Guests at Duong Dong evening market in downtown Phu Quoc. Photograph by VnExpress/Ngoc Tai
Phu Quoc authorities have requested vacationers to not give cash to beggars, a lot of whom are kids, in an effort to get rid of panhandlers on the island and “increase its picture.”
Tourism administration our bodies are actually additionally requiring folks to queue in tidy, orderly strains whereas they wait to get pleasure from public points of interest, in accordance with Phu Quoc’s information portal.
As well as, guests are requested to decorate politely whereas visiting pilgrimage websites and historic relics, and authorities have requested that vacationers restrict their consumption of alcohol.
The southern island of Phu Quoc has been attempting to revive its tourism repute following final yr’s disaster, through which worth gouging and vacationer scams grew to become main points. The disaster prompted a drop within the variety of customer arrivals.
The island welcomed an estimated 52,000 worldwide guests throughout this yr’s seven-day Tet break, from Feb. 8-14, a rise of practically six instances over final yr’s vacation.
Panhandling is against the law beneath Vietnamese legislation. However panhandlers gathering in entrance of vacationer points of interest and pilgrimage websites to ask for cash from vacationers is just not an unusual prevalence.
Native authorities at many vacationer locations throughout Vietnam, together with Da Nang and Nha Trang, have additionally pledged to crack down on avenue panhandling to guard the localities’ tourism photographs.