Many Mega Promotional Tours for National Day Holidays

 

As this National Day (September 2) falls on weekend, tourists will have more time for their short trips with their families. Although the new school year has just begun, many families still bring their kids with them, especially if they were not given a summertime vacation.

 

According to Vietravel, tourists prefer domestic tours and their destinations are places of interests in the north, the central region, coastal areas, and islands. Much-discounted tours are soon fully reserved.

 

This year, Saigontourist launched its first-ever river tours in addition to traditional overland and air travel packages. Discovering the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City on canoe and boat during the National Day holidays is a brand-new experience when other sightseeing places are familiar. During the tour, travellers will discover the world-renowned wartime Cu Chi Tunnel, Long Phuoc Garden, taste southern food specialities in Binh Quoi tourism village and reach Can Gio, Long An province (one day). The tour starts on August 31, September 1 and 2 at a beginning charge from VND294,000 to VND2.23 million each.

 

BenThanh Tourist also introduced domestic tours to many favourite destinations like Vinh Long - My Tho, Tien Giang - Ben Tre, Binh Chau and Can Gio at the price of less than VND1 million. The programme, ranging from two to four days, departs from Phan Thiet, Ninh Chu, Da Lat and Nha Trang. Inter-route tours in central and northern regions, departing from August 31 to September 2, 2013, also have prices ranging from less than VND1 million to VND10 million each.

 

For visitors loving the beauty of the sea, tours to Phu Quoc, Con Dao, Phan Thiet and Nha Trang are the right choices. Fidituour launched a series of attractive domestic tours like tour to Con Dao Island to discover Shark Nose Cape, White Rock Beach and Da Nhat Beach, visit Con Dao Museum, Phu Son and Phu Hai historic relics, and “Tiger Cage” Jail or tour to Phan Thiet - Mui Ne to feel the sense of sliding the sand from the top of hills, and visit Duc Thanh School - the first school President Ho Chi Minh taught, or to Nha Trang to wander along dreamlike romantic streets shaded by purple crape myrtle flowers and relax at beautiful beaches filled with year-round sunlight and decorated by pleasantly pure air and completely clear water compared to the Mediterranean.

 

With its demand stimulus policy, Saigontourist Travel Company pledges not to increase tour prices during this occasion. It even introduced many economy tours like from Ho Chi Minh City to Phu Quoc (3 days, from only VND5.39 million), to Con Dao (3 days, from VND6.24 million), Hanoi, Ninh Binh and Halong (7 days, VND11.11 million), Danang (4 days, from VND7.5 million), Tuy Hoa - Quy Nhon (4 days, from VND5.95 million), Da Lat (4 days, from VND2.635 million). Saigontourist also introduced outbound tours with prices better than last year, like to Japan (6 days, only VND38.98 million, a discount of more than VND10 million).

 

BenThanh Tourist is applying many promotion programmes for outbound travel packages on this occasion. For example, the 4-day Singapore tour, departing August 31, costs only VND13.69 million, included free tickets to water music show, Song of the Sea. The 5-day Thailand tour to Bangkok and Pattaya, setting out on August 29 and September 2, costs from VND9.95 million, depending star-ranked hotels, included free buffet tickets at 88-storey Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the highest hotel in Southeast Asia. Tour members can enjoy dinner buffets with excellent international cuisine and view the glorious splendour of Bangkok at night from the 74^th - 76^th stories of the hotel. All outbound tourists are presented international travel insurances, travel bags, passport holders, and other incentives.

 

Fiditour introduced a cluster of domestic tours like Blue Sea - Ocean - Islands; Legendary Central Highlands; Truong Son Trail with Three Heritages; and Hanoi - Thousand Years of Civilization. These packages are 30 percent discounted. The Phu Quoc tour was discounted VND1.579 million to VND5.195 million each. The Con Dao tour was slashed VND300,000 to VND6.465 million. The Phan Thiet tour was quoted at VND2,995. All these tours will depart on August 31. The 4-day, 3-night Nha Trang tour was quoted VND4.07 million. The 3-day, 2-night Da Lat tour was quoted VND2.995 million, setting out on August 31. The 5-day, 4-night Paradise Cave - Hue - La Vang - Da Nang - Hoi An - Ba Na tour, departing on August 29, was discounted VND900,000 to VND8.295 million . The 4-day, 3-night Hanoi - Ninh Binh - Ha Long - Yen Tu tour, departing on August 31, was cut VND3.85 million to VND, 7.5 million. The 4-day, 3-night Hanoi - Lao Cai - Sapa route, departing on August 31, was discounted VND3.45 million to VND7.695 million. Besides, when buying National Day tours, tourists also have the chance to win gifts in cash and in kind worth of VND2 billion. The promotion programme called “Summer travel - Win big with Fiditour” is set to end on September 2.

 

In September 2013 Golden Tour & Convention will apply a promotion programme for tours to Malaysia, featuring an individual charge of nearly VND8 million for a four-day discovery and shopping in Kuala Lumpur; visit to new Putrajaya City with modern Islamic architectures by the side of romantic rivers; relaxation in pleasant, cool Genting upland and other modern, attractive entertainment centres. The F1 Singapore Grand Prix 2013 tour package, departing on September 20 and September 21 from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, will provide free entry tickets for arts performance programmes and sightseeing in Singapore. Besides, group travelling will be also added incentives. Accordingly, a group of 4-7 travellers will be discounted VND500,000 each while a group of more than eight people will be reduced VND800,000 each. If customers buy F1 tickets in group with three members or more, they will have a ticket discount of 30 percent (SGD68-298, depending on location and date). Customers can reserve at www.tourF1.com.

 

A representative of Golden Tours & Convention recommended tourists that many travel companies pledge to give high reimbursements for tourists if they do not depart on schedule but the “date of departure” is the date companies receive tourists, not the date of announcement. Besides, late August is the peak time because parents have already completed arranging their children’s new school year and their families usually start travelling this time. Hence, tourists are advised to have well-planned preparation for their successful journeys.