The domestic tourism market is heating up
In mid-Apreli, many tourists have started to learn about tours and tourist attractions to prepare for sightseeing and early summer vacation with friends, family, and colleagues.
Ms. Tuyet Mai (32 years old, Hanoi) said that on April 30, her family chose to return to their hometown for the holidays to avoid the situation of customers flocking to tourist attractions. In return, she started learning about tours at the end of May, when her children had started entering the summer vacation.
"On the internet, I see many companies offering domestic and foreign summer tours with diverse destination routes and prices. Because of summer travel, my family prioritizes going to the beach, places with playgrounds for children," Ms. Mai shared.
Talking to Lao Dong, Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu - CEO of small Village Ha Long Sea Tourism Complex - said that since the end of April, the number of visitors here has begun to increase, especially on weekends.
"There are days of the week when the complex welcomes a large group of up to 500 people. Visitors can come here to have fun, check-in, participate in outdoor activities such as team building, singing...", Mr. Hieu said. He predicted that the number of tourists will continue to increase sharply from the beginning of May.
According to Mr. Bui Thanh Tu - Marketing Director of BestPrice Travel, many tourists have wanted to ask about summer 2025 products and tours very early.
"For the domestic market, like every year, most tourists consider the sea as the top choice when thinking about summer tourism. This year, we focus on tourist destinations with entertainment areas such as Ba Na Hill (Da Nang), Sun World Ha Long (Quang Ninh), VinWonders Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa) or Phu Quoc (Kien Giang) ... for families with young children," said Mr. Tu.
Some hot tours at the end of May include Hanoi - Da Nang (4 days 3 nights) priced from 6 million VND/person, Hanoi - Nha Trang (4 days 3 nights) or Hanoi - Phu Quoc tour from 8.4 million VND/person, Ho Chi Minh City - Phu Quoc (3 days 2 nights) tour from 5.9 million VND/person... In addition, to save costs and proactively plan their schedules, many families and groups of tourists only choose to buy combos including air tickets and hotels.
The locality is busy preparing to welcome guests
Since mid-April, many localities have been actively preparing to welcome a large number of visitors to the 2025 summer tourist season, especially for coastal destinations.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa province has requested localities to continue to strengthen management of natural environment and landscape to ensure brightness - green - clean - beautiful, impressing tourists. The province also strictly manages beaches in the area, strengthens security, and supervises food and beverage service businesses, accommodation...
Major summer tourism festivals such as Hai Tien Sea Tourism Festival, Nghi Son Sea Tourism Festival and Sam Son Sea Tourism Festival 2025 took place in the second half of April. Since May, the province has continued to implement promotional and promotion activities, while supporting localities and businesses to improve service quality, ready to welcome a large number of visitors during the peak summer of 2025.
For Quang Ninh, to achieve the goal of welcoming over 10.7 million visitors this summer, the province has actively joined in with service businesses in the area, directing relevant departments, branches, sectors and localities to prepare carefully in all aspects.
This year, Quang Ninh plans to organize 170 programs, events, and tourism stimulus activities. Including 50 events held in the summer such as: Art for Climate Festival - Halong 2025, Ha Long Carnival 2025, culinary festival...
According to Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Son, Vice Chairman of Ha Long City People's Committee, this summer, the city has developed a specific plan to organize a series of events, the highlight of which is the 2025 Ha Long City Carnival Festival. In particular, the city will introduce many new attractive activities, especially high-altitude fireworks displays to serve the entertainment needs of tourists.
Currently, Quang Ninh is focusing on exploiting new tourism products to diversify products, increase experiences, extend stay time and increase spending ability of visitors.
