VietNamNet Bridge – Travel firms have said that the number of tourists registering for tours this summer has increased by 25-30%.
More tourists, more new tours
Saigontourist said that it had served more than 38,000 clients since the beginning of the summer tourism season (May and June), including 15,000 foreign tourists (+76%), and 23,000 Vietnamese tourists, who have gone on domestic and outbound tours.
Fiditour also said that the number of tourists this summer had increased by 20-30%. The company served more than 1,500 tourists on the occasion of the Nha Trang Sea Festival alone.
Tour operators said that most clients wanted tours to the sea to avoid the summer heat. Fiditour has launched a series of tours called “Blue sea and islands” with the destinations of Phu Quoc, Con Dao, Nha Trang and Quy Nhon.
Vietnamese tourists now like outbound tours for their holidays, and their favourite destinations are neighbouring countries including China, Cambodia and Thailand.
According to Saigontourist, China attracts Vietnamese travellers not only because of its landscapes and historical sites, but also because it’s a business destination. Travel firms all have reported that the number of travellers going to China is increasing sharply. 30% of Fiditour’s outbound tourists and 27% of Saigontourist’s clients go to China.
In order to meet the increased demand for travelling, firms have been trying to offer many new tours. One of the tours is to visit Cambodia along the HCM City-Chau Doc-Phnom Penh-Siam Reap waterway (through Tinh Bien border gate); another is Brunei-Indonesia, with the main destinations of Bali tourism island, and Brunei-Kota Kinabalu. Tourists can also go to Russia and the US to enjoy Russian and American summers.
More cruise travellers
Cruise travelling has become a favourite of Vietnamese people. Travel firms now provide MICE tours to Malaysia and Singapore on the five-star Super Star Gemini. This is the first time Vietnam has provided MICE tours under the form of cruise-fly.
The fees for MICE cruise tours are 20-30% higher than air tours: the tour to Malaysia and Singapore (five days and four nights) with five-star cruise for departure and fly back on return is priced at nearly $700.
Travel and studying in one
Most local travel firms have launched new tours targeting young clients, under which school boys and girls can go abroad for tourism and training courses at the same time. The tour to Singapore for studying English, for example, lasts two weeks and has package expenses of $1,700. The 4-week tour to Singapore and Malaysia costs $2,500.
Saigontourist has introduced a tour to Nha Trang sea city for 6-9-class schoolboys, “Children Care”. The programme lasts four days, and costs VND1.6mil ($100).
Nguyen Sa | 
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