Vietnam tourists eye Palau as newest destination
Koror- A low-cost airline company based in Vietnam is going to open a direct flight from Ho Chi Minh to Palau starting September 20.
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Palau will be the newest destination for the Vietjet Air, an airline company servicing various destinations such as Cambodia, Hong Kong, and Japan, among others.
It will offer two flights a week to Palau every Tuesday and Friday with its 185-seater Airbus 320 aircraft.
The flight will only take about four hours from Ho Chi Minh to Koror and price for a two-way economy ticket is currently pegged at $1,700.Vietnamese businessman Eric Nguyen, who helps bring the airline to Palau, expressed optimism that the newly-opened route will attract some of the millions of outbound Vietnamese tourists that visit different destinations every year.
The ASEAN Travel statistics revealed that there were a total of 8.6 million outbound tourists from Vietnam in 2018.Nguyen said that he will also work on making Vietjet open a route from Vietnam to Japan and then to Koror to be able to provide direct flight service to the Japanese tourists that want to visit Palau.
