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Outbound tours popular for Tet holiday

Travel demand for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday that this year begins on February 16 is expected to increase 20-30 percent compared to last year.
Outbound tours popular for Tet holiday ảnh 1Customers book tours at Fiditour. (Photo nld.com.vn)

HCM City (VNA) - Travel demandfor the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday that this year begins on February16 is expected to increase 20-30 percent compared to last year.

Tour prices are expected to rise by 5-15 percentcompared to normal days due to higher fees for airfares, hotels andtransportation, travel firms said.

Vietravel, one of the leading tour serviceproviders in the country, has sold 65 percent of its outbound tours and 55 percentof domestic tours for the period, said Duong Kim Chi, deputy director ofVietravel.

Travellers have planned their Tet tripsearlier than in previous years, with a variety of destinations, Chi said.

Trips under seven days such as tours toJapan and the Republic of Korea have been fully booked, with only 10 percentleft for sale, she said.

For domestic tours, destinations in thenorth are popular, followed by those in the central region.

This year, the company is organisingoverseas tours via air charter from Ho Chi Minh City to Fukushima in Japan, Phuket andChiang Mai in Thailand, and Ningbo in China, with prices at 30 percent lowerthan conventional packages.

The company expects to serve 38,000tourists, up 20-25 percent compared to last year.

Tran Thi Bao Thu, director of Fiditour’smarketing and communication, said the company expected a 30 percent increase inthe number of bookings for Tet tours this year.

The number of bookings reached 75 percentof the company’s tours planned for the new year, Thu said. Outbound tour priceswill rise by 5-10 percent compared to last year.

A representative of Viet Media Travel saidoutbound tours to Europe, Australia and the US are fully booked.

The company has sold 80 percent of outboundtours to several Asian countries and domestic tours for Tet.

Outbound tours to Dubai, the RoK, Japan,Thailand and Singapore and domestic tours to northern and central destinationshave attracted many travellers.

The number of outbound tour bookings at TSTTourist increased 25 percent year-on-year to reach 2,800 customers, while thenumber of domestic tour bookings were estimated at 1,500 customers, up 20 percentyear-on-year.

Long-trip tours to Europe, the US andAustralia have also attracted a large number of customers. - VNA
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