Most travel agents confirm that toursfor the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival have been fully booked due to thelong Tet holiday.
The tourism market this year hasshown signs of resurgence, with bookings for Tet tours increasing from15 to 30 percent against last year, prompting travel agents to announcethat they have stopped accepting bookings for tours.
According to Duong Mai Lan, head of the research and developmentdepartment of Viettravel Hanoi company, the number of tourists bookingthrough the agent’s branches reached 11,000, a year-on-year increase of30-35 percent.
After the government announced that this Tet would be a nine-dayholiday, domestic ticket sales increased 10 percent, filling up bothdomestic and outbound tours, she said.
The Saigon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) has received morethan 11,000 holiday makers, of which outbound tours increased from 15to 25 percent over 2009 and tours have been fully booked since February8 while the Vietran company stopped booking a month ago.
This year, people seem to be favouring China , Japan , Thailand ,Cambodia , Singapore , and Malaysia for outbound tours while the mostpopular destinations in Vietnam are northern sites, where activities tocelebrate the 1,000 anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi are concentrated,as well as beautiful beaches as Nha Trang, Phan Thiet, Phu Quoc, VungTau or traditional festivals across the coutry./.
The tourism market this year hasshown signs of resurgence, with bookings for Tet tours increasing from15 to 30 percent against last year, prompting travel agents to announcethat they have stopped accepting bookings for tours.
According to Duong Mai Lan, head of the research and developmentdepartment of Viettravel Hanoi company, the number of tourists bookingthrough the agent’s branches reached 11,000, a year-on-year increase of30-35 percent.
After the government announced that this Tet would be a nine-dayholiday, domestic ticket sales increased 10 percent, filling up bothdomestic and outbound tours, she said.
The Saigon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) has received morethan 11,000 holiday makers, of which outbound tours increased from 15to 25 percent over 2009 and tours have been fully booked since February8 while the Vietran company stopped booking a month ago.
This year, people seem to be favouring China , Japan , Thailand ,Cambodia , Singapore , and Malaysia for outbound tours while the mostpopular destinations in Vietnam are northern sites, where activities tocelebrate the 1,000 anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi are concentrated,as well as beautiful beaches as Nha Trang, Phan Thiet, Phu Quoc, VungTau or traditional festivals across the coutry./.
