Two Countries, One Epic Incentive: Sri Lanka Meets Vietnam
VietJetAir's new Colombo–Ho Chi Minh City flights unlock a dual-destination group travel corridor that planners would be foolish to ignore
What if you could offer your client one incentive program and two completely different worlds?
That's the proposition now sitting on the table, courtesy of VietJetAir's newly launched direct service between Colombo, Sri Lanka and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — operating three times weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For incentive planners and experience designers, this is one of the most interesting route launches of 2026. Not because of where it connects, but because of what it makes possible. Two Countries, One Epic Incentive.
The Corridor That Changes Everything
Before this route, combining Sri Lanka and Vietnam in a single incentive program meant routing through Singapore, Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur and burning a day of your programme on transit. Now there's a direct link. Three times a week. Which means a split-destination program — a few days in Sri Lanka followed by Vietnam, or vice versa — becomes genuinely plannable rather than theoretically appealing.
Ho Chi Minh City is also VietJetAir's main hub, which means onward connectivity from this new corridor extends across Vietnam's domestic network as well as East Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia. For groups wanting to extend further, or for programs that start in Asia and fold Sri Lanka in as a cultural detour, the logistics just became dramatically simpler.
Sri Lanka: The One That Always Surprises Groups
Sri Lanka remains one of the most underutilised incentive destinations in Asia. Which, for planners, is actually part of the appeal. Groups arriving here aren't arriving somewhere they've already been. They're arriving somewhere that still has the capacity to genuinely astonish.
Think private temple ceremonies at Sigiriya at sunrise, whale watching off Mirissa, private tea estate tours in the Hill Country with a plantation dinner as the sun drops behind the mountains, elephant encounters (ethical, camp-based) in Minneriya, and some of the most jaw-dropping beachfront properties in the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka offers culture, wildlife, wellness and coastline in a geography compact enough to actually experience meaningfully in five or six days.
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Vietnam: The City and the Soul
Ho Chi Minh City is electric in the way that only Southeast Asian megacities are — chaotic and creative and delicious all at once. But Vietnam for incentive travel is really a country-scale conversation. Hội An offers one of Asia's most atmospheric old towns for exclusive evening events. Ha Long Bay remains among the world's genuinely unmissable group experiences. And the country's food culture — from street food crawls to private cooking experiences with Michelin-recognised chefs — gives you extraordinary group dining from arrival to departure.
Combine the ancient spirituality of Sri Lanka with the vibrant modernity of Vietnam, and you have a program with genuine narrative arc. Groups don't just travel — they go on a journey with contrast, depth and discovery built into the structure.
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One DMC Isn't Enough — You Need Two Great Ones
A dual-destination program of this ambition requires expert local knowledge in both countries. That means two DMC partners who understand their markets intimately and can coordinate seamlessly across the transfer point. From Sri Lanka's private temple access to Vietnam's exclusive floating dinner on Ha Long Bay, the details that make these programmes extraordinary don't happen without people on the ground who've done it before.
The new direct flight is the bridge. The DMC partners you choose are what make both sides of it memorable.
Contact our DMC partners in Sri Lanka and Vietnam today to start designing your dual-destination incentive program.
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