Nha Trang: Bumper summer tourist season

In the first 6 months of 2024, Khanh Hoa welcomed nearly 5.2 million visitors. The province’s tourism industry is making efforts to soon complete the goal of welcoming 9 million visitors this year.

Number of visitors increasing sharply

Summer is always the golden season of Khanh Hoa tourism. These days, the number of tourists coming to Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa is very large. Famous tourist destinations of the province are always bustling with tourists, especially sea and island tourist destinations. According to Tran Van Phu - Head of Nha Trang Tourist Wharf Management Department (Nha Trang Bay Management Board), on weekdays, the wharf welcomes nearly 6,000 visitors/day going on tours to visit the sea and islands in Nha Trang Bay, the figure may reach nearly 12,000 visitors/day on weekends. Similarly, the number of visitors to tourist areas like VinWonders Nha Trang, Hon Tam Nha Trang... has increased very sharply in recent days. With the attraction of the show "Rise of the Ocean Princess", Vinpearl Harbor Nha Trang (located in the VinWonders Nha Trang complex) has become an attractive destination for tourists when traveling to the coastal city this summer.

Nha Trang Ever Glamour 2024 expected to attract numerous tourists

Hotels and resorts in Khanh Hoa Province have very high room occupancy. “Ana Mandara Cam Ranh's room occupancy has reached more than 90%, on weekends the resort has almost no empty rooms. Currently, the resort is almost full of guests until the end of August 2024," said Le Dai Hai - General Manager of Ana Mandara Cam Ranh Resort. In resorts such as The Anam, Alma, Fusion Cam Ranh..., the room capacity is also very high. In Nha Trang City, hotels with beautiful locations along Tran Phu street like Sheraton Nha Trang, Novotel Nha Trang... have very high room capacity.

Attractive with a lot of events and new tourist products

According to a report from the provincial Department of Tourism, in the first 6 months of 2024, the province welcomed nearly 5.2 million visitors, an increase of 88% over the same period. Of which, international visitors reached nearly 2.4 million, 3.2 times more than the same period; domestic visitors reached 2.8 million, an increase of 40% over the same period. Total tourism revenue reached more than 26,072 billion VND, an increase of 97% over the same period. With the advantage of sea tourism, Khanh Hoa tourism industry is expecting to attract a large number of tourists this summer to soon complete the target of welcoming 9 million visitors in 2024, including 3 million international visitors. “In the summer, the number of domestic tourists coming to Khanh Hoa increases. Besides passengers traveling by air, the number of passengers traveling by road and rail increased significantly more than every year. In the international tourist segment, tourists from Korea, China, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Malaysia... are growing quite well. We believe that Khanh Hoa tourism will have good results this summer," shared Nguyen Thi Le Thanh - Director of the provincial Department of Tourism.

Tourists entertain at VinWonders Nha Trang

To attract tourists, the tourism industry focuses on organizing events and launching new products. Currently, the tourism industry is coordinating with relevant departments, branches and units to prepare for the Nha Trang International Light Festival 2024 (Ever Glamour Nha Trang 2024). The tourism industry expects this event to be a magnet for tourists to Khanh Hoa in mid-July. Vinpearl Joint Stock Company has launched the WonderFest 2024 event series with a series of attractive shows and tourism products. In addition to the show "Legend of the Blue Sea" launched in early June, Vinpearl will also bring the world-class circus show "The Amazing Journey" to serve tourists visiting VinWonders Nha Trang from July 4. 

Along with launching many tourists products, Khanh Hoa tourism industry also pays special attention to promotion and advertising. In addition to focusing on promoting some traditional markets such as China and Korea, the tourism industry also plans to promote some tourist markets such as Taiwan (China), Australia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan... to diversify the source of international tourists. In the near future, the provincial Department of Tourism will organize a survey of the tastes and spending of domestic and international tourists to Khanh Hoa to have orientations on building suitable products and services for tourists.
According to Pham Minh Nhut - Vice Chairman of Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa Tourism Association, after the high school graduation exam, many families will travel. Therefore, the number of domestic tourists will certainly increase further in the near future. Recently, Aero K Airlines has operated the Incheon - Cam Ranh route with a frequency of 4 flights/week. This is the 10th Korean airline to open flights to Cam Ranh. Many other international airlines also plan to increase flights to Cam Ranh. With good signals for both domestic and international tourist markets, Khanh Hoa tourism is expected to be bumper this year.

Ever Glamour Nha Trang 2024 will be competed by 4 teams from Korea, China, France, and UAE. The festival has 2 nights of performances, one at 2-4 Square, Nha Trang (evening of July 13) and another at Vinpearl Harbor Nha Trang (evening of July 20). Each team uses a minimum of 1,000 drones to demonstrate the current and future culture and image of Khanh Hoa (each performance lasts about 15 minutes), combined with modern music performances on the stage to create into a vivid, attractive, and emotional overall picture. 

Xuan Thanh
Translated by T.T