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| At the event (Photo: NDO) |
At the event, short video clips on culture, food, and tourism products, notably health-related ones, in the city were screened and a networking event for Vietnamese and Cambodian firms seeking mutual understanding and partnerships.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Director of the HCMC Department of Tourism Bui Thi Ngoc Hieu highlighted the city’s collaboration with and assistance for local travel businesses to complete their medical care packages.
According to her, the city has 131 hospitals with high-qualification human resources and reasonable costs for health examination and treatment.
Minister Counsellor Ngo Van Tuat from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia said that Cambodian tourists, especially young people, often choose HCMC because of its dynamism, while many include medical examination and treatment at the modern hospitals and clinics in the city in their trips.
He expressed his hope that the program will help Cambodian businesses and people know more about HCMC, opening up more business cooperation opportunities and pushing up the number of tourists to both nations.
The embassy is willing to act as a bridge connecting the sides in fostering their tourism partnership, contributing to stronger traditional relations and people-to-people exchange between the nations, he emphasized.
In 2022, nearly 200,000 Cambodians came to Vietnam, ranking 4th among sources of foreign tourists to the country. In the first five months of 2023, the figure exceeded 167,000, accounting for 3.63% of the total number of international visitors to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Cambodia hosted more than 466,000 Vietnamese, ranking 2nd in the country’s foreign-arrival lineup. In the first three months of this year, the number of Vietnamese tourists to Cambodia reached over 200,000./.