Tet tours start early, prices increase slightly

As soon as the autumn-winter tour package was activated, travel and tourism companies also started offering Tet At Ty 2025 tour programs.

Tourists depart for spring travel on the occasion of Tet 2024 - Photo: QN

The Tet tour This year, not only are there a variety of itineraries, but almost every destination has many departure date options, commonly from December 23 to the 10th day of the Lunar New Year. Because this year's Tet holiday lasts 9 days, it is expected that many tourists, especially family groups, will choose to travel to enjoy the holiday with their loved ones.

Companies said that with the announced holiday time, many places have boldly launched specialized products for both domestic and international tourism, which is also the trend of Tet tourism this year.

Since the beginning of October, Saigontourist Travel has launched its Tet At Ty 2025 tour programs. This unit offers discounts of up to 10 million VND for foreign tours for customers who book 2-3 months in advance. According to a representative of Saigontourist Travel, tourists usually choose the best departure date on the 2nd day of Tet.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoai Nguyen, General Director of Benthanh Tourist, said that the company's Lunar New Year 2025 tour was designed based on the survey results of more than 42,000 customers about the most anticipated destination in 2025.

Accordingly, the top 10 favorite destinations in 2025 include names familiar to the Vietnamese market such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Singapore...

Based on this list, the company develops many new tour routes, adds more attractive attractions and experiences, well meeting the spring travel needs of customers.

"Depending on the route and departure time, the price of Lunar New Year 2025 tours will increase from 4 to 23% compared to normal days. With the 9-day Tet holiday, it is expected that tours to distant markets will be the priority choice of customers," said Mr. Nguyen.

Ms. Tran Thi Bao Thu, marketing and communications director of Vietluxtour Company, also said that Tet tour prices will maintain an increase of about 5 - 15% compared to normal prices, depending on the route. This unit has prepared its year-end business plan quite early, from the end of the second quarter of 2024, to have a series of tickets and good services in terms of departure time and price.

"We are promoting many group contracts for the programs year-end trip of many businesses and the start of the peak inbound tourism season in target markets in Europe, Australia, the US, Northeast Asia... We expect the growth rate at the end of this year in mid-markets to be about 20-25% compared to the same period last year," said Ms. Thu.

With the expected increase in Tet tour prices compared to the same period, travel companies have also diversified their mid-priced tour lines such as Japan groups from 27 million VND, tours to Korea from 19 million VND... Outbound tours to Thailand and Singapore, which are familiar to young people during Tet, will be designed for families to have time to increase their connections, priced from 15 million VND...

Meanwhile, domestic tour packages are more selective and are sold cautiously due to high airfares and some areas are also dependent on the weather.

According to records, some travel and tourism companies are implementing preferential policies of discounts, gifts for group purchases or travel gifts for tourists who book tours early depending on each route. However, the popular form of promotion is to encourage customers to book tours early and book in groups of friends.

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