Medical tourism has emerged as a major trend around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental pollution have caused people to pay more attention to their health. Particularly, experts said the post-COVID-19 era would be a booming period for all types of healthcare services.
Torrential rain has turned major streets in Quang Ngai into rivers. (Photo: VOV) Heavy downpours lasting from October 22 evening to October 23 afternoon drenched large areas of Binh Son, Son Tinh, Tu Nghia, and Nghia Hanh districts and Quang Ngai city. In Quang Ngai city, heavy rain on October 23 evening flooded thousands of homes and roads, disrupting traffic on major arteries. Rising floodwaters also caused traffic congestion on National Highway 1A passing Binh Nguyen commune, Binh Son district. Rescue forces moved more than 2,000 local residents from low-lying areas to safer parts of the district, said Ung Dinh Hien, deputy head of the district’s administration. Residents’ houses inundated (Photo: LDO) In Nghia Hanh district, water levels in the Phuoc Giang river are rising rapidly, exceeding the third alert level. More than 750 households living along the river were inundated, with some places 1.5m deep in water. A local was reported missing due to rising floodwaters in Hanh D
Keeping the brand name of Hue tourism surpassing pandemic season
Keeping the brand name of Hue tourism surpassing pandemic season
Each business working in the tourism and service industry has their own philosophy and put it into their leading concentration to build up a brand name and strategies for development.
Rowing SUP on the Huong River has been a new product of Hue recently (photo taken before the COVID-19 outbreak):
Photo: MC
Identifying specific brand name
According to the recent research of Vietnam Tourism Association, facing hard tourism activities during the pandemic, there are two types of businesses’ reaction: being calm and minimizing everything to maintenance level until everything is back into normal, and the second type is many businesses consider it as an opportunity to distribute the products that are not as usual to come onto the market, taking advantage of the chance to create the new services.
Many programs and products attract intra-provincial visitors
Many programs and products attract intra-provincial visitors
Hue tourism has restarted by stimulating the demand of intra-provincial visitors. To proactively attract visitors, businesses have just launched many new promotion programs.
The áo dài ngũ thân-wearing tour of Hue City is a product likely to exploit the intra-provincial visitors. (áo dài ngũ thân: a type of traditional costume of the Vietnamese) (Photo taken prior to the 4th pandemic outbreak)
Preferences for Hue people
According to the Provincial Tourism Association, this is the time for stimulus programs exclusively for Hue people to be launched on the market. Recently, businesses have made huge efforts to launch new stimulus programs and packages to revive the “rhythm” of the Ancient Capital tourism.