Tour operators expect a noticeable increase in demand for tours to Vietnam after the launch of Aeroflot’s direct flight to Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam is gaining popularity among Russian tourists. Despite the lack of direct flights to the country, for a number of tour operators sales of tours for the end of autumn and the New Year holidays have increased significantly compared to last year.

The tour operator Fun&Sun has started selling package tours from Moscow to Vietnam for the winter season. The block flight program to Nha Trang is scheduled from November 25, 2023 to March 17, 2024.

From August 15, Russian tourists will be able to stay in Vietnamese resorts for up to 45 days without obtaining a visa. The innovation increases the existing visa-free travel by 3 times.

The tour operator Fun&Sun has offered for sale package tours with a flight to Nha Trang from Moscow and combined excursion tours from Irkutsk: Hanoi - Halong - Nha Trang.

The tour operator Pegas Touristik started selling package tours to the popular Vietnamese resort of Nha Trang on connecting flights from Moscow. On departures from Moscow to Tashkent and back, the package tour includes flights on Utair wings. Aeroflot performs flights from Moscow to Almaty and Astana and back.

Tourists in the summer and autumn seasons will be able to make holidays in Vietnam at affordable prices. The new block program of Paks to Nha Trang starts on May 30 and will last until the end of October. The duration of all tours designed for block transportation is 10 nights.

This year, 1,5 million tourists have holidays with the tour operator Fun&Sun. By the end of 2023, the company plans to send 2,5 million tourists.

The tour operator Fun&Sun has announced the launch of a flight program to the Vietnamese resort of Nha Trang (Cam Ranh Airport). The program involves connecting flights of Scat airline from Moscow.

Programs to Nha Trang from Anex Tour and Pegas Touristik will be arranged on the flights of VietJet Air low-cost airline and will start from Almaty. The start of the flight program is scheduled for October 26.

On March 15, 2022, Vietnam adopted Decree No. 32 / NQ-CP, exempting citizens of 13 countries from the obligation to issue visas. This list includes Russia and Belarus.

Russia resumed flights with Bali from March 14

Cambodia is hosting the 40th ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) from January 16 to 22, 2022 at Sokha Beach Resort, Sihancouville, the country's main seaport and beach resort located on the shores of the Gulf of Thailand.

Russian vaccinated tourists arriving in Vietnam (Nha Trang resort) will have no longer to undergo a mandatory weekly quarantine at the hotel.

The tour operator Anex Tour announced the launching of a flight program to Vietnam in cooperation with its strategic partner - Azur air. Two weekly flights are planned from December 22 to March 16, 2022, on the route Moscow - Nha Trang.

The Vietnamese resort island Phu Quoc to be opened for tourists according to the plan - from the beginning of October. But in any case, even with a favorable development of the situation, a large demand is unlikely.

Authorities in the Vietnamese province of Kien Giang said fully vaccinated Russian travelers would be the first to be allowed to come to the island.

Russia will resume flights to Vietnam, India, Finland and Qatar on January 27, 2021, with several flights per week.

Tour operators do not hope that the winter season will go smoothly, since countries, popular among Russians, such as Thailand and Vietnam, do not plan to open in 2020.

Since March 23, Russia has introduced new time restrictions on flights to countries where cases of new coronavirus infection have been identified.

The national air carrier of Vietnam has temporarily suspended services to Russia, France, Malaysia, and Taiwan in response to the spread of the coronavirus and travel restrictions imposed by countries and regions around the world.

Aeroflot reduces the number of flights to China, South Korea, Vietnam and Italy in March due to lower demand from passengers, the company said.

In 2019, 646,5 thousand citizens of the Russian Federation visited the country, which is 6,6% more than in 2018. Russia confidently enters the TOP 5 source markets of Vietnam.

The travel service Tutu.ru analyzed all air tickets, sold from any city in Russia, with travel dates from December 1, 2019 to March 1, 2020 and compiled a rating of destinations that are most popular.

The tour operator Anex Tour announced the opening of sales of a new destination with direct charter transportation in Vietnam - Danang. Charter flights of Azur air will be operated from three cities of Russia.