Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival attracts customers with promotional tours

Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival The 18th was held from May 14 to 17, at Le Van Tam Park, District 1, attracting thousands of people to visit, learn and buy domestic and international tours at promotional prices.

Thailand tour 5 days 4 nights with 5.99 million VND at TransViet Travel Company; Tour Experience Saigon sightseeing cruise – Pearl of the Far East of TST Tourist Company, departing on May 19, priced at 1.98 million VND/pax compared to the officially announced price of 2,568 million VND…

The booth of Fiditour Travel Company – Vietluxtour also has more than 100 domestic and foreign tours until December, varied in time with demand-stimulating prices. On this occasion, tour lines showing class, tailor-made are also offered for sale, for example, the Maldives 5-day 4-night tour reduces one million dong/pax from a group of 3 guests and 1.5 million dong/pax with a group of 5 guests. above.

Similarly, Vietravel also offers a discount of up to 3 million VND for groups of 4-6 people when buying direct tours at home and abroad. In addition, the 31st SEA Games tours are also of interest to tourists. Accordingly, customers who buy the Northern tour in May will receive tickets to watch the SEA Games qualifying match at Viet Tri Stadium (Phu Tho).

In the first two days, travel businesses said that customers often come to learn and refer to the tour, until the last two days to “close the order”. Mr. Quang Nguyen, who lives in District 1, shared that compared to buying a tour online, coming directly to receive more detailed advice, the staff guide the procedure quickly. Now I only preview the Northwest and Northeast tours and then return to discuss with my family, if it is reasonable on the last day, I will come back to buy the tour”, he shared.

Travel businesses assess that guests have a real travel need, they spend a lot of time learning about the schedule from 15 to 20 minutes. Then they consult with relatives or are ready to “pay down” if they like.

Mr. Bui Thanh Tu, Marketing Director of Best Price Travel, said that the event exceeded expectations when it was crowded with tourists. “After Covid-19, cheap tours are not necessarily the top concern of guests, but also service quality. For example, a tour is higher than 100,000-200,000 VND, but the difference is worthy, attractive, and quality is guaranteed. quality, customers still buy. In addition, the reputation of the company is also very important for customers to trust and choose,” Mr. Tu said.

Domestic tourism is assessed by some travel agencies to have reached 80-90% compared to before the epidemic. Guests have more diverse and spread needs than before, not only focusing on familiar destinations, visitor statistics from the 30/4 and 1/5 holiday are an example. This is also a problem for tourism businesses to expand sightseeing tours to serve guests in the near future.

Mr. Tran The Dung, Director of Fiditour – Vietluxtour travel company, shared that with good disease control and no more travel restrictions, it will create favorable conditions to stimulate summer tourism. In which, mass guests and group guests will return to the way they were before the epidemic.

Huynh Nhi