Two foreign tourists look at their camera while taking a tour of the eighth HCMC Tourism Day 2012 that opened on Thursday at the September 23 Park in District 1. This event attracts 80 government agencies and local companies from 25 cities and provinces, as well as foreign organizations including the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). The organizing committee expects the event will attract about 800,000 visitors.

HCMC – City-based tour operators will launch summer promotions on HCMC Tourism Day that opened on Thursday at the September 23 Park in District 1.

Featuring 150 stalls, the biggest annual event for the domestic tourism segment will introduce to visitors a variety of promotion programs such as tour discounts, lucky draws, gift vouchers and coupons.

Lien Bang Travel will offer a VND200,000 discount for any visitor booking domestic tours at the event, whilst cutting VND200,000-500,000 for outbound tours. It will also organize game shows with tour coupons and gift vouchers up for grabs.

The travel agency will hold a lucky draw program with prizes including travel bags, a two-day tour to Phan Thiet, three-day tour to Phu Quoc Island and six-day tour to Thailand.

Du Lich Viet Co will give discounts of 10-30% for tourists making direct bookings at the event. For instance, a six-day and five-night outbound tour to Thailand will be sold at VND6.763 million while the price of a domestic tour taking in Cao Bang-Bac Can-Lang Son for five days and five nights will be cut by VND1.1 million to VND8.99 million.

Saigontourist will unveil more than 300 summer tours. The firm will give membership cards to the first 500 visitors joining its stall at the event and offer gift vouchers and discounts of between 19% and 38% for several domestic tours.

There is on offer a VND2 million discount for domestic tours to northern destinations from Vietravel.

For the central region, the tour operator will offer a discount of VND2.2 million on the five-day tour to Danang-Lang Co Beach-Paradise Cave-Ba Na Hill-Phong Nha National Park, which is now priced at VND7.09 million, and the four-day tour to Danang-Ba Na- Lang Co-Hue City-Phong Nha is now VND6.29 million.

Vietravel said it will offer huge discounts of 40-45% on tour prices next month.

The festival will wrap up on Sunday.

The first 20 couples (Vietnamese or expats living in Viet Nam) who register for the promotion with Tourism Malaysia or Travellive Magazine before June 15, 2012, will qualify for a photo shoot at major Kuala Lumpur attractions for US$800 per person – half the normal price.

The five-day package includes a stay at the five-star Golden Palm Tree resort.

When the promotion ends, the romantic tour package will be available for $1,500-2,000 at travel firms Vietravel, Vietran Tour and Umove Travel.-VNS

The Russian delegation came to have a final check on tourism services in Danang City and Hoi An before bringing Russian tourists by air to central Vietnam.

The first flight scheduled for May 12 will bring 300 Russian tourists to Danang, to be followed by one flight each day until September.

The Danang City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said the city welcomed 850,000 visitors in the first four months of this year (up by 13 percent against the same period in 2011), of whom 25 percent were foreign tourists coming mainly from Japan and the Republic of Korea.

This is major focus of the project, “Promoting World Heritage sites in Vietnam ’s Central Region” launched on May 8 in Hoi An, in Quang Nam province.

The project, funded by Asiana Airlines through the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU) and UNESCO Hanoi office, aims to connect three World Heritage sites in the region, including Hue Monuments Complex in Hue city, Hoi An ancient town and My Son sanctuary in Quang Nam province.

In the first year of implementing the project, key activities will focus on Hoi An heritage site, including producing flyers, brochures and handbooks in English and Korean to provide tourists with information about various places of interest, such as typical handicraft villages, and the traditional cultures of the destinations.

Asiana Airlines will also fund solar energy lighting systems at all three sites, with the system in Hoi An scheduled to be put into operation this year.

At the launching ceremony, Tran Minh Ca, Vice Chairman of Quang Nam Provincial People’s Committee, spoke highly of the support from Asiana Airlines, which launched a new route in December, 2011 linking the RoK capital, Seoul with Da Nang . He expressed his belief that thanks to the Asiana promotion, the world heritage site in the central region will be broadly presented to international tourists.

Ca said that with Hoi An ancient town, My Son Sanctuary and Cham Islands Biosphere Reserve, the province has received a lot of cooperation and support from international agencies, organisations and individuals on heritage site conservation and sustainable tourism development.-VNA

Gastronomic services Barbecue buffets at Grand Café

Grand Café serves a barbecue buffet every day, from 6-10:30 p.m. Typical dishes for the buffet include Australian beef, giant river shrimp, and sheep rib. Buffet ticket prices are VND890,000 (US$42.4) for adults and VND590,000, including wine, soft drink and mineral water.

During happy hours (2-5 p.m.) every day, customers are offered one free cocktail for every cocktail they order. Live music shows feature jazz on Thursdays and Saturdays and flamenco on Fridays and Sundays. Gifts are given on the occasion of the Mother’s Day, which falls on May 13 this year.

Dinner buffets at Saigon Palace Restaurant

Put into operation in mid-April, the Saigon Palace Restaurant featuring a mix of modern and classical French architectures is a place buffet lovers should not miss. Dinner buffets with Asian and European dishes are served here every day from 6-10 p.m.

It costs adults VND729,000 to take a dinner buffet, which includes wine, soft drink and mineral water. At the buffet, Mother’s Day gifts are also given to customers. The restaurant offers a 20% buffet ticket discount until June 15.

Eden Rock Bar

This bar is considered an ideal place to enjoy cocktails of various styles and games such as table tennis and darts.

The bar gives a 20% discount until May 31.

Room service

Grand Hotel Saigon cuts a 10-20% rate for its Deluxe Single-Luxury Wing rooms from May until July 31. The room rate is from VND2,303,000++/night. The room charge includes breakfast, mineral water, tea, and coffee for every day, fresh fruits and wi-fi Internet.

Grand Hotel Saigon:

8 Dong Khoi St., Dist. 1, HCMC. Tel: 08. 35218483, email: banquetsales@grandhotel.vn.

The villa’s rate includes breakfast, welcome drink upon arrival, and among others. 50 private pool villas of the resort offer space and privacy along with an uncompromised standard of luxury. Villas are ocean view or ocean front, single-level and duplex offering a choice of one, three and four bedrooms.

Six Senses Con Dao stretches along 1.6 km of sandy beach and is surrounded by dramatic mountain landscapes and stunning turquoise waters.

The central provincial people’s committee of Quang Nam, the UNESCO office in Ha Noi and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO aim to promote tourism among local communities and draw attention to the World Heritage Sites in the country’s central provinces.

“It’s a significant project as it helps raise awareness of the world heritage sites of Hoi An town, My Son sanctuary, a biophere reserve (Cham Island) and the complex of Hue Monuments,” said vice chairman of the Quang Nam People’s Committee Tran Minh Ca.

“The project will help introduce the charming landscapes and destinations of the central provinces to the world,” he said.

The project, which is sponsored by South Korean Asiana Airlines, will communicate tourism information through international flights and direct air routes between Da Nang and Incheon in South Korea.

“We are honoured to join hands in preserving and promoting the UNESCO-recognised world heritage at Hoi An. We hope to boost tourism in the central provinces through our international flights,” said Asiana Airlines president Yoon Young-doo.

He said the launching ceremony was a special event to mark the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and South Korea.

The project would also provide for the installation of solar-powered public lighting systems in Hoi An.

Last December, Asiana Airlines debuted its direct route between Seoul and Da Nang, 25km south of Hoi An, and it has since increased from two to three flights weekly.

According to last year’s statistics, Quang Nam Province hosted 505,435 tourists, 4,564 of which were from South Korea. — VNS

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However, local Vienam travel agencies say that this year, despite offers of so many promotional programmes, the numbers of tourists have not increased, causing much anxiety in the travel industry.

Companies of Vietnam tour offer low-budget tours

Many people have put a lid on spending for the last two years, due to the economic downturn. Therefore many travel agencies have to design economy and low-budget tours to attract clients.

Travel firms have reported a sharp decline in the numbers of travellers. Though there are still many travellers booking tours for the April 30 holiday, the numbers are way below expectations. Many clients have enquired about the cost of tours but few have made bookings.

The numbers of tourists registering for tours for summer are quite modest, even though summer is a high tourist season. Saigontourist Travel Service Company is organising 300 domestic and international tours and expects to serve 16,000 travellers, an increase of 10-15 per cent over the same period last year.

This year, most visitors registered for short distance tours to the Central Highland region, Mekong Delta region, Dang Nang, Nha Trang, Phan Thiet and Buon Ma Thuot cities and Phu Quoc Island.

Many travel agencies have not increased tour prices, except for Nha Trang and Dalat City by 10 per cent.

A representative of Viet Travel said that their company ties up with hotels and restaurants to offer tour prices that are attractive and competitive. The company is offering a discount of VND2 million on its northern tours, VND600,000 to VND1 million on central region tours and VND500,000 on Phu Quoc and Nha Trang tours.

Slump in inbound tours

Pham Duc Hoa, deputy head of domestic tourism in Saigontourist, said that the company’s turnover in the first quarter of the year grew well, but its turnover is decreasing since beginning of April. People tend to travel by themselves or register through Free-Easy tour service, which operates within your tight budget, Hoa added.

Hoa said the tendency of cutting down spending can be seen clearly in the tourism sector. Most travellers from Ho Chi Minh City choose two to three day tours to Phan Thiet, Ninh Chu and Vung Tau to save money.

In previous summers, his travel firm received many orders from companies and institutions who wanted to take long tours to Hue City or Hanoi. But now many of the loyal clients have decided not to travel this year, or have chosen short tours to Phan Thiet or Vung Tau.

Meanwhile, many international tours are fully booked. Fiditour has sold 60 per cent of its international tour quota. Tours to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China that departed on April 27 were full.

One director of a travel firm believes that in general, the number of travellers this summer have not decreased as sharply as people think, but have chosen outbound tours instead of domestic tours.

People tend to travel abroad because outbound tours are getting cheaper.

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