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Vietnam’s tourism industry may lose home game (15/11)
06/08/2010 - 146 Lượt xem
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According
to representatives of some reputed travel companies in
“In
the near future, local travel firms will have access to many markets. Foreign
visitors may take initiative in going to
Director
of the Saigontourist Vo Anh Tai shared the same viewpoint, saying that
international friends would have a new oulook on Vietnam through discovering
the country’s world natural heritage sites, natural landscapes, unique culture,
economic and politic stability, and the hospitality of Vietnamese people, not
only their heroicness in fighting aggressors.
The risk to
lose at home
They
are happy to have opportunities to cooperate with big partners and expand
markets, but domestic travel companies are also worried about the fierce
competition in the near future.
Fiditour’s
Marketing Manager Tran Tuong Huy said that sooner or later foreign companies
would have representatives in
Moreover,
foreign travel companies can also attract Vietnamese visitors. “They are very
professional so they can diminish emerging expenses to lower tour prices. We
don’t exclude the possibility that they will attract even local travelers once
they are familiar with the Vietnamese market,” Mr Huy said.
Vietravel
General Director Nguyen Quoc Ky warned that Vietnamese travel firms may lose
their qualified staff if they didn’t implement clear policies.
He
said that most Vietnamese travel companies have not paid due attention to
learning local laws and related international rules and that this would be a
weakness of local firms when they operated under the legal framework of the
WTO.
“Playing
in a big playground without knowledge about the rules of the game may bring
about risks,” he emphasised.
Representatives
of travel firms also accepted that their human resources were mainly trained
locally and didn’t meet the standards of cooperation and standardisation of big
travel groups.
Making plans
for the new period
Local
travel firms agreed that to take advantage of WTO membership and limit risks in
competition, local firms must seek to keep their domestic market shares and be
ready to cooperate with big groups.
Saigontourist
Director Vo Anh Tai revealed that his company had worked out a development policy
in 2003 for when
“Choosing
partners is likely choosing friends. The brand is the commitment of product
quality, which proves the proper manner in business of each enterprise. When
foreign companies come to
Saigontourist
has participated in many overseas tourism fairs to survey and seek partners and
effective tour monitoring technology. The company is determined to focus on
high and medium-grade customers because these kinds of travelers have brought
high revenue for Saigontourist since 2005.
Vietravel
aims to expand its distribution network by opening many branches in regional
countries. It has just opened a representative office in
For
Fiditour, it will concentrate on potential markets such as