DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

DestinAsian 2025 Best Cities

TP. Hồ Chí Minh lọt top 10 thành phố du lịch hàng đầu châu Á 2025. Mới đây, DestinAsian – Tạp chí du lịch và phong cách sống, khu vực châu Á – Thái Bình Dương đã công bố danh sách Giải thưởng Readers’ Choice Awards 2025: trong đó TP. Hồ Chí Minh vinh dự xếp hạng tư trong bảng 10 thành phố du lịch hàng đầu Châu Á.

Giải thưởng thường niên Readers’ Choice Awards nhằm vinh danh các điểm đến, khách sạn, khu nghỉ, cơ sở kinh doanh du lịch, hãng tàu, máy bay tại châu Á – Thái Bình Dương. Danh sách các điểm đến được bình chọn dựa trên số phiếu của các chuyên gia du lịch và khách du lịch. Tiêu chí bình chọn các ứng cử viên dựa theo đánh giá của khách du lịch về vị trí điểm đến, các trải nghiệm tại đó, mức độ thân thiện của người dân địa phương, ẩm thực, giao thông, cơ sở hạ tầng, sự thuận tiện của các đường bay, giá cả.

DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Bangkok, Thailand
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Bangkok, Thailand

The 18th annual poll of DestinAsian readers to pick out their favourite hotels, destinations, airports, cruise lines, and more in the Asia-Pacific region. The votes from this year’s survey have since been tallied, creating a definitive lineup of the very best in travel as chosen by DestinAsian’s discerning audience. Curious to know if your nominations made the list? Read on to find out who topped the rankings for 2025.

Asian Destinations: Best Cities

🇹🇭 Bangkok
🇸🇬 Singapore
🇯🇵 Tokyo
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
🇰🇷 Seoul
🇦🇺 Sydney
🇨🇳 Shanghai
🇹🇼 Taipei

Read on to find out who topped the rankings for 2025

DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Vibrating with energy, innovation and traffic, Ho Chi Minh City 🇻🇳 formerly known as Saigon, is the economic heart of Vietnam and the main hub of the southern region. A freewheeling, cosmopolitan metropolis, HCMC’s dynamic cityscape draws together old and new Vietnam in the most compact of spaces, representing the city’s past as well as its future. This city has many well-known attractions, including the War Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica, and Ben Thanh Market.

Top things to do in Ho Chi Minh City, by Vietnam.Travel

See the top landmarks | Walk down Đồng Khởi street to acquaint yourself with the Notre Dame Cathedral, the city’s Central Post Office, and the Saigon Opera House. On a more local level, Bến Thành Market and the Jade Emperor Pagoda are worth a visit.

DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Góp mặt trong danh sách 10 thành phố du lịch hàng đầu châu Á – Thái Bình Dương, TP. Hồ Chí Minh cuốn hút du khách bởi nguồn năng lượng luôn tràn đầy, cuộc sống năng động, nhộn nhịp và đặc biệt sôi động khi về đêm. Những khu phố ẩm thực tấp nập, những hàng quán đông đúc, khu phố đi bộ với vô vàn hoạt động thú vị, hay các quán bar, pub mở xuyên đêm… du khách sẽ không bao giờ cảm thấy nhàm chán khi đến với Sài Gòn hoa lệ.

Bui Vien Walking Street, known for its vibrant nightlife, is located in the heart of District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, offering a mix of street food, cafes, and bars that stay open until dawn. Photo by Lim Eng on Unsplash.
Bui Vien Walking Street, known for its vibrant nightlife, is located in the heart of District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, offering a mix of street food, cafes, and bars that stay open until dawn. Photo by Lim Eng on Unsplash.

Bên cạnh những kiến trúc hiện đại như tòa Bitexco, Landmark 81, khu Vinhomes, những tín đồ du lịch chắc chắn sẽ không khỏi ấn tượng và thích thú với những công trình cổ với bề dày lịch sử như Nhà thờ Đức Bà, Bưu điện Thành phố, chùa Bà Thiên Hậu… Dành cho những tâm hồn yêu thích tìm hiểu lịch sử có thể ghé thăm Bảo tàng Chứng tích chiến tranh, Địa đạo Củ Chi, Bảo tàng Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh…

Đặc biệt, du khách chắc chắn không thể bỏ qua ẩm thực đường phố đã nhiều lần được báo chí quốc tế ca ngợi, đề xuất với những món ăn đậm chất Sài Gòn như cơm tấm, bánh mì, phá lấu, hủ tiếu, bún thị nướng, bún bò…

[Nguồn: Trung tâm Thông tin du lịch | vietnamtourism.gov.vn]

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Shop small boutiques | Around District 1, a host of old apartments and former office buildings have been repurposed as shopping centres. Decades-old buildings such as 22 Lý Tự Trọng and 42 Nguyễn Huệ are brimming with all kinds of fascinating stores.

Explore the Chinese Quarter | The Chinese neighbourhood known as Chợ Lớn is great for exploring on foot. Head for Bình Tây Market, a colossal wholesale trading centre, and Thiên Hậu Pagoda, an atmospheric temple that pays homage to the goddess of the sea.

Hilton Saigon | Stay near the sights and sounds of Saigon
Hilton Saigon | Stay near the sights and sounds of Saigon

Hop on a motorcycle | Do as the locals do and hop on the back of a motorbike to see the city on street level and feel its energetic pulse. Motorbike tours set off in the evening, when the city is at its most romantic and the sidewalk vendors are out in force.

Eat street food | Ho Chi Minh City locals love to gather around dented metal tables across the city for incredible roadside feasts. Don’t miss highlights such as bánh mì, southern-style savoury pancakes (bánh xèo) and broken rice (cơm tấm).

Top things to do in Ho Chi Minh City
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Known popularly as Saigon, this vibrant city is described as the “Pearl of the Far East” because of charming heritage buildings, dynamic, vibrant, exciting atmosphere and friendly people. These are just some of the great qualities that make Ho Chi Minh City a dazzling destination for travelers.
Known popularly as Saigon, this vibrant city is described as the “Pearl of the Far East” because of charming heritage buildings, dynamic, vibrant, exciting atmosphere and friendly people. These are just some of the great qualities that make Ho Chi Minh City a dazzling destination for travelers.

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DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Singapore
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Singapore

From the city’s stunning skyline to iconic landmarks such as Marina Bay Sands and the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore is jam-packed with iconic attractions. The seamless mix of technology, innovation, and natural beauty makes visiting Singapore an unforgettable experience.

DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Shanghai, China
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Shanghai, China

Shanghai is a popular tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as The Bund, City God Temple and Yuyuan Garden, as well as the extensive and growing Lujiazui skyline. It has been described as the ‘showpiece’ of the booming economy of mainland China.

DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Shanghai, China
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Shanghai, China

Shanghai, a municipality directly under the central government of China, is a modern international metropolis with a spirit of inclusivity, pursuit of excellence, open-mindedness, and humility. Shanghai located at the Yangtze River estuary in East China and facing the Pacific Ocean, forms part of the Yangtze River Delta, which is one of China’s most robust, open and innovative regions.

DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Bangkok, Thailand
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Bangkok, Thailand

An increasing of tourists visiting Bangkok each year has proven that Bangkok is always a popular city for tourists. For major tourist attractions in Bangkok, most of them are historical sites or religious sites such as temples in Bangkok. There is beautiful architecture, wall painting and also important in history, such as Wat Phra Sri Rattanasamaram (Phra Kaew), Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon Mangalaram (Wat Pho), Wat Arun Ratchawararam, Wat Sra Ket, and Phra Bor Banphot (Golden Mountain), Wat Ratchanadda, Wat Traimit, Wat Benchamabophit, Wat Bowonniwet Vihara Suthasan, Wat Thep Wararam etc.

DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Bangkok, Thailand
DestinAsian 2025 readers choice awards for Best Cities: Bangkok, Thailand

There are also other interesting places such as palaces, museums, parks, as well as various shopping centres in Bangkok. There are both chilling places like Chatuchak Weekend Market, Sampeng Market, Yaowarat and Phahurat Night Market or luxury level such as many leading department stores in all areas of Bangkok as well.

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Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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