Wednesday 30 January 2013

Travel firms complain of economic difficulties

Kênh du lịch Huế trang cung cấp các thông tin về dịch vụ du lịch Huế, đặc sản huế các bánh bèo , cơm hến, Bún bò Huế. Các điểm tham quan như chùa Thiên Mụ, lăng Tự Đức, Lăng Minh Mạng, Lăng Khải Định Công ty Eagletourist chuyên cung cấp các tour du lịch giá rẻ, tour ghép đoàn miền trung, tour du lịch lào, tour du lịch campuchia, tour du lịch thái lan với giá cả rẻ nhất, dịch vụ hoàn hảo nhất. Các bạn vui lòng liện hệ hoặc book tour online để có giá tốt nhất nhé While, according to many, the tourism industry in Vietnam has shown significant progress, many travel firms have said that they are facing difficulties. Many travel firms recorded lower profits despite more tourists The country welcomed over 6.8 million international tourists last year, up 13.86% compared to a year earlier. The number of international tourists to Hanoi reached 2.1 million last year, up 11.3% from the year before. However, the figures seemed not to reflect the situation of small to medium-sized businesses that specialise in services for international travellers. In Hanoi a survey of such businesses revealed that many had to lay off between 25% and 40% of their employees. Others reported having to move office locations to less convenient, but more affordable buildings. Although the peak of the tourism season is from October to April, many tourism companies continue to report losses. Nguyen Vu Vy, manager of Ha Hoi restaurant in Hanoi, said, "When our business was thriving, we welcomed as many as 150 international tourists every day during the month of November. However, the figure has dropped to around 30." An unnamed director of a five-star hotel in Hanoi said they failed to meet their quota this year, with only a 73% occupancy rate, down 2% from last year. Their very modest increase in room prices and a number of promotion programmes failed to attract guests, and the hotel's revenue dropped by more than 10% for the year. He attributed this to the global financial situation. More tourists, lower profits HCM City municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that last year hotel profits in the city as a whole were much lower than a year earlier due to higher overheads. Occupancy rates in three to five-star hotels was 68.7% last year, down 2.3% on from the year before. "Last month, a lot of four and five-star hotels in Hanoi, HCM City, Nha Trang and Danang City as well as high-end yachting services in Ha Long launched large promotion programmes. This just proves that they were in desperate economic difficulties," said Pham Manh Ha, from Vietnam Luxury Travel Company. Le Van Kien, Director of Travel Sense Asia admitted that his company recorded a decrease of from 5% to 8% in revenues during the recent peak tourism season, as tourists tend to demand higher quality services at lower prices. The company is also facing fierce competition with other travel firms. In order to help the situation several travel firms got together to put pressure on domestic tourism service providers to force them to lower their prices by 15%-20%, Pham Manh Ha confirmed. Mong Cai Travel Club in Quang Ninh Province said they served over 92,000 Chinese tourists in the first ten months of last year, up 46% from a year earlier but their returns were still quite modest. According to the club, Chinese travel firms sold tours to these tourists at relatively high prices, but paid their Vietnamese partners only a fraction of what they collected, for example only from VND800,000 to VND1 million (USD38.3-USD47.9) per person for a four-day and three-night Mong Cai – Ha Long – Hanoi tour. Vu The Binh, Vice Chairman of Vietnam Tourism Association said even though Chinese tourists come in large numbers, they tend not to spend much.
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Friday 25 January 2013

Flower festival, trade fair welcome Tet

Kênh du lịch Huế trang cung cấp các thông tin về dịch vụ du lịch Huế, đặc sản huế các bánh bèo , cơm hến, Bún bò Huế. Các điểm tham quan như chùa Thiên Mụ, lăng Tự Đức, Lăng Minh Mạng, Lăng Khải Định A flower festival cum trade fair honouring craft villages and high-quality agricultural produce will be held in Hanoi from January 30 to February 5 on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival (Tet). The event will be jointly organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Hanoi Farmers' Association at Vietnam Culture and Arts Exhibition Centre, No.2 Hoa Lu Street. Its opening will be broadcast live by Hanoi Radio-Television on its radio and TV channels. Vuong Duy Bien, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism cum head of the organisation board, said that the fair not only highlights the best products of craft villages but also serves people's shopping needs for Tet, the year's biggest traditional celebration. The organising board hopes this will be an annual event in the next years. Nearly 100 products made from traditional materials, 100 calligraphic works and parallel sentences for Tet will be displayed at the event. In addition, there will be 200 stalls selling quality farm produce from Hanoi's villages, such as lotus-scented tea, Ba Vi milk, Canh orange, and organic vegetables.
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Sunday 13 January 2013

Binh Thuan-an attractive destination for Russian visitors

Công ty Eagletourist chuyên cung cấp các tour du lịch giá rẻ, tour ghép đoàn miền trung, tour du lịch lào, tour du lịch campuchia, tour du lịch thái lan với giá cả rẻ nhất, dịch vụ hoàn hảo nhất. Các bạn vui lòng liện hệ hoặc book tour online để có giá tốt nhất nhé Binh Thuan is said to have been an attractive destination for Russian travelers because the number of Russian tourist arrivals to Binh Thuan has been increasing rapidly in the recent years. As of November, 2012 Binh Thuan was estimated to welcome more than 2,871,400 turns of visitors, an increase of 11.2% over the same period last year, including about 315,210 turns of overseas visitors, rose by 18% compared to the 2011's corresponding period. Among foreign visitors from Russia, Germany, China, United Kingdom, the U.S, South Korea, Australia, etc, Russian arrivals made up 47.11%. Because the peak season of winter vacation for Russian tourists to "shelter from harsh winter" is from November onwards. At the same time, Cam Ranh airport has started to receive direct flights from Russia, the number of Russian visitors to Binh Thuan has sharply increased. Currently, Mui Ne-Binh Thuan has gradually become a "Russian village" with a lot of hotels, resorts, restaurants, spa centers, gymnastic centers jointly opened by Vietnamese and Russian investors. Russian tourists prefer to travel to Binh Thuan mainly because this is an ideal destination where has several high-grade resorts known as "the capital of resorts", various delicious dishes from fresh seafood at reasonable prices. The climatic conditions here are favorable for water and extreme sports such as: windsurfing, kitesurfing, diving, etc. Moreover, Mui Ne is only 200 km from Tan Son Nhat airport (Ho Chi Minh city) and Cam Ranh airport (Khanh Hoa province). In current time, Russian tourists staying at Bamboo Village Resorts & Spa are making up more than 60% of our total customers. There are a lot of Russians coming to Mui Ne for recreation and they usually stay here from 7 to 10 days. Several visitors have come and returned to Bamboo Village resort & Spa for 8-9 times. Particularly, some travelers have ever stayed here 18 times. As annual plan, at the end of the year, the resort will organize two special Gala nights to welcome Christmas Eve (in the evening of December 24-) and New Year's Eve (on December 31 night). On these events, our visitors will join in traditional games, enjoy tasty dishes and impressive performances with Vietnamese traditional songs and dances. Most of Russian visitors usually arrive and spend long period in Mui Ne. Many of them have returned to Binh Thuan several times. According to Binh Thuan Tourism Association, the total tourism industry is joining hands to strive for the aim "Mui Ne-Binh Thuan- a destination today, tomorrow and forever". Drawing tourists to Binh Thuan for the first time is a difficult task. But it is more difficult to satisfy and attract them to come back to the locality for recreation and enjoying new experiences. Besides Mui Ne - Binh Thuan, there are a lot of competitively attractive tourist destinations in Ho Chi Minh city, Vung Tau, Nha Trang, Da Lat with each own advantages. Meanwhile, in spite of the fame of "the capital of resorts", Binh Thuan tourism is still facing many obstacles due to disadvantages in traffic (both road and air traffic). For that reason, the province needs to promote and renew its images by means of organizing international events, as well as attaching special importance to improving service quality. In recent years, Binh Thuan has hosted a lot of large-scale events such as: the international windsurfing (PWA Worldtour), international sailing festival, 1st Vietnam international hot air balloon fiesta, Mui Ne half-marathon. Otherwise, the provincial authorities have continually upgraded the traditional festivals of the locality such as: Kate festival of the Cham community, Nghinh Ong festival of the Chinese-Vietnamese people, Cau Ngu festival, lantern procession in Mid-Autumn festival, traditional boat race on Ca Ty river in Lunar New Year to be on par with other international festivals. Besides, visitors also contemplate flying sand hills in Mui Ne, Trinh Nu sand hill, Bau Ong and Bau Ba lakes in Hoa Thang commune (Bac Binh district), or the "Lying Buddha statue with more than 40 in length on the top of Ta Cu mountain, various temples and towers of the Cham ethnic minority… In addition, the resorts in Mui Ne often organize many art performances with intangible cultural features of the ethnic groups in the locality. By their own fair hands, visitors can wrap "banh chung", one of the indispensable traditional meals of Vietnamese families in Lunar New Year. Source: Binh Thuan Newspaper
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Friday 11 January 2013

Viet Nam tourism aims to receive 7.2 million international arrivals in 2013

Công ty Eagletourist chuyên cung cấp các tour du lịch giá rẻ, tour ghép đoàn miền trung, tour du lịch lào, tour du lịch campuchia, tour du lịch thái lan với giá cả rẻ nhất, dịch vụ hoàn hảo nhất. Các bạn vui lòng liện hệ hoặc book tour online để có giá tốt nhất nhé On January 4, in Ha Noi, Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) organized a conference to carry out action plan in 2013. The event had the presence of Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) Hoang Tuan Anh, Deputy Minister of MoCST Ho Anh Tuan, leaders of VNAT and VNAT's departments. In the context of economic recession in the world, in 2012, Viet Nam served 6.847 million international arrivals (increasing 9.5 % over 2011) and 32.5 million domestic tourist trippers (up 8%), gained revenue of 160,000 billion VND (up 23%). Da Nang City, Binh Thuan and Khanh Hoa provinces made breakthroughs to become important tourist destinations of the central region and the whole country. These achievements derived from developing policies, renovating administrative management, implementing promotion campaigns, linking provincial authorities and businesses, improving services… On the other hand, tourism industry still faced negative facts including robbery, ripe off, vendor, sanitation… In 2013, Viet Nam's tourism industry has set the target of serving 7.2 million international arrivals, and 35 million domestic tourists trippers – increases of 5.15 per cent and 7.69 per cent respectively over 2012, and gaining revenue of 190,000 million VND (up 18.75 per cent). Some key tasks in 2013 include: continuing to implement the Vietnam Tourism Development Strategy to 2020, vision 2030; developing regional master plans; improving the quality of tourism statistics; promoting E-marketing and developing Vietnam tourism brand associated with the logo and slogan " Vietnam – Timeless Charm"; deploying plan to attract tourists from eight key tourism markets (China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, France, Russia); developing tourism in Halong Bay and some other destinations ensuring sustainability; developing heritage tourism linking with Ha Long Bay. Speaking at the conference, Minister Hoang Tuan Anh highly praised the achievements of tourism sector and informed that in the closing speech of 6th Conference of Central Party's Executive Committee Board, Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed that "giving priority to agriculture and tourism investment". This is a great encouragement for the efforts and achievements of the tourism sector, confirming the role and position of the sector in the socio-economic development of the country. He directed, in coming time, tourism sector continues to deploy specific solutions to improve tourism quality, closely collaborate with relevant authorities to create friendly and safe tourism environment; strengthen inspection and examination; strengthen the organization and personnel of tourism sector at all levels; promotes the role of VNAT in multi-side collaboration to develop tourism…
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