Singapore is a popular destination among Vietnamese tourists (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) -Young Vietnamese are increasingly choosing overseas tours during holidays sinceprices are getting lower.
Just two or three years ago, a tour of the Republic of Korea cost 20 millionVND (857 USD) or more and the cheapest tour of Japan was 30 million VND.
Now trips to the RoK, Taiwan, Japan, and mainland China cost just a little morethan to Southeast Asian countries, the manager of a travel company in HCM Citysaid.
A five-day visit to the RoK now costs 11.5-12 million VND while a four-day tripto Japan costs 21-22 million VND.
Some travel firms even offer low-cost tours of the RoK and Taiwan at a mere 8-9million VND.
Choosing outbound tours has become a trend in Vietnam as local people’s incomesincrease and their consumption habits are changing, said Nguyen Van Tuan,General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.
According to preliminary statistics of the Vietnam Tourism Association, about6.5 million Vietnamese travelled abroad in 2016, spending about 7-8 billionUSD.
Every year, about 500,000 Vietnamese went to Europe, 150,000 to Taiwan, 250,000to Japan, 800,000 to Thailand and over 1 million to Cambodia.
Many travel companies have seen a two-digit annual growth of outbound tours inrecent years. Foreign tourism promotion agencies have continuously come toVietnam to promote their countries and territories’ tourism.
With various policies and programmes to promote tourism, stimulate demands andprovide direct support for Vietnamese travel agencies and tourists launched byforeign markets such as Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the RoK, the number of Vietnamesegoing abroad for travelling is on the rise.
A report by Mastercard on the future of outbound tours in Asia-Pacificprojected that around 7.5 million Vietnamese will travel overseas by 2021,accounting for 9.5 percent of the country’s population.-VNA
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