Holiday tour bookings grow 10-25% Chi Thinh By Chi Thinh - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC - Local tour operators have reported year-on-year growth of 10-25% in tour bookings during the upcoming Vietnam Reunification Day (April 30) and Labor Day (May 1) holidays. More bookings for five days of the holidays this year have caused prices of domestic tours and hotel rooms to increase by up to 20% compared to the same period of last year, according to tour operators. The tours of two to four days have attracted customers and their destinations of choice are the Central Highlands and key tourist destinations, including Dalat, Nha Trang, Phan Thiet, Phu Quoc and Con Dao. Tran Thi Bao Thu, director of marketing and communications of Fiditour, said the company had realized more than 95% of the bookings for domestic and overseas tours. Many travel companies have stopped receiving new bookings for next week when people have five days off, particularly group bookings. However, a number of firms … [Read more...] about Holiday tour bookings grow 10-25%
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Travel firms upbeat about holiday tours
Travel firms upbeat about holiday tours Ngoc Trai By Ngoc Trai - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC - Travel agencies in HCMC are optimistic that their tours for the upcoming holidays, particularly the New Year, will sell well when there are four days off. Preliminary statistics of travel companies in the city showed bookings of domestic and overseas tours during the New Year holiday are at least 10% higher than the same period last year. Tran Thi Bao Thu, marketing and communications director of Fiditour Joint Stock Company, told the Daily that bookings of the company’s New Year tour programs have gone up 25-28% year-on-year. The best-selling tours take in coastal areas such as Phu Quoc and Nha Trang and northern destinations Hanoi and Sapa, as well as Singapore and Thailand. A number of tour operators have stopped receiving new bookings of Sapa tours on certain days. Thu said Fiditour has sold out HCMC-Sapa tours which cost nearly VND7 million per person. Huynh Thanh Viet, … [Read more...] about Travel firms upbeat about holiday tours
Public holiday tour ideas
Have you got plans for the upcoming South Liberation Day holiday on April 30 and International Labor Day on May 1? If not, local tourist operators have much to offer you. Charming beauties of the north … [Read more...] about Public holiday tour ideas
Thai customs accused of discriminating against Vietnam tourists
Many Vietnamese tourists have reported Thai customs officers "imperiously" and "rudely" ask them to present cash and pose for an offensive photo before allowing to cross the Poipet or Arayaprathet border gate connecting Thailand and Cambodia. … [Read more...] about Thai customs accused of discriminating against Vietnam tourists
Vietnam’s first luxury tour operator will exhibit at WTM Africa
A long-established Asian specialist in luxury fully be spoke holidays in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand, will exhibit at WTM Africa from May 2-3 in Cape Town, South Africa (Stand L11). The aim is to promote high-end tourism products in the leisure luxury segment and to find buyers who want to sell unique luxury travel experiences to discerning African travelers and to help company representatives acquire knowledge about the demands, preferences, and needs of the market. "The direct THAI flight connecting Johannesburg with Hanoi through Bangkok, or Malaysia Airlines, Singapore Airlines and frequent services by Gulf-based airlines (Qatar and Emirates), puts Luxury Travel's offers of authentic encounters within easy reach of South Africans," says Pham Ha, CEO of Vietnamese luxury tour operator Luxury Travel Ltd. "We already have good GIT and FIT traffic from South Africa to Indochina. For years we have had a very positive experience at WTM London, so it was a … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s first luxury tour operator will exhibit at WTM Africa