MPI Japan hosted a seminar on “Trip to ASEANs, charm and latest information of the sightseeing in Vietnam” at August 28th.
Iwashita, the general manager of Travel Journal, delivered a lecture on “the fascination of sightseeing in Vietnam and the latest update on MICE(Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition), and commented on the major sightseeing attractions and patterns of various travel goods in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi.
He introduced various tips for planning a travel in Vietnam, such as, that staying in Hanoi is recommended from October to March, which is usually popular as it being a dry season, and also May and June are recommended as it being mid-summer. Also he introduced that Staying in Ho Chi Minh is best on the new year’s holidays, for the workers return to their hometown.
Horiuchi, a sectional chief of Vietnam Airlines, appealed that the number of flights per week of Vietnam Airlines, JAL and ANA between Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh and Japan are up to 65 to 66, a very easy access of visiting.
He also introduced holiday resorts such as Da-nang district in central Vietnam, as a new spot which has gotten most attentions out of all the Vietnam’s resort spots.
Suzuki, CEO of ISC and administration officer of Association Vietnam in Japan, told about the attractiveness of Vietnam, which included inexpensive cost of living, low crime rate, good old scenery bringing back memories of rural Japan 40 years ago, and beautiful architectural structure from the French colony era.
Also, not only the beauty of world heritages and resort spots, but communications among each generations and among people who are successful on a world wide basis make it able for a unforgettable MICE to be proposed.
Tamai, CEO of E-Tech Group, Inc., gave a proposal of Vietnam’s business chances and immigration to Vietnam after retirement, under the theme “Changing to globalization, corporates shifting their businesses to overseas, senior life getting visible clearly”.
He explained the charms of business deployment in Vietnam with following reasons; reduced rates and exemption to the corporate taxation and to the corporate preferential taxation, annual economic growth of 7 to 8%, fulfilling hospitality, temperament of the citizens blending right in with the people of Japan, and about 30 corporates expanding their business to Vietnam each year. He also talked about interactions he has had with the people involved with MICE on the spot.
Through his overseas experience in Hanoi, he explained about the comfortable retirement life in Hanoi, which has been chosen as the No.1 as the most inexpensive place for travelers. With northern Ho Chi Minh’s rural city concept by Tokyu garden city designs, he said that it was a suitable place to withdraw from society in a positive way overseas.
Vietnam’s distilled spirit, Lua Moi, was served to the attendants, and they also got to receive Vietnamese coffee as a souvenir. It was a seminar that made the attendants feel the air of Vietnam, and that was done not only through the lectures they heard sitting down.