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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Travel Vietnam: Suffering from the driver to the toilet

Not only the poverty of products and services, tourists are fed up with making travel unprofessional, toilet and all the sleazy "extortion" of some drivers, guides.
Recently, the number of international visitors to Vietnam slipping brake, the tourism industry has a number of measures such as visa exemptions for some countries, increase advertising ... But to revive the tourism sector must be from the small things Most picked as toilets, trash service and attitude of the driver and guide ...
A few days ago, at a meeting concerning tourism in Can Tho City, many participants have complained about the lack of unique tourism products to serve tourists. Mekong Tourism has potential, hick, fruit four seasons but the tourism product is too poor. Visitors to 1-2 days is ... do not know where to go. As in Can Tho, the most famous is the Cai Rang floating market, but then going to pull the visitors to stay in the unknown!
The Mekong Delta has potential but tourism product is quite poor. Photo: T.Nguyen
Ms. Le Chinh, living in Can Tho City, said the last rites 30-4, friends sister from Hanoi to play and visit the floating markets but "stunned" when tight guillotine. Rental boat floating market on weekdays only VND300,000 - VND400,000 no visitors, holiday boat owners to raise prices up 1.8 million / boat 12 seats and 3 million / boat carrying 30 tourists ... "From translation Rental boat come into the orchard, but the price has skyrocketed my friends say go until 2 days before, did not know what else to discover "- Ms. Le Chinh confided.
Also MD, approximately one week before, the agency she Thanh Tam (live in District 9, HCMC) has organized outings in Tien Giang and put the car 29 seats from a tour company well known. After negotiating the price and the time goes on, time to pay, the driver complained that must go out and hire expensive inn, accommodation hard to not want to get ... 500,000 coins for more from her group Tam . Listen to the driver grumbled, he finally had to completely delegation 1 million called fostering more.
Also related to the driver and tour guide, about 3 months ago, the writer himself was taking a tour exploring the North East and West of a travel company. He led a delegation to tour guide nearly ten years of experience and a driver uncle also nearly Nget 10 year driving for the tourist group to the northern mountainous province.
Typically, the guide will be the deciding schedules, departure times each day for guests and drivers only driving task. Yet once, when in Cao Bang (that day tour to Ban Gioc Waterfall) unexpected driver and verbal instructions for inconsistency hours. Go at lunch, in front of 20 guests, drivers and guides ... bicker, even swearing and no one looked at the face one. "It is incomprehensible! Tourism, services to treat each other but so before the tourists "- a member of the delegation pressing.
However, drivers extortion thing and not professional tour guides are not in the minority. But new toilet phobia of tourists both domestic and foreign.
Even the well-known tourist destination, many people do not dare to go to the toilet, just look for the new hotel to dare, "said venting elected". Just in time to tour East Northwest 3 months ago, when the delegation to explore Nguom Clams (Cao Bang) at the foot of the mountain there is one toilet but smelled from far no one dares to go.
"If not here, then go to the toilet all the way on the inside than 1km and over 1km up again nor see any toilet. As a result, some of the crew must wear a mask or nose to the toilet. And yet, the way in both Nguom Ngao kilometers long, with many bars to drink, fruit and makeshift food but there was no trash or littering public places "- Phuong Thao (live Tan Binh) , a member of the delegation, including bored.
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