Ho Chi Minh City night tourism, especially during the April 30th holiday, recorded great attraction with many diverse products. Among them, many dinner tours combined with fireworks viewing, sunset viewing or afternoon tea enjoyment on the river are deployed on restaurant boats and quickly are fully booked.
Representatives of Dong Duong Sailing Co., Ltd. said that the demand of domestic tourists, especially people in Ho Chi Minh City, for river cruises combined with cuisine has increased sharply during the holidays. Dinner tours on yachts throughout the holidays are all fully booked.
Real-world records show that many people choose to experience travel right in the city during the holidays.
Ms. Gia Anh (Binh Tan ward) said: "Staying in Ho Chi Minh City during the holidays still has many interesting experiences, both avoiding crowds and being able to enjoy the city's nighttime atmosphere with tourism services such as double-decker buses and river buses".
Not only river tours, many typical nightlife tourism products of the city are also being renewed. Programs such as "Saigon Night Showing Colors" continue to be upgraded in content, while tours serving international visitors such as Retro Rides Saigon by Night, Cho Lon Night Tour, City Tour HCMC maintain their appeal thanks to improved service quality.
At the Cu Chi Tunnels historical relic site, many experiential activities are organized during the holiday, in which the "War Zone Moon" night tour is of interest to many people and tourists. This is a journey to explore history in the nighttime space, where stories about the resistance period are recreated under the moonlight, bringing tourists a lively and emotional experience.
In addition, night street spaces such as Nguyen Hue pedestrian street or food streets are always bustling, becoming familiar rendezvous points for people and tourists. Notably, Cho Lon night street after 4 months of piloting has officially been launched, opening up a new nighttime cultural - culinary - tourist space, operating from 6 pm to 0 am daily.
In the accommodation sector, tourist accommodation establishments, especially the 3-5 star segment, have implemented many attractive incentive programs, focusing on the domestic market with popular discounts of 20 - 50%.
The trend of competition shifted from room rates to "value-added combo" packages such as accommodation combined with cuisine, spa, health care. At the same time, exploiting rooftop space to serve the fireworks viewing experience.
Mr. Pham Huy Binh - Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism said that to develop the night economy, first of all, it is necessary to promote daytime activities well, thereby forming the nighttime experience needs of tourists.
Ho Chi Minh City is gradually raising the level of tourism products such as MICE tourism, medical tourism, cultural tourism, culinary tourism... to meet the increasing needs of tourists. The city currently has many unique products and continues to develop further.
Regarding the work of serving the April 30th holiday this year, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism identified this as a key task, synchronously implementing management, inspection, and supervision solutions for business activities; requiring public price listing, not allowing unreasonable price increases to occur.
