While advertising a series of discounted tours for the 2024 Lunar New Year, Ms. Luong Le Thu (a travel agency employee in Hanoi) said that because some foreign tours still have vacancies, travel companies are lowering prices and offering them for sale to attract more customers.
Many tours are discounted near the Lunar New Year. (Photo: Vietluxtour)
"These tours are mainly to some nearby countries in Southeast Asia and Asia. Travel businesses sell at original prices to fill up previously planned tours. Therefore, if customers buy tours at this time, they can benefit up to several million VND," said Ms. Thu.
According to Ms. Thu, some tours are being heavily discounted. These include the 5-day, 4-night Malaysia and Singapore tour, departing on the 2nd day of Tet from Hanoi , priced at 12.9 million VND (old price: 15.9 million VND); the 6-day, 5-night Dubai tour, priced at 32.9 million VND; the 5-day, 4-night Thailand tour, departing on the 3rd day of Tet from Hanoi, priced at 7.5 million VND (old price: 9.9 million VND)...
Explaining the reason why many tours are discounted before Tet, Mr. Pham Duy Nghia, CEO of Vietfoot Travel, said that due to the economic crisis in the country and the world, people will tighten their spending to ensure their finances. Therefore, the need to travel is the first factor that people choose to cut down.
"The number of tourists for Lunar New Year this year is only half of last year's. We also predicted that the number of tourists this year would decrease, so we proactively reduced the number of tours sold. However, currently the number of tourists is only about 2/3 of the number of seats offered," Mr. Nghia informed.
According to Mr. Nghia, due to the large number of vacant seats, even though it is almost Tet and the departure date is approaching, businesses are forced to offer promotional prices and incentives to attract customers to buy tours.
"Businesses can accept selling at break-even or even at a loss to have enough tourists as planned, avoiding the situation of 'busting' tours," said Mr. Nghia.
According to some travel agencies in Hanoi, the discounted tours during the Lunar New Year are mainly foreign tours. Because currently, Vietnamese tourists can travel abroad very easily in some markets such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore... because there are many flights to Vietnam.
"These foreign markets have costs ranging from a few million to more than 10 million VND, which is affordable and therefore chosen by many customers," said a travel agency in Hanoi.
Having just chosen a 5-day, 4-night tour to Thailand, departing on the 3rd day of Tet with a price of 7.5 million VND/person for her honeymoon, Ms. Ngo Thi Xuyen said that initially, she and her husband planned to wait until summer to travel. However, after seeing a discounted tour advertised online, they discussed and decided to go during Tet holiday.
"The tour departs on the third day of Tet, so my husband and I can celebrate Tet with our families and travel after the wedding. I found the schedule reasonable and the price was preferential, so I decided to book the tour right away, " said Ms. Xuyen.
Thanh Lam
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