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Tourism agency warns against âvaccine toursâ 12:14 | 27/05/2021
The HCM City Tourism Department has ordered travel firms to suspend âvaccine toursâ to the US due to possible hidden costs and the risk of no return flights.
An ad about vaccine tours notes that only one-way tickets are provided. The HCM City Tourism Department has warned the public against such tours due to possible hidden costs and a risk of no return flights. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City - The HCM City Tourism Department has ordered travel firms to suspend âvaccine toursâ to the US due to possible hidden costs and the risk of no return flights.
Tourism agency warns against ‘vaccine tours’ The HCM City Tourism Department has ordered travel firms to suspend “vaccine tours” to the US due to possible hidden costs and the risk of no return flights.
Travel operators have been selling “vaccine tours” which provide only one-way tickets. There is no information about the return ticket on the ads, and other features remain unclear, according to the department.
Speaking at a recent meeting with tour operators, Nguyen Quy Phuong, director of the Tourism Department under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, said people must be careful before booking the tours.
“The vaccine tours are costly and only offer one-way tickets, and information regarding vaccinations is vague and there is no guarantee that the customer’s needs will be met.”
HCMC tourism department halts Covid vaccine tours to US
By Nguyen Quy May 25, 2021 | 11:41 am GMT+7
A boy receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on May 13, 2021. Photo by AFP.
The HCMC Department of Tourism has instructed travel companies to suspend vaccine tours to the U.S. until the end of the year.
At a meeting with the department on Monday, tour operators agreed to stop advertising the tour on social media and wait until early 2022 to see how the pandemic situation develops.
The department has stepped in after some travel companies launched coronavirus vaccine tours to the U.S. but with one-way tickets and without clear information about the return.