This year's 4-day National Day holiday on September 2nd is also the end of the summer tourist season, promising to attract a large number of tourists to sightseeing and resort destinations.
In the Southern region, many localities and tourism and service businesses are actively preparing conditions, upgrading products, increasing human resources, and ensuring a civilized and friendly tourism environment to serve tourists.
Impressive experience
Representatives of the tourism industry in many southern localities predict that during this year's National Day holiday in the southern provinces and cities, the number of tourists will increase, but it will not be "explosive" because many tourists have chosen to go to Hanoi to watch the parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of National Day on September 2, while some tourists choose destinations in the central coastal localities or travel abroad.
Localities have planned to organize many elaborate cultural and artistic activities, creating a joyful and meaningful atmosphere to celebrate the Great Festival. Tourist areas and sites, historical and cultural relics are ready to welcome and serve people and visitors.
According to the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City, there are many cultural, artistic and exhibition activities throughout the city to serve the people and tourists. Among them, there is a special art program - a live television bridge taking place on the evening of September 2 at Nguyen Hue Walking Street (Saigon Ward), New City Central Park ( Binh Duong Ward), Thuy Van Square (Vung Tau Ward).
Also on the evening of September 2, the City organized fireworks displays to celebrate National Day at many locations, creating a jubilant and exciting atmosphere throughout the city.
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa said that the city has a variety of attractive tourist destinations and experiences. After the administrative arrangement and merger with Binh Duong and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces (old), Ho Chi Minh City's tourism space has been expanded, with many new things, stretching from central wards such as Saigon, Ben Thanh, Cho Lon to areas concentrating on sea and island tourism products in Vung Tau ward, Long Son, Ho Tram, Thanh An communes, Con Dao special zone or tourism products of craft villages, fruit trees, and craft villages in Tan Uyen, Lai Thieu, Chanh Hiep wards...
In Ho Chi Minh City, there are currently over 3,200 tourist accommodation establishments, many of which are rated from 1 to 5 stars, ensuring service for a large number of tourists, including MICE groups (tourism combined with events and conferences).
Can Tho - the central city of the Mekong Delta also has many unique activities and experiences to serve people and tourists on the occasion of National Day September 2.
The city will organize a special art program and broadcast live at 3 locations: Tay Do Park (Hung Phu Ward), Xa No Park (Vi Tan Ward) and Urban Area 5A (Phu Loi Ward) along with a brilliant fireworks display to celebrate National Day.
A representative of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Can Tho City said that during the 2024 National Day holiday, the room occupancy rate at many accommodation establishments in the area reached 75-90%. During this year's National Day holiday, with a new Can Tho tourism space, including the old Soc Trang and Hau Giang areas, more diverse experiential destinations, many attractive Can Tho tours and routes from eco-tourism, gardens, islands, rivers to historical, cultural, spiritual relics..., Can Tho tourism is expected to continue to be chosen by many tourists.
In the southernmost region of the country, Ca Mau province is a locality with many attractive cultural, historical and community eco-tourism destinations, ready to serve visitors.
Ms. Ngo Huynh Trang, Director of Ca Mau ECO Ecotourism Area in Tran Van Thoi Commune, said that when coming to the tourist area, visitors can visit the airy space, with the scent of cajuput flowers, learn about the space recreating the Vo Doi forest village of the people during the resistance war, bringing many interesting experiences. The tourist area also has the experience activity "A day as a U Minh Ha person," guiding visitors to explore the culture and lifestyle of the people, go picking vegetables, catching fish, and preparing some specialties of farmers in the U Minh Ha forest area. Visitors can stay overnight, by the light of oil lamps, enjoy the cool, peaceful air, listen to the sweet, lingering melodies of traditional music...
Civilized, safe and friendly tourism environment
Along with organizing many cultural and artistic activities, exploiting attractive tourism products, localities are also ready with service plans, training, updating and improving skills for human resources, contributing to bringing tourists the best and most perfect feelings about the destination.
Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, Ms. Bui Thi Ngoc Hieu informed that with the desire to improve service quality, bring better and better experiences to tourists, leave a good impression about service quality, safe and civilized tourism environment, in August, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism organized a training course on fire prevention, fire fighting and ensuring food safety for 350 representatives of tourist accommodation establishments, service establishments that meet standards for serving tourists, restaurants and eateries listed in the Michelin Guide (a guide that provides addresses of delicious restaurants for food lovers).
Trainees were updated with a lot of information related to new regulations on food safety and hygiene, fire prevention and fighting, and were also instructed on principles of safe food processing, measures to prevent and handle food poisoning at the facility, and skills in management and control of fire prevention and fighting at the facility.
According to Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ca Mau province Nguyen Quoc Thanh, in order to prepare conditions to serve people and tourists on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day September 2, the provincial functional units have reminded tourism service businesses to strengthen security and safety, improve service quality, and ensure a civilized, safe and friendly tourism environment.
The authorities especially note that establishments must strictly comply with regulations on security and safety, proactively develop specific plans and measures to ensure absolute safety for tourists at the establishment, especially for tourism products that can affect the lives and health of tourists.
Facilities and units absolutely do not use unregistered, uninspected, and unsafe vehicles to serve tourists.
Service businesses must enhance their responsibility in selecting means and service personnel; prevent solicitation, price gouging, and unreasonable price increases of goods and services; arrange enough staff to guide and support tourists, promptly handle arising situations and feedback from tourists, and ensure satisfaction for tourists.
Along with that, on this occasion, sectors and localities in the province promote propaganda and spread information about community ecotourism products, cultural tourism, visiting relics associated with cultural tours, gratitude tourism, journey to the source, introducing to tourists the image of Ca Mau tourism rich in identity, attractive and safe./.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/ngoai-ha-noi-du-khach-mien-nam-chon-di-dau-dip-le-29-post1057394.vnp
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