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Vietnam Open Tour News & EventsTUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER, 2009 |
 Cheap priced tours to aid domestic tourism
Thung Lung Vang ecological tourist site in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong attracts many domestic tourists The airline is providing the discount for domestic tours as a response to Vietnam National Administration of Tourism’s domestic tourist stimulation program at the beginning of 2009. The airfare discount has been considered an unheard-of break through in the history of country’s aviation industry. A five day and four night tour from HCMC to Northern provinces, which had earlier cost between VND8million and 9 million, has fallen to VND5 to 6 million. Companies have still met difficulties with some conditions by VNA. Tran The Dung, deputy director of The He Tre Tourist Company in HCMC said that to get cheap tickets, his company has to gather at least ten tourists for a tour. The promotion is also going to end by the end of September. Companies are worried that the number of customers will fall when prices return to the old tour prices, a rise of 30 to 40 percent. Tourist companies have proposed that VNA lengthen the program until the end of the year. VNA has not yet responded to this proposal. However, it has announced that the airline will cut ticket prices by 60 to 70 percent for domestic and international routes from October 1 to January 31 next year. Domestic tourist stimulation According to some officials from the UN’s World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) at a seminar recently held in HCMC to develop Vietnam tourism in the global financial crisis, the number of international tourists arriving in Vietnam in the beginning months of the year saw the biggest reduction among ASEAN countries. To make up for the reduction of international visitors, the country should focus on domestic customers. The government should have longer lasting stimulus policies, with airlines always providing some form of promotion and tourist companies diversifying tourist services to develop domestic tourism. VietNamNet/SGGPTurquoise tranquility
Modestly flowing through the famous Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, in Quang Binh Province, is an amazing gift of nature called Nuoc Mooc Creek. Flowing from a backdrop of limestone peaks to the Chay River, Nuoc Mooc Creek is born in a shaded pool formed by large blocks of patterned marble. The water spills down from the pool to create a waterfall whose gentle mist casts a cooling spell across the valley. Birdsong fills the air. There’s an inviting track down to the creek that was paid for by Germany and the local residents as part of a project named “Nature Conservation and the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang Region.” The main objective of the project, which has a budget of 17.6 million euros (US$25 million), is to help the local people improve their standard of living without harming the natural landscape by giving them cheap loans and training them to run tourist services. The project is scheduled to last until 2015. When the 30 hectares around Nuoc Mooc was being established as a tourist site, the administrators calculated there would be a thousand visitors a day on average. Little did they realize how popular it would become. Already this year an average of 1,800 tourists per day have come to enjoy the scenery and wildlife and learn about the local flora, fauna and history from the park’s tour guides. Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is listed as one of the world’s top 200 centers of biodiversity and boasts two bird sanctuaries and more than 2,600 species of wildlife, including 116 plant species and 129 animal species at danger of extinction in Vietnam and indeed the world. VietNamNet/Thanh Nien
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