An overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – A top leader ofHo Chi Minh City has proposed the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Daegu city andGyeongsangbuk province attend the International Travel Exhibition in the cityin November to foster their partnerships in tourism, culture andpeople-to-people exchange.
The proposal was made by Chairman of theHCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong while hosting a reception on May20 for Mayor of Daegu Kwon Young-jin and Gyeongsangbuk province’s Deputy GovernorYoon Yong-jin.
Phong said that HCM City always attachesimportance to and wants to develop effectively and comprehensively theVietnam-RoK strategic cooperative partnership as well as cooperative ties withKorean localities.
He expressed his belief that withpositive cooperation in tourism over the years and the new visa policy that theRoK is applying on citizens of Vietnam and specially those in major cities suchas HCM City, Hanoi and Da Nang, tourism collaboration between Vietnam and theRoK as well as HCM City and Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk will further develop.
For his part, Kwon spoke highly of HCMCity’s support to Daegu city to conduct cooperation activities in the city inmany areas, especially culture and tourism.
He said that the RoK delegation’s visitto the city aims to promote tourism of the two localities, expressing his hopeto expand partnership with local travel firms.
Meanwhile, Yoon showed his impression atHCM City’s tourism potential, adding that he hoped for stronger cooperationwith the city, especially in culture and tourism.
He invited HCM City’s leaders to attendthe Gyeongju Global Cultural Festival in Gyeongsangbuk in October.
In 2018, 934,000 Korean holidaymakersvisited HCM City, up 73 percent over the previous year, making the RoK thesecond largest tourism market of the city.
As of April 2019, the RoK is the thirdlargest foreign investor among 106 countries and territories investing in thecity with 1,600 projects worth over 5 billion USD. Trade between the city andthe RoK hit 4.7 billion USD in the year.-VNA
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