The tourism industry flourishes

​Dong Nai tourism industry is on the way of recovery and growing again with diverse tourism activities and products, the tourism market develops to catch up with new tourism trends.

Guests participate in water games at Tre Viet Eco-Tourism Village on the day of 2 May

High-class picnic travel

In addition to the traditional tourism business, such as: tour-based tourism, guests having fun at tourist sites and attractions... many people are choosing a new way of traveling in the direction of small groups, experience the natural space, villages through the form of traveling of camping, glamping (high-class camping traveling), agricultural and rural traveling, etc. Typically, at a number of tourist attractions such as camping, glamping, and fruit gardens in the province during the King Hung death Anniversary on the last days of April 30 and May 1, the number of visitor to visit and stayed rapidly increased during the holidays. Camping and glamping places have been always full of guests.

Mr. Pham Dinh Nguyen, manager of the Tropical Eglamping high class camping tourist site (Tropical Eglamping, La Nga commune, Dinh Quan district) said that during 5 holidays, 20 tents at the Tropical area were always full of guests. Visitors came to the resort this year increased more than 2022. Among the staying guests, the number of visitors coming from Ho Chi Minh City accounted for 80%, foreign guests was about 10%. According to Mr. Nguyen, due to the location of the tourist destination located on the hillside, under the cashew trees and all overlooking Tri An lake, the natural scenery is very beautiful. Besides, taking advantage of the pure and cool natural space, in the evening, the tourist site organizes outdoor BBQs and light music programs, creating a completely relaxing space for visitors, so it attracts more and more tourists booking rooms at Tropical Eglamping.

Also attracting tourists with the scenery of countryside, rice fields, peaceful lotus ponds, Phu Dien Glamping is also a destination full of guests staying on holidays. Mr. Than Van Linh, owner of Phu Dien Glamping tourist destination said that Phu Dien was a countryside that still retained the cultural values of a rural village with rice fields, lotus ponds mixed with undulating rocky mountains in the field creating a unique and impressive countryside scene. Currently, Phu Dien countryside was in the most beautiful season with blooming lotus flowers and many fields of yellow rice, so guests had many things to enjoy. Sharing about the trend of glamping tourism development, Mr. Linh said that tourists who chose these models were often willing to spend big money to get the best services in a space closed to nature. Therefore, the better any glamping business places with good service quality, the better it would attract customers because the trend of glamping traveling was currently very hot in the market today.

Diversities of fun activities at tourist sites and attractions

Mr. Pham Chau An, Deputy General Director of Suoi Mo Tourist Site said that although it was not as good as in the years before the Covid-19 epidemic, the growth of tourists during the past holiday was within the expectation of the tourist site. In order to increase the diversity and attract tourists, especially in preparation for the peak summer tourist season, Suoi Mo was creating more artificial waves on an artificial shore of yellow sand to serve tourists.

In addition to Suoi Mo, a number of tourist sites had a large number of visitors, such as: Buu Long Tourist site (Bien Hoa City) welcomed about 11,000 guests, Bo Cap Vang Tourist site, Tre Viet Tourist Village (NhonTrach district) welcomed from 4,000 to over 5,000 guests… were also popular destinations for tourists.

According to statistics of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, during the holiday this year, Dong Nai welcomed about 100,000 tourists to visit, entertain and stay at tourist sites and attractions in the province, in which there were about 1.5 thousand international visitors, increased 15% compared to the same holidays in 2022. Tourism revenue was about 60 billion VND.

Mr. Nguyen Van Hau, Deputy Head of the Division of Culture, Sports and Tourism Management (Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism) said that tourism was taking a new direction, therefore, businesses operating in the field of tourism needed to speed up and invested more items to maintain operations to attract tourists to visit. According to Mr. Hau, recently, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism had regularly monitored tourism activities and promptly sended documents to tourism businesses to propose measures to ensure the safety for tourists while visiting and having fun at tourist sites and attractions in the province, such as: rescue work for recreational activities in the water, inspection of adventure game equipment, security and order works, environmental hygiene, food safety, etc.​