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Vietnam Holiday travel in May popular despite price hike

Hanoi – The rising cost of travel hasn’t deterred people from making plans for the long weekend that accompanies Vietnam unification Day (April 30) and Labour Day (May 1), even with prices jumping 20 to 50 percent over the holiday, according to domestic tourist agencies.

The agencies reported that the price of tours to regional countries such as China , Malaysia and Singapore have gone up dramatically around that period. Tours to Thailand for six days and five nights rose from 347 USD to 408 USD per person. Tours to Singapore for four days and three nights increased by 70 USD.

The prices weren’t scaring away eager travelers, according to a representative from Viettravel who said their number of clients booking tours to foreign countries still increased by 15-20 percent.

The representative said that 6,000 tourists came to his company to book outbound tours and some were full by the end of last month.

This year, demand to visit China has increased the most.

Fiditour tourism company said that around 30 percent of the 70 foreign tours they are visits to China . Around 40 percent of their clients chose China as a destination for the long weekend.

Demand for tours to domestic destinations also increased over the holiday.

An official from Trans Viet in the capital city of Hanoi said that anyone looking to go to Sapa Da lat Hoi an or Hue should make other plans because all hotels and planes were full.

Compared with the same period last year, the representative from Viettravel said the number of tourist visiting domestic destinations increased by 20 percent, even with the price of domestic tours at this time increasing by 100,000-300,000 VND because of higher hotel and fuel charges.

Nguyen Ngoc An from Fiditour agreed that the price of domestic tours in his company increased by 15 percent around this time, while the number of tourists also went up by 20 percent.

Building up to the holiday many people have had trouble buying Train and bus tickets to go to cities such as Hue, Hcm city Lao cai and Nha trang although the long weekend is still two weeks away.

Phung Thi Ly Ha, deputy head of Hanoi Station, said that recently, many tourism companies have asked for tickets to tourist destinations over this holiday, but they could meet only 30 percent of the demand.

Bus stations are also under pressures as they expect the number of passengers to increase by 300 percent. Stations are planning to release more buses to meet to increased demand.
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Vietnam Holiday travel in May popular despite price hike

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