Summer - the peak season for domestic tourism, besides long trips to destinations far from home, sightseeing, experiences, enjoying art, and culinary specialties right in the place where you live are also among the trends chosen by many tourists.
Meet the need for entertainment and experience in a short time
Local tourism - traveling to destinations right in the place where tourists live is one of the tourism trends with many advantages: no need to travel too far, not long, maybe only half a day, 1 day, moderate cost, suitable for working and studying conditions of many tourists who find it difficult to arrange long-term trips.
The family of Ms. Tran My Chau (Ward 24, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City) spent the weekend Saturday visiting the city where the family lives with a new perspective from a tour on a double-decker bus, completely different from the daily hurried trips on the way to work and school of the family members.
During this short tour, her family members were able to leisurely admire many destinations such as the bustling Pham Ngu Lao neighborhood, Ben Thanh market, War Remnants Museum, Ho Thi Ky flower market, Binh Tay market, Ba Thien Hau pagoda...
Ms. My Chau said that summer has begun, but this year her family has a son who is taking the high school graduation exam and applying for university admission, so they cannot arrange a long trip yet.
A short trip, only half a day, looking at the streets, the buildings that seem familiar yet strange from a bird's eye view, then the whole family enjoyed food at a famous restaurant right in the heart of the city. Everyone felt comfortable, as if being recharged with positive energy.
Meanwhile, Ngan Dung - an employee of a technology company, and her group of friends decided to "change the wind" for the weekend by booking a tour to Nha Be - a district over 10km from the center of Ho Chi Minh City.
With a time period from 5:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., the short tour "Nha Be - 1001 nights" brings Ngan Dung and her group of friends many interesting discoveries, better understanding the familiar folk song "Nha Be water flows into two. Whoever goes to Gia Dinh, Dong Nai, go back."
When night falls, cycling on the open road, visiting the Ngu Hanh Temple relic, listening to stories about an ancient village, stopping by a restaurant to enjoy unique specialties such as Truong Da noodles handmade from rice flour and black sesame or mortar porridge will surprise Ngan Dung and her friends with fresh emotions and gentle relaxation.
According to Penguin Travel Company - a travel agency with many tours within Ho Chi Minh City, in the modern pace of life with work and economic pressure, traveling right in the place where tourists live is one of the trends chosen by many people, besides trips with destinations far from their place of residence.
Saving time and money, this form of tourism creates opportunities for people to explore and better understand the cultural values and landscapes of the land they are living in.
Currently, half-day or one-day tours within the city or to the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City are not only of interest to city residents but also to business travelers who take the opportunity to visit and explore the bustling urban area or the peaceful suburban countryside.
Adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City is Binh Duong province, which has many tourist destinations that attract not only tourists but also local residents.
Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Binh Duong province, Nguyen Thanh Phong, said that Binh Duong has strong industrial development, attracting over 1.3 million workers to work in industrial parks.
The demand for tourism and entertainment on weekends at destinations within the province and neighboring localities is very high. Resort tourism, eco-tourism on weekends, entertainment and sports tourism are the main tourism products of Binh Duong.
The province has many attractive destinations, suitable for short vacations and weekend travel such as Lai Thieu Garden, Dai Nam tourist areas, Thuy Chau, Din Ky green tourism, Phuong Nam resort, Cau Doi Camping, and Cau Dau Tieng Mountain.
Innovation, connectivity increase attractiveness
According to Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, connecting diverse tourism products, in addition to itineraries, tours, and routes to regions across the country and abroad, Ho Chi Minh City Tourism also actively exploits short tours, within the city or to the suburbs.
Many localities have combined with travel agencies, tourism service providers, cuisine, transportation... to innovate and exploit in the direction of linkage, creating reasonable product chains according to themes or routes with tourism resources, meeting the diverse needs of tourists and city residents.
For example, District 4, District 7 and Nha Be District combine many prominent destinations, exploiting short, attractive tourist routes including destinations with the common theme "A corner of green Saigon" including destinations such as Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City Branch, Anh Sao Bridge, Cu Lao Xanh Eco-tourism Area, and a water hyacinth handicraft production facility. Districts 1, 3 and 10 combine inter-district tourism products with the theme of historical and cultural relics "Legendary bunkers" focusing on taking tourists to visit relics and places where the resounding victories of the Saigon Special Forces took place during the resistance years.
From the Mekong Delta, according to information from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Can Tho city, along with tourists from other localities in the country and international tourists, the number of tourists who are residents of Can Tho coming to visit, have fun, and relax at eco-tourism spots, garden houses, historical and spiritual relics on weekends, holidays, and Tet is quite large.
Tourist attractions regularly update information, innovate products, and enhance experiences such as organizing seasonal fruit harvests, cooking from local agricultural products during the flood season, exploiting folk games, instructing tourists on how to make traditional cakes and dishes, etc., making tourists feel the excitement and freshness of their locality even when they visit many times.
In particular, in the coming time, after merging administrative boundaries with Hau Giang and Soc Trang provinces, Can Tho city (new) will have more attractive and diverse tourism products to attract tourists.
Also mentioning the development of local tourism, some experts say that local tourism is a need of many people because not everyone can regularly and quickly arrange a long trip to destinations far from their place of residence.
This is an opportunity to increase revenue for the tourism and service economy of many localities, especially densely populated cities.
Dr. To Ngoc Thinh, University of Commerce, believes that in order to create excitement and novelty right from the places and experiences that seem familiar to residents, it requires that activities and sightseeing itineraries be exploited flexibly, diversely, and have impressive highlights by service, tourism, and construction businesses.
Along with that, promotion and marketing work also needs attention. With the market being the city's residents, this activity needs even more attention, creating favorable conditions for them to decide to choose and experience a truly interesting and attractive on-site tour./.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/du-lich-tai-cho-hanh-trinh-ngan-xu-huong-duoc-nhieu-du-khach-lua-chon-post1041848.vnp
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