Attending were representatives of leaders of the People's Committee of Bac Kan province; Vietnam National Administration of Tourism; leaders of the Department of Tourism; Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Business Association and Tourism Association of provinces and cities: Ho Chi Minh City; provinces: Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang, Bac Giang, Cao Bang, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen, Vinh Phuc, Quang Ninh. Representatives of the leaders of Tuyen Quang Provincial Business Associations were Mr. Nguyen Van Minh, Vice Chairman of the Association.

At the conference, the delegates watched a clip of the report summarizing the linkage activities between the city. Ho Chi Minh City and the Northeast provinces in 2022 and conduct discussions focusing on issues such as: Linking to develop tourism products, tourism investment, exploiting potentials, organizing symposiums on tourism investment promotion and some proposals to improve the effectiveness of the association.

Clearly, through the association program, with the help and facilitation of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, tourism promotion and advertising activities in the Northeast provinces have made positive changes, the tourism development has many innovations and developments; Tourism services and products are increasingly rich and diverse, gradually bringing the Northeast tourism brand to a large number of domestic and international tourists.

As for Bac Kan province, as the leader of the linkage group, in 2022, the province has actively coordinated with localities to issue a plan to implement the 2022 tourism development cooperation plan in line with the situation. epidemic situation, which focused on the following contents: Organizing communication activities, promoting tourism; cooperation in the development of regional tourism products; State management, information exchange...

According to statistics, in 2022, the total number of visitors and tourist stays of 9 provinces and cities in the association program will reach 52,712 million (including 2,358 million international tourists), social income from tourism is estimated at 141,388 billion VND. This result has clearly demonstrated the determination, efforts and efforts of 9 provinces and cities participating in the association program in jointly building and restoring Vietnam's tourism.

The conference set out the mission direction for 2023, focusing on 9 groups of solutions, in which priority is to focus on promotional activities to attract and restore the market after the impact of the epidemic. Covid-19, focusing on coordinating the organization and participating in prestigious and annual events.

Researching, building and renewing unique and typical tourism products of the region; focus on research to expand the tourist market and build a separate promotion strategy for each product, tour, and affiliate route. Research and organize a conference to attract tourism investment, in order to create key tourism products, specific, good service quality, attracting tourists to visit, relax and experience in the areas. tourist attractions of each locality; take advantage and call for support from non-governmental organizations through projects and investment components for tourism development in the Northeast region with Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh…

It is expected that in 2023, the  Tourism Development Cooperation Group between Ho Chi Minh City and 8 Northeast Provinces will  organize a Conference to review the work in Ho Chi Minh City, and at the same time transfer the role of  the leader of the joint group. report for Vinh Phuc province to review its work in 2024, then Bac Giang province.

Within the framework of the program, the Conference announced and awarded the Bac Kan province tourism souvenir and gift design contest in 2022; organize sightseeing, experience Ba Be lake, Phieng Phan highland village community tourist site, Yen Duong commune, Ba Be district.

* Before that, on the evening of November 4, in Cho Ra town, Ba Be district, leaders of the Department of Tourism; Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Business Association and Tourism Association of Ho Chi Minh City and 8 "provinces" attended the opening of the event "Autumn colors of Ba Be Lake" in 2022 organized by Ba Be District People's Committee.

Do Hung