On March 26, the Department of Tourism and Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association held a press conference to inform about Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival 3.
The 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival from April 4 to 7, at September 4 Park, District 23, with the theme "9 years of lively journey" associated with the program message "Ho Chi Minh City Welcomes You – Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City”.
There will be 100 booths participating in the festival, including 43 booths from provinces and cities, 35 tourism service businesses and other units.
According to the Department of Tourism, this is an event marking a special milestone of 20 years of promoting the image, people, cultural identity, tourism activities and typical cuisine of the city. At the same time, stimulate domestic tourism during the summer.
The 20th Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival will be from April 4 to 7, at September 4 Park, District 23 with hundreds of tours, promotional products and services to stimulate summer tourism.
However, according to many travel companies, implementing stimulus tours during the 2024 summer peak is not easy in the context of rising air ticket prices, especially for domestic tours using air routes.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Khanh, Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association, acknowledged that domestic tourism is facing competition from price, product quality, and services. This is reality and businesses are always concerned. To cope with rising airfare prices, businesses are turning around to build new tour routes in the direction of increasing high-quality car tours for short distances; Combining travel by plane, train, car...
Mr. Le Truong Hien Hoa, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, said that Ho Chi Minh City tourism industry has worked with airlines and aviation management agencies to capture information and promptly provide solutions. solutions to support businesses in the industry. The increase in air ticket prices is related to the difficulties of the aviation industry due to lack of aircraft, so some options that can be implemented are increasing flight frequency and increasing night flights.
“Encourage tourism businesses to diversify means of transportation, not depending entirely on airplanes. Buying tours right on the festival day also helps tourists buy tours at good prices with promotions, when the city has mobilized travel agencies, accommodation units, and attractions to participate in stimulating demand and reducing prices to help people and tourists. Customers have a channel to access the summer tour program at the best price" - Mr. Hien Hoa said.
According to statistics up to now, there are nearly 400 tourism products and services of travel companies, accommodation establishments, attractions and other service businesses such as (spa, medical tourism). health facilities, dining establishments, shopping establishments)... register to participate in the program with many promotional policies, preferential prices up to 50%.
More than 100 domestic travel programs to famous destinations with ticket prices up to 50% off organized by Saigontourist Travel, Vietravel, Ben Thanh, Saco, Vietluxtour, Doc Doc, Vigotour... and hundreds of tours internationally with special promotional prices.
