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Even though travel companies are offering huge promotions and discounts to lure tourists, there continues to be a decrease in the number of visitors since Reunification Day on April 30 and Labor Day on May 1 throughout summer and even during the coming National Day holidays.
Travel enterprises have joined hands with airlines, hotels and tourist services across the country to offer attractive promotions to holiday makers, but people seem to have tightened spending in these present economic times and are travelling less.
Some companies have received a number of bookings, almost 60 percent more as compared with the same period last year. However, only specific tours like those to Phu Quoc, Con Dao and Phan Thiet run by Saigon Tourist Travel Company, are seeing large numbers of visitors.
In fact, there are a large number of tourists travelling during the National Day holidays but these trips are being privately arranged instead of through travel companies.
The coming National Day holidays will last for three days and travel firms have promoted short distance tours from two to four days to Phu Quoc, Con Dao, Phan Thiet, Phu yen, Nha Trang , Da Lat and other Mekong Delta provinces.
The first ‘Vietnam International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta’ will be held in Phan Thiet, in the coastal province of Binh Thuan, from August 29-September 3, and is expected to attract a large number of visitors. Many side-activities such as kite flying, parachuting, and art shows will take place during the Fiesta.
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