Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh enhance tourism
05/12/07 (GMT+7)
Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh have pledged to boost tourism co-operation in a move to better tap each others’ potential.
An agreement to this effect was signed between the two cities on December 3 as part of a tourism promotion programme launched by the Ho Chi Minh City tourism department in Phnom Penh.
Under the agreement, the two cities will foster co-operation in information and exchange experiences, launching tourism promotion programmes and organising exhibitions and fairs to introduce the two cities’ tourism potentials to holiday makers.
They will also join hands to develop tourism products and open more routes linking tourist sites of the two countries.
Addressing the opening of the programme, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Chien Thang stressed that increased co-operation between Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh, particularly in tourism, would help speed up economic development of the two cities as well as the two countries.
Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Cambodian and Vietnamese tourism businesses need to further boost their co-operation in line with a tourism development co-operation declaration signed between Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City on October 5, 2007.
The programme provides participants an insight into the land, culture, people and famous tourism sites of Vietnam and serves as a venue for tourism businesses of the two countries to discuss future co-operation.
Over the past ten months of this year, Vietnam welcomed around 150,000 Cambodian tourists.
Close to 80,000 Vietnamese tourists visited Cambodia in 2006. The figure increased to 100,000 over the past ten months of this year.
(Source: VNA)
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