Son Doong cave in Quang Binh province (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The central province of Quang Binh plans to shift thefocus of tourism from international tourists to domestic tourists whileoffering affordable prices to stir the tourism market.
On May 6, the People’s Committee of Quang Binh Province issued a document onthe price reduction of a number of tourism products and services in theprovince, the Nhan dan newspaper reported.
In particular, Oxalis Adventure Tours, the leading jungle and cave adventuretour operator in Vietnam, was allowed to lower the price of the tour‘Conquering Son Doong – the world’s largest cave’ to 2,500 USD per tourist,which will apply from May 15 to December 31 this year.
The province also encouraged local travel enterprises to reduce prices forother tours exploring the cave systems of Va, Nuoc Nut, En and others toimplement the 2020-2021 tourism stimulus programme in the post-pandemic period.
The provincial authorities have also allowed the managing board of the PhongNha – Ke Bang National Park to continue to pilot the tour exploring Vom-GiengVooc Cave until May 31 of this year.
After the pilot period, the managing board will report the trial results to theprovincial authorities to consider the official operation of the tour.
The fee for a one-day tour to Vom-Gieng Vooc Cave was also lowered to 120,000 VNDfrom 200,000 VND per tourist.
The provincial Department of Tourism said that the province welcomedapproximately 35,000 visitors during the 45th anniversary of the liberation ofthe South and National Reunification Day on April 30 and May Day. The visitorsmainly came from Hanoi and neighbouring provinces./.
VNA
