Joining in the solemn and joyful atmosphere of the United Nations Day of Vesak 2025 (Vesak 2025), a major event taking place from May 6-8 in Ho Chi Minh City, many businesses operating in the tourism and travel sector in the city have simultaneously introduced a series of special spiritual itineraries, designed specifically to welcome visitors from all over the country and international friends.
With the diversity of products and services built, tourism businesses expect to contribute to promoting the image of the beautiful country of Vietnam, friendly people and rich spiritual destinations on the world tourism map. Through these journeys, tourists not only have the opportunity to worship Buddha's relics and priceless national treasures from India, solemnly invited to Vietnam for the first time, but also return to the sacred Buddhist lands, where good karma is nurtured, merit is cultivated and deep peace of mind is found.
The United Nations Vesak Festival is a major event of global Buddhism.
For that reason, the series of spiritual tours to celebrate Vesak 2025 has been meticulously designed by travel agencies, not only as pilgrimages, but also focusing on flexibility in time, diversity in itinerary and richness in content, to meet all the different spiritual experience needs of tourists. Participating in these journeys, tourists will have the opportunity to attend solemn prayer ceremonies, release sparkling flower lanterns carrying wishes for peace, enjoy pure and peaceful vegetarian meals and explore and learn about unique indigenous cultures, closely associated with spiritual life and Buddhist beliefs in many different lands across Vietnam.
Through diverse products and services, the business hopes to contribute to promoting destinations, images and people of Vietnam on the international spiritual tourism map.
Specifically, domestic and foreign tourists can flexibly choose and participate in spiritual journeys taking place from now until May 8 at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy (campus 2, Ho Chi Minh City); continuing from May 9-14 at the ancient Quan Su Pagoda in Hanoi; and from May 15-21 at the majestic Tam Chuc Pagoda complex in Ha Nam province. All of these meaningful journeys are organized by reputable tourism and travel businesses in Ho Chi Minh City.
Through diverse products and services, the business hopes to contribute to promoting destinations, images and people of Vietnam on the international spiritual tourism map.
In addition, in order to increase spiritual values and bring deeper experiences to each tourist's journey, travel agencies also design meaningful pilgrimages to countless famous Buddhist sites across the S-shaped strip of land. Typically, Vietravel Tourism Company (Vietravel) has introduced unique spiritual destinations in the Southern region such as a visit to the Lonely Buddha Pagoda, a peaceful place hidden in the middle of a peaceful land, where the majestic and peaceful meditating Buddha Shakyamuni is worshiped; at the same time, tourists also have the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to the sacred Ba Den mountain, admire the majestic Buddha statue of Tay Bo Da Son, known as the largest monolithic bronze Buddha statue in Asia, standing tall in the midst of a majestic natural landscape.
In the series of special products celebrating Vesak 2025 of Vietravel, the highlight is the tour "Binh Chanh: Connecting memories - Phap Tang Pagoda - Bat Buu Phat Dai," with a duration of one day, departing on May 6, 8 and 10, with an extremely attractive price, from only 699,000 VND.
Many attractive spiritual tours are designed to attract tourists.
Not only focusing on the South, Vietravel also offers meaningful spiritual journeys in the North, taking visitors to Bai Dinh Pagoda, the largest pagoda complex in Southeast Asia with a massive system of statues and unique architecture; pilgrimage to the sacred Yen Tu mountain, where King Tran Nhan Tong founded the Truc Lam Zen sect, a Zen sect with strong Vietnamese identity; and explore Tam Chuc Pagoda (Ha Nam), the most majestic spiritual landscape in Vietnam, which is also honored to become one of the centers for organizing important ceremonies of the Vesak 2025 Festival, spreading the spirit of solidarity and the desire for peace everywhere.
The ceremony took place with the main theme: "Solidarity and tolerance for human dignity: Buddhist wisdom for world peace and sustainable development"
In parallel with introducing special spiritual tours, many other travel businesses in Ho Chi Minh City also take on an important role in organizing accommodation for thousands of delegates from 85 countries and territories attending the Vesak 2025. The top priority for these businesses is to ensure strict requirements on service quality for each international group. Along with that, businesses have deployed a flexible transportation system, with a team of experienced and dedicated staff, from professional drivers, thoughtful tour operators to a team of guides knowledgeable about culture and Buddhism, to serve thoughtfully the transportation of delegates from the airport, hotel to the festival venue and sightseeing spots according to the planned schedule.
According to tourism and travel businesses, the 2025 Vesak tour series aims to open up opportunities to worship Buddha's relics, an Indian national treasure that has been invited to Vietnam for the first time.
Regarding the important event of Vesak 2025, a representative of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism said that the Department has closely coordinated with many departments, branches, sectors and the People's Committee of Binh Chanh district to organize the Binh Chanh District Culture - Tourism Week 2025 and Vesak 2025, expected to attract the participation of about 2,700 international delegates and millions of domestic tourists.
In particular, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism introduced 9 diverse tourism programs, lasting from 1 to 2 days, designed specifically for delegates and visitors to have the opportunity to experience and learn deeply about historical relics, attractive tourist destinations, traditional craft products and unique cultural activities in Binh Chanh district and neighboring areas. The Department also actively coordinated with a number of units to organize booths to promote tourism information, introduce famous traditional craft villages such as incense making village, yellow apricot growing village; display and sell unique souvenirs, rich regional specialties and high-quality OCOP products.
