Travel companies in Ho Chi Minh City are positive about strong travel demand during the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) as both domestic and outbound tours are mostly booked fully.
Tourists enjoy a bike tour exploring Hanoi’s Old Quarter. (Photo hanoimoi.com.vn)
HCM City (VNA)ܫ - Travel companies in Ho Chi MinhCity are positive about strong travel demand during the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) asboth domestic and outbound tours are mostly booked fully.
Tour operators like Saigontourist, Vietravel, and TSTTouriston December 26 reported that their tours departing from Ho Chi Minh City to thesouthern provinces of Binh Duong, Long An, and Tien Giang are booked fully. According to a representative from Saigontourist, this LunarNew Year holidays, it offers more than 300 package tours, both domesticand overseas tours, to serve more than 20,000 travellers through the holiday. Besides popular tours to Phu Quoc, Nha Trang, and northernprovinces, overseas tours are also welcomed. The company this year also offerstours to South American countries. Tran Phuong Linh, Marketing Director of BenThanh Tourist, said that the travel company prepares over 100 tours for the Tet holidays andexpects to attract about 10,000 travellers. Until now, 90% of its tours are full, she said. Meanwhile, travel companies in the central province of ThuaThien-Hue offer programmes that take advantage of the spring festival “Springin Ancient Capital” taking place from January to March 2023. Other travel companies have designed new tours based on themeeting of the royal Lunar New Year Celebration and general celebration whichis said to create typical characteristics of the Tet celebration of Hue people. According to Thua Thien-Hue province’s Tourism PromotionCentre, the provincial Department of Tourism and the provincial Tourism Association develop newservices to attract visitors to Hue during the Tet holidays besides traditionalattractions like the royal festival or folk festivals. In the central city of Da Nang, when designing tours, travel companies this year pay more attention to factors that offer touristsopportunities to experience warm family gatherings. They also have tours designated for Chinese-origin peopleliving in Malaysia or Singapore to visit Da Nang city. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Chairman of the municipal Travel Association, said that thenumber of visitors to Da Nang city from December 2022 to January 2023 is forecast to increase by 30%-40% compared with other months in 2022./.
Offering disadvantaged workers a warm, happy Tet and reuniting their families on the holiday, Vietjet and HD SAISON will give two free flights to bring workers back home to enjoy the Lunar New Year 2023.
Navy Region 4 ships carrying officers, soldiers, journalists as well as New Year gifts departed from Cam Ranh military port in the central province of Khanh Hoa on December 21 for Truong Sa (Spratly).
The Naval Region 2 High Command on December 26 sent two delegations to visit officers and soldiers on duty on DK1 platforms, ships on duty, and agencies and units stationed in Con Dao district of the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau, on the occasion of the approaching lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
The HCM City will host its annual floating flower festival in District 8 to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. The “Tren Ben Duoi Thuyen” (On the Wharf - In the Boat) Flower Festival 2023 will be held at Binh Dong Wharf and Nguyen Van Cua street from January 6-21, or 5th-30th of the 12th lunar month.
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Tourists enjoy a bike tour exploring Hanoi’s Old Quarter. (Photo hanoimoi.com.vn) 
