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Old November 28th, 2009, 05:32 PM posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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Thai tourism could be our teacher
by Nguyen Van My*

My prejudice against Thailand’s tourism sector has been transformed
into admiration after participating in a recent survey of the
country’s travel industry. I used to think that Thai tourism
authorities were only good at organizing sex tours or shopping trips.
But now I know their entire tourism system is a machine superior to
most others in the region.

In Thailand, tourism is considered an industry with strict rules and
regulations. In Vietnam, it is considered part of the service sector
and anyone can open up a travel company and pretty much do whatever
they want. That policy makes for a lot of lazy and substandard tour
operators.

Vietnam Administration of Tourism only plays a role as a consultant to
the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, while the Thailand
Administration of Tourism (TAT) operates directly under the Prime
Minister. TAT pays the salaries at all city and provincial tourism
departments, implements promotional campaigns and provides all major
staff positions for the Thailand National Tourism Committee headed by
the Prime Minister himself. The agency also has offices in several
countries and the offices perform a variety of useful duties.

The TAT office in Ho Chi Minh City, for example, employs
Vietnamese-speaking Thai staff and Thai-speaking Vietnamese staff.
They oversee Thai travel firms’ operations in HCMC and invite local
tour agencies on fact-finding tours. They always cover the entire cost
of the tours.

Vietnam has a traditional saying: "Learning from a teacher is not as
good as learning from a friend."
The saying is true because it’s not always easy to find a good
teacher. But we’ve got a friend in Thailand in our own backyard. We’ve
been left in the dust as far as the tourism race is concerned, but
it’s not too late to learn from Thailand and develop Vietnamese
tourism beyond the beach and city tours that dominate the travel
industry in our country.

* The writer is director of Lua Viet Tour Company based in Ho Chi Minh
City

source:
http://www.thanhniennews.com/comment...1&newsid=53901
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If any western tourist had still some doubt about the way he's seen by
tourism professionals in this region, this article should cool him/her
off!!!
Another interesting thing about the above tour operator's comment is
the smell of centuries-old animosity between Asean countries he's
unable to mask.

:-(
Mort
 




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