Saigon Tourist (Vietnamese: Tổng Công ty Du lịch Sài Gòn) is a state-owned enterprise head-quartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It owns and manages hotels, restaurants and runs guided tours in southern Vietnam as well as throughout central Vietnam.
Saigon Tourist owns a large number of hotels in Ho Chi Minh City, including the Caravelle Hotel, Rex Hotel, Hotel Continental Saigon, Hotel Majestic. It also owns two hotels in the north (Hanoi and Ha Long City) as well as several hotels in cities throughout central Vietnam, including Vinh, Dong Hoi, Hue, Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Nha Trang, Phan Rang, Mui Ne, and Da Lat.
Saigon Tourist was set up just after the end of the Vietnam War to take charge of many of Saigon's hotels and restaurants.[1] It diversified somewhat in the 1990s, but mainly remained focused on its core businesses in the hotel, tourism, and entertainment sectors, which were growing rapidly.[1] It also developed interests in banking and distribution, becoming the leading shareholder in the joint-stock commercial bank Oricom Bank and the distributor of Ford in Vietnam.[2] In 1995, Saigon Tourist was the seventeenth largest company by turnover in Ho Chi Minh City.[1]