 Tourists visit the Scores of local tourists reportedly cancelled trips to Nguyen Minh Man, vice director of Vietravel company in Ho Chi Minh City, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday that over the past few days their customers have “continually” canceled bookings for Chinese tours, or changed their destinations to Japan and South Korea. Among those who wanted to switch to Other travel firms in the city have described similar blowback, the newspaper reported. Tran Van Long, director general of Viet Media Travel Company, said the number of bookings for Chinese tours at his company has “significantly” decreased; customers are cancelling tours every day. The tensions between Vietnam and China resurfaced last week when the state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation moved a US$-1billion oil rig into position in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone off the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands. Vietnamese officials and scholars have condemned Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Sunday lambasted Thousands of Vietnamese citizens took to the streets in Tu Quy Thanh, director of Lien Bang Travel Company, expressed concerns that if the situation continues to worsen, tourism will suffer this summer – the number of customers will decrease and companies will lose on money they've already spent planning and promoting tours. According to Thanh, the recent trouble came just as interest in outbound travel to In May of 2011, Chinese marine surveillance vessels entered Vietnamese waters and cut exploratory cables on the Binh Minh 02--a ship from the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam). The incident led to a major drop in sales of Chinese tours despite discounts offered by local operators and their Chinese partners, Tuoi Tre reported. In the meantime, representatives from airlines operating flights from HCMC to Chinese cities told the newspaper that many Vietnamese passengers have canceled tickets over the past few days. Le Truong Giang, the spokesman for the state-run Vietnam Airline, said his company is closely supervising the situation. |
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