2023 Ho Chi Minh Tourism Fest features low-cost tours, travel vouchers
The four-day festival features 120 booths with vendors touting promotional tourism programs and products to both domestic and foreign visitors. The aim of the festival is to boost tourism connectivity and contribute to the country’s economic growth, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism. Among the promotional packages on sale at the fest are domestic tours offered by local travel firm Saigontourist, which are being offered at discounts of up to 30 percent. Aside from its domestic tours, Saigontourist is also offering international tours at steep discounts. Other promotions at the festival include discounts on one-day city tours, double-decker bus tours, water puppet tour tickets, and trips to popular tourism destinations across the country. Vietravel, another local tour operator, is using the festival to roll out a four-day promotional program featuring discounts of up VND12 million (US$514.1). Nguyen Nguyet Van Khanh, marketing director of Vietravel, said that...