Hochiminh tourism

Group 6

1. Nguyễn Đình Trung

2. Hoàng Đình Tuấn

3. Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Trinh

4. Nguyễn Thùy Trang

5. Phan Anh Tuấn

Topic : Ho Chi Minh City Tourism

I. Some overview of Ho Chi Minh city tourism

II. Dishes, Specialties and souvenirs

III. Places for sightseeing and entertainment activities

I. Some overview of Ho Chi Minh city

tourism

- Ho Chi Minh city : interesting and attractive destination.

- Dynamic economic region

- First impression : lively, youthful , dynamic ,etc

- “ Pearl of the Far East

- Tourism activity developed sharply

- Foreign visitor in 2005 : 2 million (increase 27% over 2004)

- Tourism revenue 13250 billion , up 23%

- 142 hotel ( 35 : 3 to 5 stars )

- 346 tour operators

Some advantages for tourism

1.Geographical location: connect with the domestic and foreign

destination.

+gateway to Southeast, Southwest,South Central.etc

+located near tourism center :Thailand,Sing,Malaysia

+port ,railway, riverway, airway.

2. Weather: convenient to develop tourism

+ Average temperature : 27.5

+not directly affected by floods

+2 seasons , rain came and gone suddenly , tourism season in any time.

3 . People

+ friendly , hospitable

+ active , creative , peace loving .

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II. Specialties food and souvenirs

HCM City is a center of the fertile lands of the South, abundant produce.

Cake mix

Price about 10,000 VND to 15,000 VND/share

Shellfish

The interesting places to enjoy this food are : the Thai Binh

( District 10) , Vinh Khanh ( District 4) with the price of

30.000 vnd/share.

Hu Tieu Hong Phat

• Hu Tieu is the

most famous

food in the Ho

Chi Minh city.

• The store in the

front of Vo Van

Tan street with

wide space and

cool.

Hu Tieu Tylum

Address store in 93 number , Huynh Man Dat street

Broken Rice

Dang Van Ngu (District

Phu Nhuan), broken rice

late Tan Dinh , An

Duong Vuong ( District

5) with the price of

25.000 Vnd/share

Ben Thanh market

S total: 13.056m2

1,437 stalls with each stall from 1,5-2m2 area.

10,000 unique visitor/day.

40% domestic and foreign tourist.

III. Places for sightseeing and entertainment activities

Pagodas and temples

Giac Lam Pagoda is the oldest

pagoda.

In the city has more than 1000

temples with a lot of special

architecture.

CathedralThe largest cathedral is the Notre Dame Cathedral. The otherfamous are : Vuon Xoai, Tan Dinh, Huyen Sy…

Special Architect

• Saigon architecture is a mix of

many styles.

• There are French style,

architecture before 1975, and

the new architecture

Travelling• Cu Chi tunnels is the best

place for who lovehistorical. You candiscover an undergroundcity

• And 2 special place isstork Thủ Đức andmangroves

Amusement parks

• Ho Chi Minh city has many famous

parks : Suoi Tien Theme park, Dam

Sen water park, Saigon Zoo , Le Van

Tam park…

• Kites flying area at Vo Gap.

Become a farmer at Cu Chi

Foreign tourists can visit HCM Agricultural Villages . They

can become a real Vietnamese farmer for a day and take

a cooking class .

Water puppets

Water puppets performance at the Golden Dragon Water

Puppet Theater attract many foreign tourists.

Coffee shops

There are many coffee shop in Saigon with different stylesand drinks. Some music coffee shops play just one style ofmusic such as country, rock, jazz ... or many other have livemusic.