A club comprising 30 companies allowed to serve Thai and Lao visitors to central Vietnam will organize a trip to Chiang Mai of Thailand in September to promote road tours for Thais, the club chairman said.

Cao Tri Dung, chairman of the club, told the Daily that funds would be raised from club members to finance the forthcoming trip to the biggest source market for road tours.

ŵhis will be the first promotional activity abroad. We will have other similar trips to Thailand and Laos to prop up such tours in the region, Dung said.

The club members are now responsible for 99% of the market for road tours of the central region.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has assigned the club members to exclusively arrange tours for Lao and Thai visitors to the country via the border gates of Nam Can, Cha Lo and Lao Bao.

The administrationÃÔ move is aimed at improving tour services, preventing price undercutting and dealing with unfair competition.