The 2024 Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival has the theme "Hanoi Gifts", attracting about 100 participating units, including travel agencies, craft villages, cuisine... and many experience spaces. Coming to the festival, people and tourists enjoy many delicious Hanoi dishes such as green rice flakes, rice rolls, pho rolls, peanut candy, sweet soup, spring rolls, lotus jam... or participate in activities such as making bamboo dragonflies, making art flowers, recycling... This year, the festival welcomed about 20,000 people and tourists to visit and experience.
Introducing the specialty of Hanoi's green rice at the festival, Ms. Vu Thi Phuc (Moc Lam green rice establishment) said: "We want to spread green rice - a typical gift of Hanoi to young people and tourists, so that everyone remembers the autumn of Hanoi, remembers the scent of green rice from long ago. This year's festival has fried green rice, green rice sticky rice, fresh green rice... designed as a gift that is both imbued with the colors of the capital, and beautiful and neat for everyone to buy as gifts."
At the festival, travel companies also bring many "gifts" to visitors in the form of promotions and tour discounts by launching tours to Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, Singapore - Malaysia... with preferential prices, along with special discount opportunities.
"This year, distant destinations are subject to high prices due to increased airfares and on-site services, while purchasing power has decreased. Therefore, at the Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival 2024, we mainly advise on nearby travel routes such as Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia... with reasonable prices, suitable for the general needs of Hanoi customers," said a travel agency director.
Craft villages and creative design units are also "contributing" to the capital's tourism industry, together spreading traditional culture to create an impression of Hanoi in the hearts of tourists.
The sales director of another travel company shared: "We bring to the Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival many gift products, designed specifically for tourists. These products are compact, related to the culture and history of Hanoi and Vietnam, with environmentally friendly materials. Instead of products from other localities, Hanoi also has many beautiful and sophisticated products, such as engraved lacquer paintings, paper paintings, paper bags... all of which are loved by tourists."
In addition, experiential activities at 4-star and 5-star hotels in Hanoi are also attracting the attention of residents and tourists; responding to the tourism stimulus program of the Hanoi Department of Tourism and towards the 70th anniversary of the Capital Liberation Day (October 10, 2024).
Some programs such as culinary experiences, painting classes, moon cake making classes... have encouraged tourists and residents to come to hotels in the capital, considering this a destination for experience or rest and relaxation instead of thinking of hotels as just places to sleep.
Participating in a recent postcard making program, Minh Huyen (Cau Giay District, Hanoi) said that on weekends, many people living in Hanoi have the need to "travel on the spot" or seek relaxing experiences to improve their spirits.
"Although I have lived in Hanoi for quite a while, I have not had the opportunity to explore 4-5 star hotels in the inner city. Perhaps these hotels need to have more experiential activities such as painting, baking... For example, this hotel has a very beautiful location overlooking Hoan Kiem Lake. When they organized the postcard making program, it attracted me and everyone to participate, especially in the relaxing space and very pleasant autumn weather," Minh Huyen shared.
Accordingly, creative art programs such as making postcards of Vietnamese landscapes have helped the unit stimulate demand, encouraging tourists and Hanoians to use the hotel's services. Towards the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of the Capital, the hotel is applying a policy of early check-in at 10am and late check-out at 2pm, so that visitors have more time to experience Hanoi and enjoy the space around Hoan Kiem Lake.
It can be seen that through programs initiated by the Hanoi Department of Tourism such as Stimulating demand, experiencing at luxury hotels or Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival 2024, the orientation of the management agency and the connection of related units in the industry such as hotels, travel, cuisine, craft villages, gift businesses... will help Hanoi become an increasingly attractive destination with diverse services, activities and experiences.
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Source: https://vov.vn/du-lich/ha-noi-thu-hut-du-khach-qua-le-hoi-qua-tang-du-lich-post1116652.vov
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