The Hot Air Balloon Festival attracts tens of thousands of visitors and visitors. Photo: Ngoc Lien

This is the biggest Festival event in Dong Nai ever. With a budget of 14 billion VND, entirely from socialized sources, the Festival has received great support from businesses inside and outside the province to bring impressive results to Dong Nai such as: Hot Air Balloon Festival which set a record for the largest hot air balloon festival in Vietnam with a series of impressive hot air balloon activities; or Ceramic Festival with the participation of dozens of ceramic businesses inside and outside the province, displaying thousands of ceramic products...

Partners join forces for the local

To achieve the success of the festival, it is impossible not to mention the companionship and contribution from the main sponsors of the festival such as: Saigon Chien Thang Import-Export Investment, Trade and Service Joint Stock Company (Chien Thang Company, Ho Chi Minh City) is the unit that both sponsors and coordinates the organization of the Hot Air Balloon Festival with the role of supplying and operating hot air balloons at the Festival; Son Tien Eco-Tourism City Joint Stock Company (Son Tien Tourist Area) sponsors and hosts the location for organizing daily hot air balloon flights.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Ho Thanh Son and Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Duong Minh Dung thanked the sponsors and organizers of the Dong Nai Hot Air Balloon Festival. Photo: Ngoc Lien

In addition, the Pottery - Hot Air Balloon Festival also received support and sponsorship from units and businesses such as: Kim Oanh Real Estate Group, Vietcombank Dong Dong Nai, Agribank Dong Nai, BIDV Bank, Vietinbank, Golden Sun Company Limited, NOVA Group, D2D Company, Quang Phuc Group Joint Stock Company, Amata Bien Hoa Urban Joint Stock Company.

Mr. Hoang Ngoc Nam, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Chien Thang Company, said that with extensive experience in the field of hot air balloons and also being born in Dong Nai, Chien Thang Company wishes to bring its strengths to contribute to the great event of the country. Therefore, with the scale of 50 hot air balloons at the Festival, Dong Nai province has been recognized as the largest hot air balloon festival in Vietnam.

However, to have space for 50 hot air balloons to fly together, there needs to be a large enough space that is convenient for people to participate. To meet this requirement of the festival, Son Tien Tourist Area has joined hands, accompanied, and become the host and organizer of the province's major event during the past 4 days.

In addition to the direct organizing units, the sponsors also contributed to the success of the Festival. Mr. Tran Thanh Nam, Director of Vietcombank Dong Dong Nai shared that Vietcombank Dong Dong Nai always wants to work with the locality to create cultural and spiritual values ​​for the people. Especially in the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South, which is a great event for the whole nation, Vietcombank Dong Dong Nai is ready to become the gold sponsor for the province's Pottery - Hot Air Balloon Festival.

Building tourism brand, promoting image of Dong Nai people

Hot air balloons are a modern, unique type of aerial sport and entertainment equipment that has great appeal to the public and tourists. Currently, there are many large and small hot air balloon festivals in the world every year. The first hot air balloons introduced to Dong Nai in 2004 were the “heat balloons” and have contributed to creating a jubilant atmosphere, leaving many beautiful impressions in many festivals and events.

Hot air balloons can hover in place or fly freely for dozens of kilometers and carry 20-30 tourists depending on the size of the balloon. The experience of flying a hot air balloon brings excitement to any tourist who has the opportunity. Participants in the flight will be able to see the whole city of Bien Hoa and the surrounding area from a new and unique perspective from above.

Hot air balloons promote the festival image and show gratitude to sponsors. Photo: Ngoc Lien

The Hot Air Balloon Festival is a unique cultural and tourism event, marking a new development step in the strategy of promoting the image and tourism potential of Dong Nai. Thereby, building a brand of typical tourism products, creating strong appeal, attracting a large number of people, domestic and international tourists to participate, while promoting the image of the brand of tourist destinations, land, culture and people of Dong Nai.

According to Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Duong Minh Dung, the organization of the Dong Nai Hot Air Balloon Festival in 2025 aims to create new and unique tourism products, build a brand of typical tourism products, create strong appeal, and attract a large number of people and domestic and international tourists to participate.
At the same time, the provincial leaders also emphasized that the Festival contributes to promoting the image of the tourism destination brand, culture - civilization of Dong Nai. The hot air balloon event in Dong Nai will create an outstanding, impressive, breakthrough destination for tourism, creating opportunities to develop business activities of food, accommodation and entertainment services in Dong Nai.

In addition, the Hot Air Balloon Festival represents the aspiration of “Flying to Dong Nai! The heroic spirit of the Eastern region” and the spirit of innovation and creativity of Dong Nai in the new period of development and integration.

Ngoc Lien

Source: https://baodongnai.com.vn/tin-moi/202505/festival-khinh-khi-cau-lon-nhat-dong-nai-de-lai-nhieu-an-tuong-trong-long-du-khach-3181ec4/