To achieve the target, it will focus on building the image of Ho Chi Minh City as a friendly, attractive and safe destination, pushing through administrative reform, and speeding up tourism growth on the basis of international cooperation and effective competitiveness.

The city will make greater efforts to improve tourism services and human resource training.

In 2012, it received 3.8 million foreign tourists (up 8.5 percent against 2011 and 5 percent above its yearly target), accounting for 56 percent of the total number of foreigners arrivals in Vietnam.

Tourism earnings reached more than VND71 trillion (up 25.3 percent compared to the same period last year), accounting for 44.5 percent of the country's total figure and about 11 percent of the city's GDP.