Tet boom for Vietnam agents
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Ho Chi Minh City tour agents have been scrambling to book domestic and foreign tours to take advantage of a six-day Tet (Lunar New Year) that will begin on February 6.
VietNamNet Bridge reported that the number of bookings for tours offered by major companies like Saigontourist, Vietravel and Fiditour have doubled over last year.
Many tours have been fully booked, and demand has increased prices by 20 to 30%. “Customers are still coming but we must turn them away,” Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai, an official of Fiditour, was quote saying.
The agency usually receives 20-30 customers for a group tour, but for Tet the number has risen to 40 or 50, Mai was quoted saying.
Saigontourist had already closed bookings for its tours while Vietravel had reportedly booked more than 8,000 customers, half of whom bought foreign tours.
Besides familiar favourites such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, HCM City travel companies were offering many tours to Egypt, Japan, Australia and South Africa.
The report said many people had bought tours to Israel and Croatia, organised for the first time by Carnival Travel Company.
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