Tours to Thailand continue despite rallies
By Tuong Vi - The Saigon Times Daily
HCMC – Vietnam-based travel agencies keep organizing tours to Thailand despite threats of unrests in the neighboring country due to massive rallies by the Red Shirts movement that backs former premier Thaksin Shinawatra now in exile.
Vo Tien Tan, a representative from Youth Tourist Co., told the Daily on the phone on Thursday that “tours to Thailand with our company this week will take place as usual. Next week’s tours are already sold out.”
Fiditour hosted two Thailand tours last night, with 100 guests in total. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai, Fiditour’s PR manager said the rallies had not affected tour sales.
“Twenty more tourists will take the Thailand tour on March 16, making 70 guests altogether,” she said.
Huynh Thanh Huong from Ben Thanh Tourist said the company’s tours would continue as normal for now.
“We continue our tours with more than 100 guests because our partners in Thailand are still working normally and airline companies have not canceled flights yet,” she said.
Nguyen Minh Man, PR manager of Vietravel, said: “So far, no guests have cancelled their trips. Our company and partners always update political information. If the situation becomes serious, Vietravel will tell guests to cancel their trips temporarily and advise tourists to visit another foreign country.”
The Tourism Authority of Thailand - HCMC Office told The Daily on Thursday that they would help tourists fly back to Vietnam if any trouble arose in Thailand.
Travel firms are hoping that Thailand’s security situation will soon stabilize.