According to current regulations, tourist accommodation establishments are required to apply a retail electricity tariff for business customers that is higher than the retail electricity tariff for production. This affects the competitiveness of businesses operating tourist accommodation establishments...
To support tourism establishments in particular and Vietnam's tourism industry in general, in the draft Prime Minister's Decision stipulating the electricity retail tariff structure, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed and built in the direction of Tourism establishments are entitled to apply retail electricity tariffs for production customer groups. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is responsible for coordinating with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to determine the subjects of tourist accommodation establishments that apply the new electricity price...
The accommodation market in Vietnam will be more competitive if it enjoys low electricity prices
The Ministry of Industry and Trade said: "The adjustment of electricity selling prices for tourist accommodation establishments is equal to the electricity selling price for manufacturing customer groups to implement Resolution No. 08-NQ/TW dated January 16.1.2017, XNUMX." of the Politburo on developing tourism to become a key economic sector. Electricity prices for other business households will initially remain the same as current regulations."
According to reports and calculations of the Vietnam Electricity Group, the selling price of electricity for production does not accurately and fully reflect the costs of producing and trading electricity (lower than the allocated costs). Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Trade believes that option 2 can be immediately applied (the difference in electricity sales revenue deficit is allocated to all groups of electricity customers) to ensure the correct and sufficient calculation roadmap. for manufacturing customer groups. Accordingly, the revenue shortfall due to the addition of the "tourist accommodation establishment" customer group can be considered to compensate from the electricity price for off-peak hours of the manufacturing customer group by 4 - 8% compared to The average retail price of electricity due to the off-peak selling price of this customer group is much lower than the average retail price of electricity (from 52 - 56%).
Currently, the country has about 35.000 tourist accommodation establishments with more than 667.000 rooms, including 215 5-star hotels with 72.000 rooms, 334 4-star hotels with 45.000 rooms.
