Ho Chi Minh City continues to affirm its position as Asia's leading destination by winning four award categories at the World Travel Awards 2025, announced on October 13.
Ho Chi Minh City's awards include Asia's Leading Business Destination (for the fourth consecutive year); Asia's Leading Festival and Event Destination (for the fourth consecutive year); Asia's Leading Local Tourism Authority (under the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, for the third consecutive year) and Asia's Leading Short-Term Beach Destination (Vung Tau).
Winning four award categories at the World Travel Awards 2025 further demonstrates the attraction of this destination to international tourists.
During the period 2020-2025, Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry has continuously innovated, with breakthrough ideas on product quality, service standards and building and developing the brand of the City of Tourism, thereby bringing home a series of international awards.
The city has also become a destination to host many international events of cities around the world such as the General Assembly of the Tourism Promotion Organization of Global Cities (TPO); Roundtable Conference of Business Partner Cities.
With its established position on the international tourism map, Ho Chi Minh City will have a solid foundation to implement its tourism development strategy in the new period.
Tourism is one of the key economic sectors, identified as the key development pillar of Ho Chi Minh City. To position the brand as “Tourist City”, the city’s tourism industry has continuously restructured its products, focusing on building new tours and routes while upgrading and renewing existing tours and routes.
In the 2020-2025 period, one of the outstanding solutions is to organize a series of unique tourism events, playing a role in connecting Vietnamese tourism with international and regional markets, typically the Ho Chi Minh City International Tourism Fair (ITE HCMC), Ao Dai Festival, City River Festival and City International Marathon...
It is also from the series of events that have been maintained and organized annually and continuously for many years that Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry has made great strides on the international tourism map, gradually bringing the city's brand closer to global tourists.
In particular, the Ho Chi Minh City River Festival 2024 brought great pride to the city when it simultaneously won two Gold Awards at the 22nd International Business Awards (IBA) in 2025, held in Portugal - one of the world's most prestigious awards under the Stevie Awards system of the United States.
Specifically, the Festival was honored with the Gold Award in the category of “Art, Entertainment & Public Festival”, while the opening art program “Legendary Train” continued to win the Gold Award in the category of “Cultural Event”. This is a special milestone, when the River Festival became one of the few events in Vietnam to achieve double international achievements, affirming the position and growing influence of the City’s tourism in the international arena.
Ho Chi Minh City also continues to affirm its position as a dynamic destination in Asia when it was honored with the TPO Best Awards 2025 Tourism Marketing Award within the framework of the 12th General Assembly of the Tourism Promotion Organization for Global Cities (TPO 2025) in 2025, with the campaign "Find Your Vibes
Surpassing many major cities in the world to win this prestigious award has affirmed the city's creative efforts, cooperation in promoting and elevating its position as a modern, identity-rich urban area on the international tourism map.
Not only that, the success in co-organizing a series of four major international events including: the General Assembly of the Tourism Promotion Organization for Global Cities (TPO 2025), the 19th Ho Chi Minh City International Tourism Fair (ITE HCMC 2025), the 3rd "Connecting the International Supply Chain - Vietnam International Sourcing" event in 2025 and the Ho Chi Minh City Export Forum in 2025, has created an international economic-tourism week, contributing to affirming the pioneering role of Ho Chi Minh City in the strategy of sustainable economic-tourism development, deep integration with the region and the world.
With a series of international awards in its development journey, Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry has also contributed to making the city one of the best cities in the world for retaining residents, ranking 2nd and surpassing many developed cities such as Singapore, Sydney or Berlin, according to the City Pulse 2025 survey conducted by the Gensler Research Institute, USA.
This result shows that Ho Chi Minh City is not only a place to work or travel, but has become a place worth staying, living and inspiring long-term for residents.
This is also one of the bases for Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry to move to the 2025-2030 period, with a strategy to promote investment attraction to develop leading tourist destinations in Asia through a variety of high-quality products imbued with traditional cultural identity; developing tourism combined with international fairs and exhibitions./.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/thanh-pho-ho-chi-minh-thang-dam-tai-giai-thuong-du-lich-the-gioi-nam-2025-post1070609.vnp
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