First 300 Russian tourists visit Ho Chi Minh City via air charter
First 300 Russian tourists visit Ho Chi Minh City via air charter
Ho Chi Minh City received Tuesday the first-ever group of Russian tourists to arrive in the city on a chartered aircraft, the first in a series of flights scheduled until April next year.
The Nordwind Airlines flight N4 2921 departed from the Russian city of Ekaterinburg and arrived safely at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the afternoon, with 287 holidaymakers onboard the Boeing 777-600 aircraft.
The flight was chartered by Anh Duong Tourist Company.
After touring Ho Chi Minh City, 186 of the tourists will fly to Phu Quoc Island, a famed resort island in the southern province of Kien Giang, while the remaining 101 travelers will spend a week in Phan Thiet, a resort city 200km east of the southern megacity, according to Anh Duong chairwoman Hoang Thi Phong Thu.
From now to April 30, 2015, Anh Duong will bring tourists from the Russian cities of Ekaterinburg, Moscow, Irkutsk, and Krasnoyarsk to the southern Vietnamese hub via charter flights on a weekly basis.
The holidaymakers will be transported to Phu Quoc or Phan Thiet for a week-long retreat, Thu said.
This is the first chartered aircraft to bring Russian tourists to Ho Chi Minh City, a representative from the city’s newly-established tourism department said.
The southern metropolis welcomed around 426,576 international tourists in October alone, according to the tourism department.
Tourists traveling by air accounted for 81 percent, or 345,576, of these travelers.
Total international arrivals to the city in the Jan-Oct period rose 8 percent from the same period last year to 3.5 million, according to the department.
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