Increasing flights and opening new routes is what many travel and tourism businesses in Can Tho as well as provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta (Mekong Delta) have been looking forward to since COVID-19.
Previously, in events and programs on tourism development in Can Tho in particular and the Mekong Delta in general, experts and businesses also made proposals to reconnect flights at Can Tho International Airport through through coordination with airlines.
Because in recent times, the exploitation of flight routes has been limited, not suitable for people's travel needs, and has become a "bottleneck" affecting the connection of tours, routes, and tourism development. Of the area.
In fact, although it is called Can Tho International Airport, there are absolutely no international flights maintained at this place until now. The number of domestic flights from Can Tho connecting regions is still low.
Sharing with Lao Dong Newspaper, Ms. Le Dinh Minh Thy - Director of Vietravel Can Tho branch - said that tourism must be associated with transportation infrastructure and especially airways, because this is a means of transport. fastest connection today.
“From a travel business perspective, we strongly support increasing flights at Can Tho International Airport. The development of air routes means that the number of tourists coming to localities through travel agencies will certainly increase," Ms. Thy said.
According to Ms. Thy, currently, Can Tho has fixed routes Can Tho - Hanoi and Can Tho - Da Nang. The company has designed interline tour products from the North to the Central region and to visit the provinces, neighboring city.
“If there are now more flights from Can Tho to other provinces and cities, travel businesses will start building products connecting to those points, giving customers more new itineraries, instead of Mainly the North and Central regions like today," Ms. Thy said excitedly.
According to the Mekong Delta Tourism Association, in the first 6 months of 2024, tourism business activities in the Mekong Delta region have progressed quite well. Of which, the total number of visitors to the Mekong Delta is estimated at nearly 30 million, an increase of 11.2% over the same period in 2023. Total tourism revenue is 34,871,782 billion VND, up 33.02% over the same period in 2023.
From the results achieved, the Mekong Delta Tourism Association has oriented many solutions to accelerate effective tourism development in the last 6 months of the year.
Director of Vietravel Can Tho branch said that in the first 6 months of 2024, her business in Can Tho achieved a growth in visitors of over 20% compared to 2023. This number shows that the business is implementing on schedule. The plan is equivalent to the development momentum of 2019 (before the COVID-19 epidemic).
“In the last 6 months of the year, businesses expect a breakthrough of 10-15% compared to 2019, through continuing to promote autumn tourism products in Korea, China... Especially launch many quality products and services if new domestic and international routes are opened at Can Tho International Airport in the near future," Ms. Thy expected.
