Hunting for cheap tours at Tourism Festival

People learn about April 30 and summer tours at the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2025 on the morning of April 3 - Photo: QUANG DINH

Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2025 takes place from April 3 to April 6, with the participation of more than 100 booths from 41 provinces and cities and 32 travel businesses.

The event attracts tourists looking for cheap tours, with hundreds of special tours such as Europe, America, Australia and domestic cultural and historical tours.

With nearly 900 tourism products and services from travel agencies, accommodation establishments, and registered services with discounts of up to 45%, businesses participating in this year's festival offer a wide variety of products and hundreds of unique tours and routes.

Find cheap tours and promotions at noon

From early morning, the booths began to welcome a large number of visitors who came to learn about and buy tours, as well as hunt for promotional gifts and discounted tours. Ms. Bich Dung, a resident of District 1, said she had just finalized a tour to Malaysia - Singapore with a price of about 15 million VND/tour/person for a mother and her child.

“Every year, my family plans to travel and buy at the company office. When I heard about the festival, I came here to buy a tour, which was both fun and gave me gifts such as sun umbrellas and household items. However, to get a discount on the tour, I had to buy it on a certain number of departure dates in the program,” said Ms. Dung.

Many customers stayed all afternoon at the Vietravel booth to get advice and buy tours.

despite the hot weather outside. Tourists are interested in tours to the Northwest, Central Vietnam... because they get direct discounts from 3.5 - 7.5 million VND/person. Especially on April 5, this booth launched a series of long-distance tours to Australia, Europe, America, Egypt and Africa with unprecedented preferential prices.

Ms. Nguyen Nguyet Van Khanh, marketing director of Vietravel, said that most of the tours sold on the first day of the festival were tours departing on April 30 and May 1, or long-distance tours to Europe and the US. “This year, the tour packages with destinations in China have quite good prices, helping buyers save a significant amount of money,” Ms. Khanh said.

At Vietluxtour Travel booth, the cultural and historical tours for the April 30 and May 1 holidays such as: Saigon Special Forces, Saigon - Cho Lon, Saigon: past and present and the new tour Legend of the heroes... attracted many people's attention.

Ms. Tran Thi Bao Thu, director of communications and marketing at Vietluxtour, said that many customers want to spend their holidays in Ho Chi Minh City, joining in the series of events marking the 50th anniversary of national reunification, so inner-city tours are selling very well. The booth also offers discounts of up to VND2 million/person for visitors who register for tours early, with the goal of completing 30% of the summer tour target at this festival.

Meanwhile, Benthanh Tourist's booth also directly discounted tours when visitors purchased tours at the festival. In particular, visitors buying European tours received a direct discount of VND5 million/person, US and Australia tours received a discount of VND3 million/person. Northeast Asia tours (including markets such as Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong) and Singapore received a discount of VND2 million/person.

For groups of customers buying domestic tours to the North or Central regions, there is a discount of 1 million VND/person... Viet Travel Company has launched a tour series "Rotating the travel season - Hunting for the best tours" including more than 300 domestic and international travel programs with discounts of up to 5 million VND/person and thousands of travel utility gifts, opportunities and discount vouchers...

Vietravel Company staff advise customers at the festival - Photo: QUANG DINH

Summer business season kicks off

Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, said that the attraction of the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 2025 comes from the presence of more than 100 booths from 41 provinces and cities and 32 travel, transportation, and airline businesses... The tourism stimulus space is a place where hundreds of high-quality, affordable travel opportunities from localities and leading businesses in the industry converge.

“Nearly 900 tourism products and services from travel agencies, accommodation establishments, tourist attractions, and other service businesses with many promotional policies and preferential prices up to 45%. We also apply science, technology, and artificial intelligence, the city hopes to enhance the experience for tourists,” said Ms. Hoa.

The festival, which will last until April 6, will create opportunities for businesses and customers interested in new tourism trends to connect. For tourism and travel businesses, the tourism festival is an opportunity for them to kick off the summer business season, which is expected to see many changes in consumer behavior and fluctuations in the tourism market.

"Tourists no longer flock to peak times like Tet holidays… but their purchasing power is spread out throughout the year. Even for summer tours, some groups book quite early, but others buy close to the departure date.

Therefore, our summer tourism business plan is no longer based on seasons but divided into stages, meeting the flexibility of customers," Ms. Van Khanh informed.

Many businesses also said that normally every year the festival is an opportunity for individual customers to hunt for good priced tours.

However, this year, the MICE (meetings, incentives, and teambuilding) tourism segment of businesses will also explode. This is the ideal time for businesses and units to organize incentive tours for employees, partners, customers or to connect colleagues and build corporate culture.

Therefore, many booths also offer MICE tourism products within the framework of this year's Tourism Festival.

Promoting the regional connectivity role of Ho Chi Minh City

Speaking at the opening ceremony on April 3, Mr. Huynh Thanh Nhan, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, said that the festival was organized with the main idea of ​​"Convergence and Shine" demonstrating the spirit of openness, connection, and creativity of a dynamic, modern, and unique Ho Chi Minh City - where people, technology, culture, and tourism converge to spread memorable experiences to people and domestic and international tourists.

Along with community exchange activities, this year's Tourism Festival continues to promote its role as a strategic bridge between Ho Chi Minh City and localities nationwide through a series of conferences, seminars and in-depth discussions on issues of social concern related to the tourism sector...

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