Tourism companies joining the four-day HCMC Tourism Day scheduled to kick off on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at the September 23 Park in the city downtown are offering various promotions with an aim to attract customers for the summer travel season.


Around 80 tourism service providers occupy 140 of the total 172 booths at the seventh annual event. Many companies said they would discount 5% to 10% for domestic tours plus lucky draws and gifts to customers.



Festival Travel, for example, will discount US$120 per tour to the U.S., while TST Tourist will launch lucky draws with prizes being outbound and domestic tours and gifts with a total value of VND2 billion.



Hotels and other service providers also discount room rates and tickets.



Tour operators told the Daily that the companies have been seeing the annual event in recent years as a chance to boost sales.