More tourist boat to be cruised along Mekong River

Travelling along Mekong River from Laos and Cambodia to Mekong Delta in Vietnam has been favored by tourists, especially international visitors since it appeared to attract a huge number of travellers. Compared to other kinds of travel such as by train or by buses, this is truly costly, but worth the additional price passengers have to pay. The reason is that travelling by boat offers unique experience to passengers as well as chances to fully admire various allured natural sceneries along two banks of Mekong River.

 

Therefore, many tourist boat agencies operating on Mekong River is planning to increase the number of ships and trips along this river in 2012. Example from Pandaw Company, one of suppliers for travelling boat along Mekong River, this company intends to enlarge their fleet to 10 cruises and half of it is spent for route Ho Chi Minh City – Angkor Watt. Other agencies such as Indochina Sails or Transmekong also have similar ambition to sufficiently exploit this potential tour.

 

Besides trips to Ho Chi Minh City, some agencies also open more trips to other destinations along the river, especially parts from Tien Giang Province of Vietnam to Cambodia.

 

 

Pandaw Cruise on Mekong River

 

This is a good sign for development of tourism industry in Mekong River Delta in particular and Vietnam in general, especially when there are numerous negative predictions about recession in tourism industry due to global economic crisis. This also demonstrates that Vietnam is still a potential market for exploitation tourism industry.