This year, the New Year holiday lasts 3 days due to the pillow on the weekend (from December 30, 2023 to January 1, 2024), so families have many options for themselves to rest. However, the trend is that people choose to vacation nearby, or travel to the West, Northeast, or travel by road rather than choosing to travel by air.
Twin mountains in Quan Ba, Ha Giang. Photo: T.Tu
Sharing with Dan Viet, Mr. Bui Thanh Tu – Marketing Director of BestPriceTravel travel company said: “Up to now, the number of guests booking tours is nearly 3,000 guests. Among them, guests booking domestic tours, mainly Mainly Ninh Binh, Ha Long (Quang Ninh), Sapa (Lao Cai) and especially Ha Giang.
With the 3-day, 2-night tour of Ha Giang, visitors can explore and immerse themselves in the majestic natural scenery, admire the romantic colorful flower fields, and have fun at the new highland markets. , this is also the reason why the number of bookings increased quite a lot compared to last year. As for outbound tours, accounting for up to 60% in Asian countries such as Thailand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan… and especially in Thailand, Korea and Taiwan, the number of tourists buying tours increased from 110 % – 150% compared to the same period in 2022″.
Children in Ha Giang do tourism. According to Mr. Bui Thanh Tu, with domestic tours, traveling near New Year 2024, Ha Giang tour is one of the most popular tours. Photo: T.Tu
A representative of Viet Tourism Media Joint Stock Company shared with the press that the company is fully booked on all tour routes during the New Year and up to now, staff, operations and other departments have gathered. Prepare services.
According to this representative, this year Southern tourists need to travel close by, traveling by road and waterway to nearby locations such as Phu Quoc, Da Lat, Can Tho… rather than choosing to vacation to far away destinations. , must travel by air, especially when traveling to the North, the proportion is not high.
TSTtourist takes Vietnamese tourists abroad. Photo: TST
Mr. Nguyen Minh Man – Director of Communications – Marketing of TSTtourist Company shared with Dan Viet: “The proportion of visitors participating in the New Year tour this year is not high due to the short holiday. Tourists mainly focus on the Lunar New Year tour. The number of visitors during this year’s Lunar New Year is estimated to reach 70% compared to 2019, an increase of 20% compared to the same period in 2022.
Currently, the number of tours deployed for New Year and Lunar New Year is nearly 100 tours, including enough domestic and foreign tours. Domestic tourists mostly choose the East – Northwest highland route; Central region tour. However, in terms of demand ratio, about 60% of tourists focus on foreign tours. Among them, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Australia, Europe, and America are the main ones.
TSTtourist’s tour to Australia with many new features. Photo: TST
According to Mr. Nguyen Minh Man, in order to meet the diverse needs of tourists and at the same time create novelty, the company also built a few domestic and foreign tours, including a tour to Australia in the fall to watch the falling yellow leaves. On domestic tours, tourists discover beautiful, attractive destinations, famous landscapes, bearing cultural, historical, and cultural values throughout the length of Vietnam.
New Year tourism 2024: Domestic flight tours are sluggish
Many other travel businesses are no exception to the rule, the domestic tourism market is quite quiet because of the lack of customers, even some travel businesses only have less than 10 customers buying tours during the 2024 New Year holiday.
Analyzing the reasons why domestic tours with far destinations and having to travel by air become stagnant and tours abroad account for a higher proportion, in addition to this year’s economic difficulties and economic recession. Globally, there is still a constant reason why airfare prices increase, which leads to many families choosing to travel nearby, or choose locations to travel by road.
According to Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Travel Association, Phung Quang Thang, almost every year, with the New Year and Lunar New Year holidays, airfare prices also increase and decrease, changing continuously. , even increased quite high, while air tickets usually account for about 30-40% of the tour price, this forces travel companies to adjust domestic tour prices by 10-20% to attract this market. plummeted, affecting the recovery and promotion of development of the tourism industry.
Vietnamese tourists choose tours abroad more than domestic tours. Photo: TST
While the package price for tours abroad is quite reasonable, not to mention the variety of travel products built by travel agencies from departure date, tour duration, Ticket prices, locations… give domestic tourists many choices.
According to a survey on travel websites of travel agencies offering tours, domestic travel for New Year 2024 has prices ranging from 6-15 million VND/person. Specifically, the 3-day, 2-night Hanoi – Phu Quoc tour costs 7.9 million VND/person; A 5-day, 4-night Da Nang tour departing from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City costs 9.4 million VND/person; Hanoi – Buon Me Thuat tour 4 days 3 nights costs 5.4 million VND/person…
While the price of a tour to travel abroad with a tour from Hanoi – Bangkok – Pattaya for 5 days and 4 nights of the travel company BestPriceTravel is 9,960,000 VND/person; Ho Chi Minh – Bangkok – Pattaya – NongNooch Dinosaur Park tour 5 days 4 nights for 5,990,000 VND/person.
Some 4-day, 3-night Korean tours cost 13.9 million VND/person; Bali tour (Philippines) 4 days 3 nights costs 10.9 million VND/person; 5 days 4 nights tour to Thailand costs only 7.7 million VND/person; Xiangjiajie tour (China) 6 days 5 nights only costs 8.6 million VND/person…
