Participating in the Ho Chi Minh City International Tourism Expo 2024, many businesses offered attractive tours, flight tickets, hotels, and travel services with enticing discounts, drawing a large number of domestic and international buyers.

The Ho Chi Minh City International Tourism Expo 2024 (ITE HCMC 2024) organized a series of engaging and diverse professional activities, which received high praise from both domestic and international delegates. The expo's success helped promote Vietnam's image and culture to international friends.

This year, ITE HCMC recorded impressive growth with nearly 480 exhibitors. Domestic booths accounted for 77%, while foreign booths made up 23%. Notably, many international exhibitors had large, well-invested booths, reflecting their interest and high regard for the Vietnamese tourism market.

One of the standout features of ITE HCMC 2024 was "The Travel Fun Fair Day", featuring a series of tourism shopping promotion programs from travel companies, restaurants, hotels, and airlines. Customers had the opportunity to purchase tours and book services at the most competitive prices, offering significant discounts for the year.

Saigontourist implemented attractive discounts for autumn departure tours, with discounts up to 10 million VND for international tours, fixed-price tours starting from 7.99 million VND, and 30% off domestic flight tours, along with hotel room packages at 4-5 star hotels starting from 939,000 VND.

BenThanh Tourist introduced 35 domestic and international tour routes sold at discounted prices, with reductions ranging from 500,000 VND to 5 million VND compared to the original price. Among these, tours to the USA and Egypt are discounted by 5 million VND, while European tours see reductions of 2 to 4.9 million VND. Tours to Northeast Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) and Dubai are reduced by 1 to 2 million VND.

Vietnam Airlines offered many attractive promotions, including opportunities to purchase discount gift cards and receive promotion codes on various flight routes. Notably, the Vietnam Airlines booth attracted a large number of visitors with engaging activities and appealing giveaways, such as mini-games and lucky draws.

Vietravel also provided many competitively priced products for the autumn season, available for purchase only during the three days of the Expo. The company offered discounts on tours to Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam, and Phu Quoc. In particular, the caravan tour to the USA is now priced at nearly 120 million VND, a reduction of 10 million VND from the original price.

Not only domestic enterprises, but the participation of many foreign tourism promotion agencies from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, etc., brought updated information and new tour routes to visitors. Notably, the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) presented various cultural experience activities at ITE HCMC 2024, while attendees had the opportunity for direct consultations from local tourism promotion agencies such as Jeju, Incheon, and Haeundae District (Busan). The Thai booth focused on showcasing road tourism destinations connecting ASEAN Connectivity and key destinations in Thailand, such as Phuket, Bangkok, and Chiang Mai, particularly Ko Mak—the first low-carbon destination in Thailand.