Tourism Ho Chi Minh City is implementing the policy is developed tourism industry of the city's strengths and develop tourism brand the city with many tourist products such as river tours program "Ho Chi Minh City - 100 interesting things," tourism program standards and performance art show features special cultural tourist service. Many solutions to improve service quality, diversified products have been developed, which focus on the type of travel savings, travel free & easy for customers to join the tour with a reasonable price. Tourism promotion is well organized with events and festivals are held periodically in conjunction with the exhibition tourism activities, tourism fairs in the country. Currently the tourism industry is working with the Institute for Tourism Research and Development of steps of the city master plan implementation of tourism development Cities 2011-2020, Vision 2030. Implement action plan for tourism development in the direction of Gio waterways including rivers surveyed two routes, promoting two short-range routes Ben Bach Dang River - Village Painters and medium Saigon-Binh Duong-Old Chi. Promote affiliate programs for tourism development triangle between Ho Chi Minh - Binh Thuan - Lam Dong and tourism cooperation with provinces Ninh Thuan and Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen. The city also opened classes in hospitality management for small and medium class skill skilled chamber, kitchen, reception; implementing training courses for tourist drivers and service personnel on transportation vehicles tourists, professional training class tourism for tourists force protection, training plans, training and professional narrators card ... Many hotels have a positive construction, renovation and upgrading of new infrastructure, facilities and services such as the Rex Hotel (284 rooms) has been invested in upgrading the old area and build more shopping malls, Movenpick Hotel (251 rooms) have been improved and new equipment ... The entire hotel average occupancy rate of between 3-5 star hotels reached 70%, up 5% over the same this time in 2010. In this May 9, international visitors to the city reached 2,420,000, up 11% over the same period last year. Total tourism revenue reached about 34,000 billion, up 21% over the same period and reached 70% of the plan in 2011.