Ho Chi Minh City-based V.Y.C Travel has launched a new caravan tour from Vietnam to Laos and Thailand to serve the increasing demand of tourists.
The opening will coincide with the opening of the second Mekong bridge linking Mukdahan in Thailand with Savannakhet in Laos on December 20.
The seven-day tour, which starts in Ho Chi Minh City, will bring tourists to attractions in Kontum-Pakse-Ubon, Mukdahan-Savanakhet and return to the central region of Vietnam via the Lao Bao border gate.
“This is the first time we will take tourists from Vietnam to Laos and Thailand, then bring them back to Vietnam, since the Government gave the green light to open Bo Y border gate in Kontum Province to transnational caravans,” company director Tran Xuan Hung said.
Up to now, tourists have registered the first three cars to join the tour. Tourists can register to travel with their cars or use cars of the company. Together with the cars from Vietnam, 25 cars from Thailand will also join the tour. Thai caravans will meet with Vietnamese caravans in Ubon Ratchathani to travel together. On the trip, the two groups will see the opening of the bridge, play football together, and other activities.
“We want organize the tour not for profit but for promotional purposes. I think that when the bridge opens, more caravans will enter the country,” he said.
After a caravan promotion tour linking tourist destinations in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam organized by the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism and the Ho Chi Minh City Service of Tourism, the company has six more groups of 245 caravan tourists traveling via the route.
“Our company is preparing for the future, and when transportation rules open, VYC will arrange caravan tours entering Vietnam via Moc Bai border gate and exiting at Lao Bao,” Hung added.
Caravan is a new model of tourism in Vietnam. The communist country, Thailand and Cambodia have jointly organized tours of this kind.
In the first eleven months of this year, Vietnam welcomed around 140,500 tourists from Laos and Thailand.
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