Khanh Hoa to have more direct flights to Kazakhstan

Vietjet Air aircraft in Cam Ranh International Airport (Photo: VNA)

Khanh Hoa (VNA) – Budget carrier Vietjet Air will begin carryingtourists from Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, to the central provinceof Khanh Hoa later this month, as an effort to boost tourism recovery postCOVID-19.

This is the outcome of cooperation between the airline and AnexVietnam Travel and Trading Co., Ltd., according to deputy managing director ofthe company Bui Quoc Dai.

As planned, the carrier will operate two weekly flights onthe Cam Ranh-Almaty route from the end of this month to April next year.

The first flight is scheduled to depart from the Cam RanhInternational Airport to the Almaty International Airport on October 25. Itwill return from Kazakhstan the following day. Each flight will transport some180-200 passengers, according to Dai.

Tourists from Kazakhstan will spend their vacation for oneto four weeks at hotels and resorts in Khanh Hoa, go shopping and take a citytour, among others.

The first flights are expected to bring delegationsto Khanh Hoa to survey tourism potential and advantages of Vietnam in generaland the central province in particular.

In the first nine months of 2022, Khanh Hoa welcomed over2.1 million tourists, including 150,000 foreigners – a 7.3fold increase over the same period of last year./.

VNA