Russian travel firms survey province

Representatives of 14 Russian travel companies wrapped up a survey tour of tourism facilities in Binh Thuan Province’s Phan Thiet City last Sunday. According to the Binh Thuan Tourism Association, the organiser of the trip, Russian tourists, account for 30 per cent of international visitors to Binh Thuan, and often have long stays at seaside resorts in Phan Thiet.
The province received 220,000 tourists in April, bringing the total number of tourists to the province in the first four months of 2010 to 832,000, a year-on-year increase of 13.4 per cent. Nearly 130,000 of them were foreign visitors.