Dong Nai tourism gears up for year-end peak season

At this time, several tourist areas and attractions across Dong Nai province are preparing decorations, investing in upgrades, and enhancing facilities at destinations to serve visitors for sightseeing, recreation, and entertainment during the year-end holidays, including Christmas, New Year's Day, and Lunar New Year.

Tourists check-in at the traditional house area, part of Ula Resort Glamping (Tan Khai commune). Photo: Ngoc Lien

According to representatives of tourist areas and attractions, this is the last peak tourist season of the year, and it also coincides with a holiday that attracts a large number of tourists. As a result, units are decorating their destinations impressively to welcome visitors and the new year.

Creating a spring atmosphere for destinations

Dong Nai currently boasts several well-known tourist areas and attractions that draw visitors from both within and outside the province, such as: Bo Cap Vang Ecological Tourist Area (Phuoc An commune); Ula Resort Glamping (Tan Khai commune); Suoi Mo Tourist Area (Tan Phu commune); Chua Chan Mountain cultural and spiritual tourism destination (Xuan Loc commune); Son Tien ecological tourist city (Long Hung ward); Buu Long tourist area (Tran Bien ward); Cat Tien National Park (Nam Cat Tien commune); Bu Gia Map National Park (Bu Gia Map commune); Ta Thiet Base (Loc Ninh commune); and Tri An lake area (Tri An commune), among others. During each peak tourism season, these destinations attract hundreds of thousands of visitors for sightseeing, recreation, and accommodation, especially during the Lunar New Year.

As per annual tradition, every spring, Buu Long Tourist Area invests in and prepares decorations to serve visitors. Nguyen Danh Thinh, Acting Director of Buu Long Investment and Development Co., Ltd., shared: Every New Year, Buu Long Tourist Area is usually brightly decorated, filled with flags and flowers to welcome the new year and serve tourists who come to visit and experience the festivities. In particular, the unit focuses on creating spaces to serve businesses and units organizing year-end parties for employees.

Thinh added that the tourist area will prepare tens of thousands of colorful, fresh flower pots, along with new miniature landscapes and experiential tourism spaces to serve visitors. In addition to redecorating the site, the unit will also organize unique art performances and a rural market space featuring a variety of traditional folk dishes. Notably, for many years now, Buu Long Tourist Area has not increased its entrance fees. The unit continues to maintain a ticket price of 150,000 VND for adults and 60,000 VND for children between 1 and 1.4 meters tall; children under 1 meter tall are admitted free of charge.

Located near Ho Chi Minh City, Bo Cap Vang Ecological Tourist Area attracts a large number of visitors for sightseeing, entertainment, and recreation during holidays and Tet, particularly during the year-end travel season. Nguyen Thanh Sang, Director of Bo Cap Vang Ecological Tourist Area, shared: With the theme "Rural Spring – Connection & Serenity", Bo Cap Vang will create a festive spring space featuring unique miniature landscapes such as: Calligrapher’s street – writing calligraphy; a rural market space – lucky tree, Bo Cap Vang flower street, Tet pole, and a decorative cluster with giant banh chung and banh tet. These will serve as distinctive highlights for visitors during the year-end peak season.

Sang added, "Every year during the Lunar New Year, Bo Cap Vang Tourist Area welcomes thousands of tourists. In addition to the miniature landscapes as highlights, during this period Bo Cap Vang also offers a variety of impressive and flavorful dishes such as: Clay pot grilled chicken, grilled snakehead fish served with fresh herbs and rice paper rolls, grilled wild boar, fermented fish hotpot, goby fish hotpot, and grilled river shrimp with chili salt and many more, which are all very popular with visitors."

As a pioneering unit in organizing surveys and promoting destinations to develop tourism products in the northern part of Dong Nai province connected with Long Thanh International Airport, Tran Thi Thu Trang, Deputy Director of the Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Center of Dong Nai province, said that many businesses, following the survey trip, highly appreciated the tourism potential of the destinations. Trang expressed hope that this will be an opportunity for tourism in northern Dong Nai in particular, and Dong Nai tourism in general, to grow and attract both domestic and international visitors. Especially when Long Thanh International Airport becomes operational, tourism products in northern Dong Nai will be actively promoted, transforming the area into destinations that meet international standards.

Adding new tourism spaces

Following the provincial merger, Dong Nai's tourism landscape has taken on new shades in the northern part of the province. Destinations such as Bu Gia Map National Park and Ta Thiet Base have stood out. Notably, the area has recently welcomed new sites with impressive scale and natural scenery, including Ula Resort Glamping (Tan Khai commune) and Farm Don Binh Minh (Dong Xoai ward).

With its lush natural surroundings and impressively designed check-in spots, Ula Resort Glamping is one of the new destinations that has recently opened in Tan Khai commune. Covering an area of approximately 20 hectares, Ula Glamping is divided into multiple zones featuring striking natural landscapes, including: a glamping area nestled in a breezy green space; a pine hill and cool stream area; an artificial beach and SUP lake with archery; and a cultural house zone that recreates traditional thatched houses, old villages, film sets, and Hoi An ancient town. These spacious areas are ideal for organizing group activities, games, team building, or extracurricular programs.

Mai Van Duc, Director of Chuyen Di Viet Tourism Co., Ltd., said that Ula Glamping is a new destination offering many exciting experiences for tourists. In particular, it features numerous scenic photo spots, especially appealing to female visitors and young travel groups. In addition to its recreational offerings, the accommodation services at Ula Glamping are also quite good. In the near future, Chuyen Di Viet will launch a tour route connecting several destinations in the northern part of Dong Nai province. Duc expressed hope that this will become a new tourism product with completely fresh "flavors" for travelers from the southern part of Dong Nai and neighboring areas such as Ho Chi Minh City, Tay Ninh, and the Central Highlands region.

By Thuy Moc – Translated by Mai Nga, Minho