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HCMC targets high-spending Australian tourists By  VNA    May 15, 2024 | 02:06 pm GMT+7 Foreign tourists in front of the Central Post Office in downtown HCMC. Photo by VnExpress/Tam Linh The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism on May 13 and 14 partnered with the Consulate General of Vietnam in Sydney to host a series of promotion events aimed at attracting Australian tourists. Over 25 representatives from Vietnamese airlines, travel agents, hospitality providers and industry associations attended the road show. A business-to-consumer (B2C) event stood out, featuring live entertainment, informative presentations, and a comprehensive overview of Ho Chi Minh City's tourism experiences, all designed to enable Australian visitors to plan their dream vacations, said deputy director of the department Le Truong Hien Hoa. A business networking event also connected the city’s tourism companies with their counterparts from New South Wales. The event attracted more than 2,500 visitors who e

“Experts have identified Con Chim as one of the few remaining places in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta with a natural, seasonal water flow, offering a unique view into the country’s past and a possible window on the future of sustainable agriculture.” https://news-mongabay-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/news.mongabay.com/2024/01/a-mekong-island-too-tiny-for-industrial-farming-now-points-to-vietnams-future/amp/ A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future Sonal Gupta 5 days ago Farmers on Con Chim island grow rice, fish, flowers, fruit and vegetables year round on Vietnam’s southern coast. Image by Giang Pham. In the decades following the U.S. war in Vietnam, the Vietnamese government championed intensive farming methods that boosted rice harvests and turned the country into an export powerhouse. While much of the Mekong Delta was reshaped to support intensive farming, the coastal island of Con Chim was deemed too small to be worth installing the necessary dik

Vietnam tourism during 2023 still facing several issues according to the article link below titled "Vietnam tourism can't rely on 'beautiful nature, friendly people' alone". Several topics detected: > Limited human resources service factor > Not listed prices compared to competitors > General hygiene & public toilets maintenance > Non existent or inconvenient public transport service  > Sellers friendliness not shown to customers Writer's opinion drives on fixing the above problems prior to any positive result promotion if Vietnam wishes to compete with other destinations like China, Japan, South Korea or Thailand. Agree or disagree to author's comments are another topic... https://lnkd.in/gfgVxN6e

  Adding value to the community in Ho Chi Minh City, meeting business partners, talking to true leaders from Vietnam and other countries is part of our commitment at MQL Sustainable Tourism Services. Thank you Social ChangeMakers for the call and for allow us to share our experience. 🤩 Social ChangeMakers is delighted to invite you to The Human Library Saigon, where we celebrate the power of education and honour the exceptional educators who have shaped lives and communities. 🌱 Inspired by The Human Library initiative originated from Denmark, our first Human Library Saigon coincides with the commemoration of Vietnamese Teacher Day in November, paying tribute to the invaluable contributions of teachers and educators. === 🕰️ AGENDA 17:30-18:00 Check In & Select Books 18:00-19:00 Reading Session 1 19:00-19:30 Interval & Check In 19:30-20:30 Reading Session 2 20:30-21:00 Network & Mingle === 📕 Miquel Àngel - "GROWING LEADERS" This book is a carefully woven tapestr

  Ho Chi Minh City is suffering a long term pandemic problem of littering and population not treating waste properly: the topic is one of the most reported by international visitors to town - waste all over. All marketing efforts the authorities are spending, are dilapidated by the images of rest of plastic, non properly disposed garbage and regular no-citizens care shown along new pedestrian streets, canals and rivers all over the city. Just a day after newly opened areas (Bach Dang park, Nguyen Hue pedestrian street, Bui Vien night street among many others) are open to public, large quantities of empty plastic drinks, bags, cooking oils on floors add negative impact to a long list, damaging grass, tiles and rest of expensive equipment. At MQL Sustainable Tourism Services, we do offer solutions, we do continuously work with educational presentations, support universities and talks at national & international level...but there is a huge chunk of citizens who do keep damaging the ci

SIGNING CEREMONY OF MOU BETWEEN CECR AND MQL SUSTAINABLE TOURISM SERVICES POSTED ON  15/09/2023  BY  CECR.VN On September 13, 2023, CECR Center for Environmental and Community Research held a signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with MQL Sustainable Tourism Services  on “Cooperation to raise awareness and strengthen capacity in projects on environmental protection, climate change and sustainable development”.       The signing ceremony was attended by Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Ly – Founder/ Chairman  of CECR Board of Directors, D r . Nguyen Khac Hung – Director of CECR, Mr. Miquel Angel P. Martorell – Founder of MQL Sustainable Tourism Services. Through agreement on common activities, CECR and MQL Sustainable Tourism Services signed a cooperation agreement in the fields of environmental protection, climate change adaptation, sustainable development, and provision of consulting services ,  training in the above fields.     MQL Sustainable Tourism Services is a company specialis