Deputy Prime Minister: It is necessary to develop a set of principles on "Digital Tourism and Green Tourism"

Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh requested the tourism industry to continue to improve its institutions and change its mindset from "growth at all costs" to "sustainable development."

The tourism industry needs to research and develop a set of principles on “Digital Tourism and Green Tourism” - a common framework of standards, encouraging countries and businesses to apply, so that global tourism can develop harmoniously, responsibly and sustainably. In addition, the industry focuses on promoting regional and industry linkages to develop sustainable tourism value chains, linking tourism with agriculture , culture, environment and science and technology... thereby forming unique, distinctive products with depth and high competitiveness.

This is the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh at the 2025 High-Level Tourism Forum “Shaping the Future of Tourism: Towards Digital Transformation and Green Transformation,” held within the framework of the Ho Chi Minh City International Tourism Fair 2025 (ITE HCMC 2025), taking place on the morning of September 4, in Ho Chi Minh City.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh, the Forum is an important event, a meeting place for initiatives and building trust in the future of rapid and sustainable tourism development. With its central location in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has many distinct potentials, outstanding opportunities, and competitive advantages for tourism development such as a peaceful , stable, secure, and safe environment.

Vietnam possesses a rich treasure of cultural and historical heritage, including 9 world heritages and 16 representative intangible cultural heritages of humanity recognized by UNESCO. Vietnam also has unique cuisine; majestic, beautiful, diverse and rich nature; friendly and affectionate people; reasonable travel costs and increasingly professional and high-quality services. Vietnam has a young and abundant human resource, contributing to the development of tourism human resources.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that after expanding its administrative boundaries, Ho Chi Minh City continues to affirm its position as the largest economic and tourist center in the country, converging outstanding potential in economics, culture, services and international connectivity.

The city not only has an open, dynamic and creative urban space, but also has a diversity of cultural and historical heritage, the Can Gio mangrove biosphere, fruit gardens and river landscapes. Along with that, the vibrant pace of life and high-class service ecosystem create a unique attraction to make the city a "gateway" to welcome international visitors and the starting point of many journeys to explore Vietnam.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh, the Government and the Prime Minister have always paid attention to and issued many policies and strategies to develop tourism. Recently, the Prime Minister has directed the implementation of solutions to promote tourism development, ensuring double-digit economic growth, emphasizing that the tourism industry needs to continue to accelerate the digital transformation process associated with green transformation, maximizing the potential resources and advantages of each region and locality. At the same time, the tourism industry is determined to achieve sustainable development goals according to the motto "Unique products - Professional services - Convenient and simple procedures - Competitive prices - Clean and beautiful environment - Safe, civilized and friendly destinations."

Ceremony to announce the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Health on developing effective and sustainable medical tourism for the 2025-2030 period. (Photo: My Phuong/VNA)

Orienting the rapid and sustainable development of the tourism industry in the coming time, Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh requested the tourism industry to continue to improve its institutions and innovate its thinking from "growth at all costs" to "sustainable development"; from considering tourism as a service industry to recognizing tourism as a creative, connected and value-sharing economic sector - a convergence of culture, economy, environment and technology.

At the same time, the tourism industry will strengthen actions and expand international cooperation towards digital transformation, green transformation, strongly apply smart governance models, share data and knowledge to jointly build a smart, green and sustainable tourism ecosystem.

The tourism industry needs to focus on training digital human resources and human resources with knowledge and skills in sustainable development; fostering creativity, flexible adaptation and international integration to create a generation of "pioneers" in building a modern and humane tourism industry.

At the forum, delegates focused on discussing issues such as the role of digital transformation and green transformation in Vietnam's tourism development; solutions for tourism development in the context of digital transformation and green transformation; medical tourism in the trend of digital transformation and green transformation.

Also at the forum, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Health signed a cooperation agreement to develop medical tourism./.

(TTXVN/Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/pho-thu-tuong-can-xay-dung-bo-nguyen-tac-ve-du-lich-so-va-du-lich-xanh-post1059827.vnp