Businesses simultaneously launch promotional tours
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has set a target of welcoming 17-18 million international visitors in 2024 (12.6 million in 2023) and 110 million domestic visitors. To achieve this goal, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has directed localities to implement a domestic tourism stimulus program with the theme "Vietnamese people travel to Vietnam - Vietnam I love".
Information from travel agencies shows that tourism trends in 2024 are changing. Accordingly, coastal destinations such as Quang Ninh, Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Nha Trang, Phan Thiet, Phu Quoc, etc. are favorite destinations for many Vietnamese tourists in the summer.
According to Pham Van Bay, Deputy Director of Vietravel Hanoi Branch, the peak summer season accounts for 70% of the tourism industry's annual revenue. To stimulate summer tourism in 2024, from now until July 31, Vietravel will launch a new product line with attractive prices. In particular, the company has also launched a preferential program of refunding from 1-3 million VND/person for customers who register and complete payment for the tour value. In addition, it will launch incentives for groups and families with young children to stimulate tourism as well as help tourists optimize costs.
Not out of the race to stimulate summer tourism in 2024, Saigontourist Company offers a series of domestic tours with discounts of up to 50%. Not only offering many special tour packages, Saigontourist also has preferential prices for customers buying individual services or free & easy services (air tickets, high-speed train tickets, hotels, sightseeing tours...).
To facilitate tourists to enjoy the summer of 2024, General Director of Viet Tourism Media Joint Stock Company Pham Phuong Anh said that the company offers preferential prices for Nha Trang, Phu Quoc, Vung Tau sea tours... or exploring the North such as the island journey from only 4,999,000 VND/person, the East - Northwest tour from only 8,999,000 VND/person; the Central heritage journey from only 6,999,000 VND/person...
In addition, to meet the needs of groups, organizations, and companies for employees to relax, the unit applies attractive incentives when buying a group tour, giving away a single tour, giving away a package of organizing team building games on the beach.
Information from travel companies shows that businesses not only commit to practical incentives, encouraging customers to buy and book tours early, but also share with tourists when airfares increase through promotions to book airfares at direct prices from the airline.
Explaining the reason for the tour prices cooling down after the April 30 holiday, the travel agency representative said that they had been holding a series of tickets since the beginning of the year, so they had better prices than during the Tet holiday, thereby providing many tours with good prices for tourists this summer to stimulate tourism.
Cheap and popular foreign tours
In fact, although travel agencies have launched many programs to stimulate domestic tourism, high airfares have caused a number of people to turn around and choose to buy cheap foreign tours to Southeast Asian countries and China.
Grasping this need, travel agencies are offering a series of foreign tours with a cost of less than 10 million VND. Director of Anhduong Tour Company Tuan Anh said that currently, tours to tourist destinations in China, Thailand, Cambodia, etc. are very popular with tourists because of their low cost and attractive schedules. They can choose tours by car, which are convenient and cost-effective. "Some of the tours that are booked by many customers include the Binh Bien - Kien Thuy - Khai Vien - Mong Tu (China) tour for 3 days and 3 nights, departing from Hanoi for only 3.9 million VND/person; the Nanning - Thai Binh ancient town tour for 3 days and 2 nights for 4.5 million VND/person; the Hanoi - Thailand tour for 5 days and 4 nights, traveling by plane for 9.9 million VND/person" - Mr. Tuan Anh gave an example.
Having just booked a tour to Thailand, Ms. Nguyen Thu Trang in lane 85 Nguyen Luong Bang (Dong Da) shared that initially her family of 5 planned to travel to Nha Trang together. However, when she learned that the airfare was up to 7 million VND/person, while the 5-day, 4-night Thailand tour was offered for 10 million VND/person, the family decided to buy a Thailand tour.
"With more than 10 million VND, if we go to Nha Trang, our family will spend more than half to buy plane tickets. The remaining amount is not enough to rent a hotel, experience cuisine and have fun. But with the same amount of money, a tour to Thailand is already a package, we can visit another country, this is a more reasonable and economical option" - Ms. Trang said.
Director of VietSense Travel Nguyen Van Tai said that the expected peak season is from the end of May when students start their summer vacation. Currently, many foreign tours in late May and early June are fully booked. “The most popular market is China, a series of 5-day, 4-night road tours cost only 4-10 million VND, and tours to Thailand by plane are also less than 10 million VND. These tours are in high demand, and as soon as they are opened, they are fully booked, so we have to work with partners to open many more tours,” said Mr. Tai.
To facilitate people to travel in the summer of 2024, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has sent a document to Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet, Tre Viet, Vietravel Airlines... requesting airlines to coordinate with tourism businesses to develop programs and plans to exploit to localities and countries with key tourism. Thereby supporting and promoting domestic and international tourism activities.
Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/du-lich-he-tang-suc-nong.html
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