The number of tourists booking foreign tours has increased sharply

At some travel agencies in Ho Chi Minh City, the number of tourists researching and booking foreign tours has rebounded. Tourism abroad is busier, which is expected to make businesses recover.

Dubai – Abu Dhabi 5 days, 4 nights is a trip Mr. Huy (District 5, Ho Chi Minh City) will go with his family in mid-April. In addition to the mandatory conditions such as full vaccination, negative test, fast approval time, simple entry regulations are what interests him.

“During the epidemic season, I have traveled in the country a lot, like Phu Quoc, Nha Trang, Da Lat and Hanoi, so now I decided to go on a foreign tour. I think the current price is the best only Dubai tour, the second is Getting a visa is also easy, just show your passport and take a 4×6 photo and submit it, you can go, “said Nguyen Tran Hoang Huy.

At some travel agencies in Ho Chi Minh City, the number of tourists researching and booking foreign tours has rebounded. (Illustration image – Photo: Dan Tri)

Dubai and Thailand are also two destinations Vietravel Tourism Company recorded the largest number of registered visitors. Every week, each country will have 2 trips and the occupancy rate always reaches 100%. However, the resumption of foreign tours is currently only at an exploratory level and focuses on traditional markets. As for the tour to Europe, the US… it is expected that by the end of April, businesses can deploy.

“In the last week of March and some countries that took the landmark from the beginning of April, they gradually abandoned the requirements for PCR testing, even some countries abandoned the rapid test. Conditions on disease prevention, for Countries as well as Vietnam are gradually being relaxed and gradually returning to the time before the epidemic,” said Mr. Tran Doan The Duy, General Director of Vietravel Tourism Company.

Not all countries have abandoned testing procedures, though. Travel company Ucan Travel plans to sell tours back from the beginning of April, the destination is Southeast Asian countries. The characteristics of these tours are usually less than 7 days, so the fact that some countries require re-testing on the 5th day or procedures have many changes in a short time, leaving businesses in a passive position.

“For the outbound customer market, including inbound, those policies are usually sold by companies to customers first. Agreements with customers have also been committed in advance, but suddenly that regulation changes. it will make it difficult for businesses to solve problems with customers as well as rearrange services,” said Ho Minh Tong, director of Ucan Travel.

The cost of testing both on and off trips, isolation problems, increased airfares… are also the reasons why tour prices abroad are currently 20-50% higher than before the epidemic. Therefore, businesses say, this is just the start-up phase and the number of visitors will increase dramatically from the summer onwards.

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