Vietnamese tourism companies have cooperated with airlines to offer attractive tour packages to meet the increasing travel demand on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.
The prospect of restarting summer tourism this year, and once again reviving the flagging tourism industry, has largely been based on the immense efforts to have successfully contained the coronavirus in Vietnam. Now many airlines and railways are getting ready to launch exciting summer packages to once again welcome a flow of travellers.
Local airlines have initiated plans to restore the entire domestic flight network in June to meet the travel demand of passengers as the country moves past the novel coronavirus period.
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has notified Vietnamese airlines that seat distancing and restrictions on passenger numbers are to be abolished from 00:00 on May 7.
Many economic industries have suffered heavy losses due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; however, several agencies and enterprises have dynamically promoted new business methods to stimulate consumers to make purchases, gaining high sales.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has suggested to the Ministry of Transport that additional air routes could be operated between April 23 and April 30, including 20 flights per day running on the Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City route.
Airlines have added more seats and air tickets prices are increasing as the Tet holiday approaches.
The newest carrier Bamboo Airways on-time performance rate reached 93.9% in the first ten months of this year, the highest among domestic airlines.
Domestic airlines are planning to launch new routes and operate additional flights to meet growing demand during the peak summer travel season.
Hundreds of discount tickets from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok, Hong Kong and Los Angeles have been offered in May.
A promotional campaign has been launched by the two carriers Vietjet Air and Vietnam Airlines, as well as Sai Gon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company, to lure tourists to Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city and southern localities on off-peak flights and trains during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday 2017.
A large number of airlines operating in Viet Nam have released a whole bunch of last-minute sale fares for travel this TET holiday.