Many foreign tourists visiting Vietnam have continued to be disturbed by local beggars, street vendors, and even worse - ripped off by taxi drivers and restaurants.
Not long after a Thai tourist had been forced to pay VND10 million (S$600) for a 6-kg fish at a fishing village in Halong Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh, Tuoi Tre received waves of reports on similar scams in tourism hotspots all around the country.
Huynh Cong Hieu, for instance, a tour guide working for the company Saigontourist, said a foreign visitor had told him that he was ripped off by a taxi driver, who charged him VND900,000 for a route of less than 2 kilometres - from Ben Thanh Market to Saigon Port, last December.
"The tourist had since been frightened by the taxi drivers, and had to ask me to hail a taxi for him, to avoid being overcharged again," said Hieu. Full story...
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Not long after a Thai tourist had been forced to pay VND10 million (S$600) for a 6-kg fish at a fishing village in Halong Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh, Tuoi Tre received waves of reports on similar scams in tourism hotspots all around the country.
Huynh Cong Hieu, for instance, a tour guide working for the company Saigontourist, said a foreign visitor had told him that he was ripped off by a taxi driver, who charged him VND900,000 for a route of less than 2 kilometres - from Ben Thanh Market to Saigon Port, last December.
"The tourist had since been frightened by the taxi drivers, and had to ask me to hail a taxi for him, to avoid being overcharged again," said Hieu. Full story...
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