Tours to Celebrate New Year Holidays

3:49:35 PM | 12/21/2009

Many travel companies have launched tours to welcome the coming Solar and Lunar New Year Holidays 2010. Vietnamese young people tend to join journeys on the occasion of Solar New Year and traditional Lunar Tet holiday.
Tourism products to mark the coming Solar and Lunar New Year holidays will be launched from Christmas festival. Travel companies are racing with one another by launching attractive tours. The most prominent should be tours to the U.S. and the Europe. Hustled and bustled atmosphere of the Christmas Day and Solar New Year festival will overwhelm all streets as this is global tourism season. And it’s high time for us to make plans for this special occasion.
 
Massive attractive outbound tours
Saigontourist will launch over 30 attractive outbound tours through February, 2010 to welcome Christmas Day, Solar and Lunar New Year holidays. All the tours will depart from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
 
Saigontourist has been consecutively organized eight-day Ho Chi Minh City-U.S. tours to cerebrate the holidays together with overseas Vietnamese in the U.S. Meanwhile, the Italy-Switzerland-France, Italy-Spain-France and Italy-Germany-the Netherlands-Belgium-France tours will bring tourists special chances to take pleasure in European spring 2010 and celebrate the national Lunar New Year.
 
Annually, Vietnamese community in the U.S. often organizes Tet festival during the market-day in Santa Clara County in San Jose State and flower market along the Bolsa Road in California State, where massive special goods and specialities including apricot, peach and orchids blossom as well as Chung cake, Tet cake (cylindric glutinous rice cake), jam and salted palanquin will be sold. In Little Saigon area, overseas Vietnamese often open trade fairs, music shows, photo exhibitions and lion dances to celebrate the Lunar Tet holiday.
 
In Italy, Venice masquerade will be organized jubilantly and impressively for two weeks to celebrate warm spring. People hurry to join the event all overall the country with colourful, diversified and charming masks.
 
Instead of enjoying Chung cake, salted onion and traditional red parallel sentences, may people decide to travel on the occasion of Lunar New Year holiday for pleasure and refresh. Thus, FIDITOUR launched a series of tours entitled “Welcome New Year all over the world” to bring tourists to Asia, Europe, America and Australia. Australia has become people’s favourite in this tourism season. Under this programme, FIDITOUR plans to depart on December 25, 2009 for Melbourne. With a tour on Tramway around the city, tourists will have a chance to take pleasure in the beauty and daily life there as well as will be sated with shopping in China Town. An attractive beauty spot that tourist cannot overlook is the wild natural reserve where is famous for penguin park on the Philip island. Especially, in the New Year’s Eve, you will have a chance to join the hustled and bustled atmosphere by Australian people to welcome the time of transitioning from the old year to the New Year and contemplate brilliant fireworks.
 
Saigontourist has also planned an eight-day Brisbane - Gold Coast - Sydney tour that costs VND50 million and will bring tourists to discover the land of kangaroos. Gold Coast is one of the most famous tourist city in the world with over 32 km of yellow sand seaside, healthy climate all year long, which is an ideal destination for swimming in the sea, convalescence, and sight-seeing. Coming there, tourists will be deep into shopping paradises with massive shops along Surfers Paradise Street, and will be sated with pleasure in recreation areas of Sea World, Movie World, and Snow Centre as well as experience eventful time when joining catching crabs under the Australian style.
 
A traditional and attractive destination is China, particularly on the occasion of Lunar Tet holiday. Thus, Saigontourist has organized various tours to Beijing, Sichuan and Shanhai in mid-January. Beijing will be decorated with flower streets and will be hustled and bustled with traditional festivals of lantern and Huguang events.
If you want to have a new experience in the New Year holiday, you should join Brunei – Kotakinabalu tour. It would be great pleasure to welcome a new day on Malaysia’s beautiful island of Kota Kinabalu, discover attractive beauty spots in the oil-rich kingdom of Brunei and do sightseeing of the Moslem cathedral, which is one of the most worthy of its kind in the world, and visit Kampung Ayer village that was founded for 600 years and spotted by stilt houses on water surface.
 
Inbound tours
Travel companies have also paid due attention to organization of inbound tours with priority given to young people who prefer an adventure via an early year tour. Tours entitled “Welcome New Year 2010” this year are very diversified with flexible departure timetable, which can satisfy various tourists’ demand.
 
Meanwhile, FIDITOUR has organized a tour entitled “Buy outbound tours-deduction everyday”, which facilitate tourists to enjoy Christmas Day and New Year Holiday 2010 at preferential prices. Applications should be sent to the organization board from November 18 to December 18, 2009 to benefit from a deduction of VND5,000 per day.
 
Other attractive tour programmes for seaside and islands, central highlands, south-western region or inter-regional tours have been organized to welcome the coming new year including a three-day, two-night tour to Phu Quoc island, a three-day, two-night tour to Con Dao island, a four-day, three-night tour to Nha Trang-Vinpearl Land by car, a three-day, two-night tour to Binh Chau-Long Hai, and a five-day, four-night tour to Danang-Hanoi-Hue-Phong Nha.

Minh Chau