Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, December 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — “In accordance with the directives of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh Cityon December 29thOn 2023, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Department held the award ceremony of the 2023 Ho Chi Minh City Tourist Registration Point and Destination Mascot Design Competition (hereinafter referred to as the Competition ).
This is the first time that the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Department, in collaboration with VnExpress newspaper, has organized a competition to search and select unique design ideas for a tourist registration model and mascot, conveying messages about local culture, history, and people. The aim is to create new tourism products with distinctive characteristics, helping to strengthen the attractiveness of the city’s tourism brand.
With the theme “My Beloved City”, the competition officially kicked off on November 2sd, 2023, including two categories: Design of a tourist registration model and design of a tourist mascot. In just one month since its launch, the competition has received 300 entries from authors, including architects, artists and students of architecture and fine arts, both in the fields Ho Chi Minh City and provinces across the country.
Representing the organizing committee, Mr. Le Truong Hien Hoa, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Department, said: “The competition goes beyond creative artistic design and aims for practical and flexible applicability, for use in promotional tourism activities. visitors have a deeper impression of Ho Chi Minh City. Although this is the organization’s first year and a short launch period, we have received significant interest and response from individuals and organizations. We greatly appreciate the enthusiasm, creativity and love for the city that the authors have expressed through their submitted works. »
At the end of the preliminary round, in each category, the organizing committee selected the 15 most remarkable works for the final. These works were publicly posted on the competition website for readers to participate in voting.
During the final, the authors participated in a creative camp organized by December 15 to December 17 In Ho Chi Minh City. Through activities such as City Tour – Discovering My Beloved City and Meeting the Judges, the authors had the opportunity to explore and discover famous tourist destinations in Ho Chi Minh City. Simultaneously, they received comments and suggestions from the judges to adjust and improve their submitted works. The final judging results were based on judges’ scores (60%) and readers’ votes (40%).
Representing the competition jury, a national teacher, a professor and a doctor Nguyen Xuan Tien said: “The submitted works all demonstrate creativity and contain unique and interesting artistic intentions. They particularly celebrate the monuments, tourist destinations, history and distinctive culture of Ho Chi Minh City. In the second phase of the competition, planned for 2024, when the winning ideas will be evaluated and put into practice, I am confident that this will deepen visitors’ impressions of the city. It will contribute to spreading the beauty of the territory and the inhabitants of Ho Chi Minh City to national and international visitors.
Through the evaluation process, the organizing committee selects and awards prizes to outstanding works. In this regard, the total value of the prize awarded amounts to 630,000,000 VNDincluding cash and gifts from the organizing committee, structured as follows:
- Category: Tourist Registration Template Design:
– 01 Special Prize: 80,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 First Prize: 65,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Second Prize: 55,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Third Prize: 45,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Consolation Prize: 40,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Popular Vote Prize: 40,000,000 VND (money and gifts) - Category: Tourism mascot
– 01 Special Prize: 75,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 First Prize: 60,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Second Prize: 50,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Third Prize: 40,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Consolation Prize: 38,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
– 01 Popular Vote Prize: 38,000,000 VND (money and gifts)
Award-winning works showcase unique aspects of the culture, history and people of Ho Chi Minh Citywhile conveying in a lively and multifaceted way the characteristics of the city’s tourism.
In the next stage of the competition, the winning works will be examined for implementation in the actual construction and used in promotion, advertising and tourism promotion activities, serving economic, socio-cultural development and internal and external relations. external to the city.
Alongside the awards ceremony, there will be an exhibition titled “Ho Chi Minh City Check!” to present the most outstanding and impressive competition entries.
For more detailed information about the competition, please visit the website: https://vnexpress.net/du-lich/thiet-ke-bieu-tuong-du-lich-tp-hcm.
Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Promotion Center
Address:140 Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, Vo Thi Sau districtdistrict 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
E-mail: info@visithcmc.vn
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SOURCE Department of Tourism of Ho Chi Minh City
