counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia Ngo Van Tuat said that the event made an important contribution to fostering tourism cooperation between the two countries as well as between Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh.
He expressed his hope that the potentials, strengths, and tourism services in Ho Chi Minh City will be known to businesses and many Cambodian people, thus opening many cooperation opportunities for tourism businesses of both sides.
Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism Bui Thi Ngoc Hieu said that the city’s Department of Tourism and Department of Health have been working to support tourism enterprises to build medical tourism packages, one of the tourism services favoured by Cambodian visitors. She noted that this event will be a good chance for tourism enterprises of both sides to expand cooperation opportunities in the future.
Under Secretary of State of the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism Prak Chandara believes that the tourism promotion programme will help increase the number of tourists between the two countries in the post-pandemic recovery period.
Vietnam recorded nearly 200,000 Cambodian visitors in 2022, the fourth largest group of foreign visitors to Vietnam that year. Vietnam also ranked second among foreign tourists to Cambodia with 466,000 Vietnamese tourists visiting Cambodia in 2022, accounting for 21.7% of the total number of foreign tourists to the country.
