By The Business Desk in Phnom Penh/
Rasmei Kampuchea | ANN
Phnom Penh (Rasmei Kampuchea/ANN) - A 20-percent hike in Vietnam's domestic airfares this week means that tours to central Vietnam by people living in Ho Chi Minh City now cost about the same as tours to Cambodia, Tuoi Tre News reported.
The report said the hike in airfares and local tour prices had led to a "ridiculous state where domestic tours are more expensive than foreign ones.
The hike which takes effect this week will negatively hurt the domestic tourism industry that is already suffering from bad reputation with poor service, pollution, peddling, and robberies," it added."Under the current price quotations, tourists from Ho Chi Minh City will find it more expensive to have a holiday in the north of Vietnam than in neighboring countries like Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, assuming similar service quality. For tours to Cambodia (Siem Reap - Sihanoukville - Phnom Penh), it is roughly as costly as tours to central Vietnam (Hue, Da Nang, Hoi An)."
The report added that some tour operators had already stopped taking bookings for air tours to destinations in southern Vietnam, notably the islands of Con Dao and Phu Quoc, which is located near Kep in Cambodia.
Vietnam is already Cambodia's largest source of tourist arrivals.
Phnom Penh (Rasmei Kampuchea/ANN) - A 20-percent hike in Vietnam's domestic airfares this week means that tours to central Vietnam by people living in Ho Chi Minh City now cost about the same as tours to Cambodia, Tuoi Tre News reported.
The report said the hike in airfares and local tour prices had led to a "ridiculous state where domestic tours are more expensive than foreign ones.
The hike which takes effect this week will negatively hurt the domestic tourism industry that is already suffering from bad reputation with poor service, pollution, peddling, and robberies," it added."Under the current price quotations, tourists from Ho Chi Minh City will find it more expensive to have a holiday in the north of Vietnam than in neighboring countries like Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, assuming similar service quality. For tours to Cambodia (Siem Reap - Sihanoukville - Phnom Penh), it is roughly as costly as tours to central Vietnam (Hue, Da Nang, Hoi An)."
The report added that some tour operators had already stopped taking bookings for air tours to destinations in southern Vietnam, notably the islands of Con Dao and Phu Quoc, which is located near Kep in Cambodia.
Vietnam is already Cambodia's largest source of tourist arrivals.
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