With the proposal of a 9-day Lunar New Year holiday in 2025, Vietnam tourism has the opportunity to attract a large number of tourists. Travel companies have launched early Tet tours with attractive prices and many incentives...
Plan your trip early
Immediately after receiving information that the authorities proposed the only option of a 9-day consecutive Lunar New Year holiday in 2025, Ms. Thao Van (Xuan La ward, Tay Ho district, Hanoi) made a specific schedule to travel to Korea with her family.
“Because of visa application and to be proactive with our schedule, my family booked a tour to Korea early to get a good price...”, Ms. Thao Van shared.
"This is also the option that families who travel frequently choose and finalize the program early to proactively arrange their time. I am waiting for the agency to announce the annual holiday schedule on June 30 - May 1 and September 2 next year, with a vacation of 4 - 5 days, to plan domestic and international travel programs," Ms. Phuong Anh (Cau Giay, Hanoi) shared...
During the 2025 Lunar New Year holiday, tourists tend to choose long-term foreign tours to apply for visas. Destinations in Northeast Asia such as China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (China) still maintain strong appeal. In addition, Thailand and Singapore are also two prominent markets in Southeast Asia... due to convenient immigration procedures.
Sharing this issue, Mr. Pham Van Bay, Deputy Director of Vietravel Hanoi, said: The proposal to have a 9-day Lunar New Year holiday in 2025 and to swap working days in 2025 to have 2 long holidays in the year on April 30 - May 1 and September 2 will be a golden opportunity for people to have more time to rest, relax and explore new destinations domestically and internationally. In particular, with the expansion of the holiday period, the tourism industry will have more favorable conditions to develop more diverse and unique tourism products, thereby increasing the opportunity for tourists to have a complete experience. This will not only help the tourism industry recover strongly, but also contribute to promoting the development of related services, creating more value for the economy.
Vietravel representatives predict that tourism demand will continue to increase strongly, especially tours that combine relaxation and traditional cultural experiences. Tourists will tend to choose longer trips, taking advantage of the long break to relax with family and friends. For domestic destinations, tourists are interested in the Quy Nhon - Pleiku - Mang Den - Buon Ma Thuot - Da Lat (8 days 7 nights), Quy Nhon - Tuy Hoa - Nha Trang - Da Lat - Ho Chi Minh City - Tay Ninh (8 days 7 nights) ... because this route not only meets the need to celebrate Tet at home, but also helps family members understand more about their homeland.
According to Mr. Pham Van Bay, airfares are expected to increase as usual during peak holidays due to high travel demand. However, the company always proactively cooperates with airlines to get the best prices for customers, helping to minimize the impact of ticket price increases on tour prices. The company also offers special incentive packages and flexible promotional programs to help customers optimize their spending during Tet such as: Instant refund up to 4 million VND (from November 7 to November 22, 2024), additional travel vouchers up to 1.5 million VND... applicable to routes to distant markets Europe - Australia - America - Africa or the overseas Vietnamese promotion program to celebrate Tet with super attractive prices...".
Meanwhile, Mr. Le Cong Nang, General Director of WonderTour, said that the long Lunar New Year holiday will create a strong boost, bringing practical benefits to businesses, tourists and the entire economy. A longer holiday means an increase in the number of tourists, thereby boosting revenue, expanding the market, diversifying products and improving service quality. It is predicted that tourism revenue can grow from 15% - 20% compared to the same period last year.
WonderTour is focusing on developing unique tourism products, deeply experiencing the culture and traditional Tet customs of Vietnamese people such as: Spring tour to explore unique traditional festivals taking place at the beginning of the new year across the country; homestay tour to experience Tet in the countryside, giving visitors authentic experiences of traditional Tet life in the countryside of Vietnam; spiritual tours at the beginning of the year to famous spiritual destinations to pray for luck and peace for the new year...
Strengthening destination management
Mr. Nguyen Tien Dat, Director of AZA travel, Vice President of the Capital Tourism Club, said: Long holidays are beneficial for stimulating tourism. Regarding domestic tourism, besides long-distance tours, there are also regional tours that attract a large number of people. It is easy to see that famous tourist destinations are overloaded during long holidays, so localities need to soon have coordination policies to avoid overload, reduce environmental pollution and protect traditional indigenous cultural values.
Mr. Phung Quang Thang, Vice President of the Vietnam Tourism Association, said: A very noticeable trend in domestic tourism in recent times is that tourists travel by themselves or only book part of the service through travel agencies. This shows that the application of digital technology in Vietnamese service agencies is increasingly widespread. Therefore, the tourism industry and localities must have common data on the number of visitors through service bookings, thereby having effective coordination.
Mr. Ha Van Sieu, Deputy Director of the National Tourism Administration, said that the tourism industry has a master plan for organizing tourism resource surveys and a tourism resource survey plan; providing guidance on implementing resource surveys in localities. The master plan for organizing tourism resource surveys aims to specify the tasks specified in detail in a number of articles of the Tourism Law; at the same time, aiming to form a tourism resource database system to serve the management, planning, development of tourism products, and development of tourist areas and destinations nationwide.
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