Travel trends choose short-term tours

Previously, the majority of Vietnamese tourists chose foreign tours. However, since the outbreak of COVID-19, these tours have been halted because most flights have ceased operations to prevent and combat COVID-19. At this time, foreign tours have not been started because the situation of COVID-19 epidemic in the world is still complicated. Therefore, the tourism industry has moved to build short tours and choose destinations in the country with good disease control.

Western tourist attractions are attracting Ho Chi Minh City during the COVID-19 epidemic season.

According to tour operators, as soon as the epidemic was well controlled, the domestic tourism market in Vietnam began to "revive". This is most evident through the holiday of April 30 and May 1, many domestic destinations have welcomed thousands of visitors, even some provinces have "broken the battle" because the number of tourists came too crowded. .

Nguyen Quoc Ky, general director of Vietravel, said that the domestic tourism market is recovering with changing tourism trends. Specifically, visitors choose to short-term tours, travel near the city with a distance of less than 300 km; often in small groups of family members or individuals. “This can be considered a big change after the disease outbreak. Because in the past, most travel companies focused on building package tours, crowded and tourists mainly chose to travel abroad, ”Mr. Nguyen Quoc Ky said.

Similarly, the travel companies Saigontourist, Fiditour, TST tourist ... have also started to deploy and launch new products right after the holidays of 30/4 and 1/5. Most of the travel companies focus on domestic tourists, short-term tours, moderate scale and family groups. In addition, some units also offer more services for personal travel, experience new places away from the city ... so visitors have more options.

Ms. Tran Bao Thu, Media Director of Fiditour Travel Company, said that since the beginning of May, the business divisions of the business have been reopened after the Air Transport and Service Center worked. normal. The unit also had customers contact for requests for advice and re-service on online channels, though not as bustling as before but also a good signal.

"The tourism products for May to July are being designed by the company to cater to family groups such as: Free & Easy tours (the combo includes the most necessary services for travel: airplanes, cars, hotels ...), open tours, short-term tours (up to 4 days) and priority for nearby destinations, convenient transportation by car, if traveling by air, it will be the flight. short ... These are also the tours that the domestic tourists choose the most after the travel companies have reopened after the holidays up to now, "said Bao Thu.

Discount tickets for attractions and tours

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Ky said that to restore the domestic market, the management agencies can exempt or reduce 3-6 months of entrance fees at historical sites, museums ... to attract tourists. In addition, Ho Chi Minh City needs to promote and quickly bring the State's support packages to enterprises; reduce VAT to 5%, loan interest rate is below 5% instead of 5.1-5.4% as currently; especially support to reduce interest rates with 6-month loans for businesses to overcome the recovery period from April to October; may exempt personal income tax this year to consumers have money to spend ...

Sights and tourism in Ho Chi Minh City need discount tickets to stimulate tourism during the epidemic season.

Meanwhile, Bui Ta Hoang Vu, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, said tourism was the first industry heavily affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, but it was also one of the first recovery industries. after the disease is well controlled. However, in order to revive the tourism industry, in addition to encouraging domestic tourism operators to exploit domestic tourists, they should also promote businesses to implement well according to the tourism criteria set of Ho Chi Minh City, both to restore the market. The school has just ensured epidemic prevention. At the same time, solve product problems, how to operate the tour during the epidemic season. Because at this time, visitors will also become more sensitive to the destination, more cost due to the crisis consequences of COVID-19.

However, Ms. Doan Thi Thanh Tra, Marketing and Communications Director of Saigontourist, said that in order to recover the domestic and international market at this time, it is necessary to connect 4 parties: destination. , travel, aviation, accommodation facilities to create deep discount tours to stimulate tourism, helping to brighten the travel picture in the future.

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