In context of some restaurants and hotels denying offering services for Chinese tourists, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism strongly recommends not having discriminating and incontrollable actions in the current sensitive situation.

In the actual situation that many Vietnamese tourists decided to cancel their tour to China and many Vietnam’s tourist agents, restaurants, hotels refused Chinese tourists, Director General Nguyen Van Tuan stated
“We will keep observing to give proper guidance so that negative impacts will not break the relationship between two nations”.

First, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism requested local Departments of Tourism to control their travel agents or hotels in having discrimination to Chinese tourists.

“The safety of them needs to be ensured. We have to prevent adding fuel to the fire”, Tuan added. “Besides, each province needs to follow closely the situation to immediately cope with anything that may happen.

Tuan said that tensions in South China Sea also affect on Vietnam tourism such as significant decrease in the amount of tourists or fright from international tourists, etc.

He was afraid that Vietnam tourism will face to a lot of difficulties and risks in the future. He also assured that Vietnam tourism administration is making plans to manage the risks and avoid bad effects.

Under the tensions in sovereignty dispute on Hoang Sa Island when China continues to use water cannon in the Vietnamese oil rig area, causing damages to Vietnamese vessels and hurting crew members as well as setting up oil rig in Vietnam territory, many Vietnamese citizens canceled their tour to China to oppose China’s actions. According to a lot of travel agents, the amount of tourists booking a tour to China has incredibly decreased.

Moreover, the tourists who had planned to travel to China before also delayed the tour because of political instability. Another reason they gave is to show their love and loyalty to their homeland.

Meanwhile, in Vietnam, some restaurants and hotels refused providing services for Chinese tourists. Some restaurants show their protest by hanging a sign board: “Not serving Chinese tourists unless your government takes away HD 982 oil rig out of South China Sea”.