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Bridge – A lot of opportunities have
been missed just because of the complicated procedures. Meanwhile, travel firms
need to react quickly to any changes in the world.
In
order to survive and develop, Vietnamese travel firms have to compete fiercely
with foreign ones. And in order to lure more foreigners to Vietnam, they need
to quickly get adapted to the new circumstances.
Nguyen
Van Tran, General Director of Apex Vietnam, said that in 2011, Japan was
seriously devastated by tsunami and earthquake. After the natural calamities, a
lot of people have the demand to go traveling to relax and treat the mental
trauma.
After
realizing the demand, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines
immediately took actions to attract the potential travelers by waving entry
visa for Japanese travelers for 90 days. With the new policy, travelers do not
have to spend much time to follow entry-exit procedures and can go immediately
to resorts.
At that
time, Apex Vietnam sent a dispatch to the Vietnam National Administration of
Tourism (VNAT), requesting to apply a new policy on visa waving for 90 days, so
that Vietnamese travelers could start their plan to receive the Japanese
travelers. However, Apex has not received any replies from the watchdog
agencies so far.
Tran
said that VNAT should set up a new division in charge of analyzing the
socio-economic changes and the new demands of people in other countries in the
world, so that Vietnam can lay down timely policies to satisfy the urgent
demands of international travelers.
Huynh
Ngoc Van, Director of the HCM City War Evidence Museum, said that Vietnam has
everything needed to develop the “tourism for peace”. However, the tours of
this kind have not been paid attention by domestic travelers.
While
Vietnamese travel firms still keep indifferent to the potential tourism
products, foreign travel firms have been regularly organizing the tours for
peace They know Vietnam is a wonderful destination for these tours, because
Vietnam is the country with stories about heroism, war invalids, martyrs, Agent
Orange victims, who have been trying to overcome difficulties to live, and the
stories about Vietnamese heroic mothers.
According
to Van, in 2007, the museum received 380,000 domestic and foreign visitors. The
figure rose to 660,000 in 2011, including 450,000 foreign travelers.
People
think that historical vestiges are not attractive destinations and that
visitors would not return for the second time. However, Van has affirmed she
can see the people who came to the museum 6-8 times. When they came there for
first time, they just did the sightseeing. When they return the next time, they
want to communicate with the war witnesses. Some visitors asked to organize the
trips to visit the people who lost relatives in the war or the visits to Agent
Orange victims.
Especially,
the travelers are not too choosy about accommodations, and they would accept
inconvenience to obtain their goals.
Also
according to Van, in July and August, the time when travel firms consider the
low tourism season, the museum can attract a lot of visitors, especially the
ones who book the visits on July 27, the Vietnamese Martyrs and Wounded
Soldiers Day and August 10, the Agent Orange Victims’ Day. The travelers would
enjoy the tours to visit the families of revolutionary martyrs, to Con Dao
Island, where revolutionary soldiers were jailed and to Phu Quoc island
together with the war witnesses.
Source:
SGTT
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