VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese travel firms announced that no tour will be organized to Thailand until June or July.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese travel firms announced that no tour will be organized to Thailand until June or July. Vietnamese travelers are still afraid of political unrest in the country.

Fearing chaos, Vietnamese travelers cancel tours to Thailand

Traveling from HCMC to Cambodia and Thailand by bus

Thai Red shirts pour blood in front of Gov’t House

Vietnamese travelers are still afraid of political unrest in Thailand.

Lam Tu Khoi, Deputy Head of the Outbound Tourism Division under Saigontourist, said that the firm plans to organize one tour every two days as of early the next month. Khoi also said that the firm will send staffs to Bangkok to explore the situation, after the representative of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in Vietnam announced that the political situation in the country has been stabilized and can ensure security for travelers.

The agency has not made any recommendations concerning if travel firms should resume tours to Thailand at this moment or not.

Representatives of Fiditour, Vietravel, TST Tourist, Ben Thanh Tourist and HanoiRedtours all said that they will only resume tours to Thailand after they have more information about the political situation in Thailand.

Meanwhile, Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, Deputy Director of Vietnamtourism in Hanoi, said that her firm will not dare to organize tours to Thailand in June, saying that tours would be resumed only in July, and only if the situation gets better.

The political uncertainties in Thailand have forced thousands of Vietnamese travelers to cancel tours to the country. Pichai Raktasinha, TAT Director in HCM City, said that it is estimated that the number of Vietnamese travelers to Thailand has decreased by 50 percent in comparison with the previous year.

Phuong Ha