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Vung Tau: stabilizing tourism service price on National Day holiday.

Mr. Ho Van Nien, the Vice Chairman of the Ba Ria – Vung Tau People’s Committe, in a meeting on August 30, directed functional provincial Departments, representatives from vestige sites to stabilize the tourism service prices and tour prices on the National Day occasion.

Addressing at the meeting, Mr. Ho Van Nien required functional authorities to focus on monitoring accommodation and catering service price at tourist attractions. Accordingly, all tourism business operations violating the regulations will be strictly fined. In addition, food hygiene standards, traffic safety, and tourist insurance should regularly be under control.

According to a report of the provincial Department of Finance, the price stabilization focuses on such categories as catering service, sea tourism services (life saver, umbrella, bench hiring, vehicles keeping, and fresh water bathing services…), hotels price, and tourist transporting service. Authorized bodies will monitor quoted prices and selling prices of local business operators, carry out investigation in case of abnormal price soaring… The stabilizing operation will be from August 31 to September 10, 2010.
Source: Ba Ria Vung Tau Newspaper, translated by Thanh Thuy -TITC