Strong travel demand predicted on long national holidays

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 15:57

The Government has allowed employees of state organisations to have fivestraight days off on the Reunification Day (April 30) and InternationalLabour Day (May 1) holidays, thus giving hopes that travel firms coulddo good business this time, the Saigon Times Daily has reported.

Tour operators are quick to roll out a variety of tours with attractive promotions for the long weekend holidays.

Saigontouristhas predicted a pickup in long-haul tours from Ho Chi Minh City to thecentral region, especially those taking in Da Nang, Hoi An (Quang Namprovince), Thien Duong Cave (Quang Binh province), Vung Chua (Quang Binhprovince) and Hue city for five days at 7.8 million VND (370 USD) perperson.

Another special offer of Saigontourist for theforthcoming holidays is a six-day tour that takes in Hanoi, Yen TuMountain, Halong Bay, Ninh Binh and Sapa and combines with Ha LongCarnival in Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh province. The tour departs onApril 30 and costs 9.595 million VND (370 USD). Meanwhile, the firm’sthree-day tour of Hanoi and Ha Long costs 3.250 million VND (154.2 USD).

Early birds enjoy discounts of 2-3 million VND per person compared to prices on normal days.

Fortours of Asian destinations, Saigontourist has a Thailand tour withprices ranging from 7.99 million VND to 10.5 million VND (379-498 USD) aclient. Three million VND will be taken off for each early bird.

ForEurope tours, Saigontourist charges 69.99 million VND (3,321 USD) oneach guest based in HCM City wishing to travel to Turkey and Greek foreight days, with departure set for April 26. The price for travelersdeparting from Hanoi is lower, at 55.9 million VND (2,653 USD).

Saigontouristsaid 15,000 customers had booked tours during the upcoming holidays bylate last week, an increase of 10-15% over last year.

Anothertravel firm in HCM City, Fiditour, is offering more than 300 short andlong-haul tours. The two most favorite tours arranged by Fiditour are athree-day visit to Nha Trang priced at 5.995 million VND (284 USD) and aHue-Thien Duong Cave-Trui Lake-Da Nang-Ba Na-Hoi An trip for five daysat 8.450 million VND (401 USD).

Fiditour’s international toursthat attract large numbers of bookings are a six-day tour of Singaporeand Malaysia, which departs on April 27 in HCM City and costs 16.055million VND (762 USD). The 11-day Denmark-Norway-Sweden-Finland-Polandtour costs around 99.9 million VND (4,741 USD).

Vietravel islaunching a promotion with a discount of 3 million VND for a five-dayHanoi-Sapa-Yen Tu-Halong and a Ba Be-Bac Can-Cao Bang-Ban GiocWaterfall-Lang Son tour, which are both priced at 8.590 million VND (407USD).
In 2013, Vietnam received 7,572,352 internationaltourists, a 10.6 percent rise over 2012, bringing 200 trillion VND (9.4billion USD) for the state coffer.

The tourism sector plans toreceive 8 million international visitors, serve 37.5 million domestictourists and earn 230 billion VND (10.8 million USD) this year.-VNA

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