In the first six months of this year, Ho Chi Minh City served 2.68 million visitors, up 38% year on year, fulfilling 44.6% of the city’s target for the whole year, with a tourism revenue of 3.63 billion USD, a year-on-year rise of 14.6%. The results were attributed to the city’s efforts in organising various large-scale tourism activities and strengthening linkage with foreign tourism markets. In the Jan-May period, Vietnam welcomed 530,000 tourists from Taiwan, of whom about 193,000 visited HCM City, making Taiwan the fifth largest international market of the city. The municipal department has asked for cooperation from embassies and tourism promotion agencies of other countries in exchanging information and introduce the culture, people and tourism of Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City to people of other countries and vice versa through each other’s communications channels. The department has invited foreign countries’ embassies and tourism promotion agencies to join the International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City slated for September 5-7.