After the closure scandal, Tam Coc

Specifically, the notice sent to partners and customers on September 18 by the Tam Coc - Bich Dong Tourist Area Management Board said: Tickets for the elderly will double from 60,000 VND to 120,000 VND/person; tickets for children from 1 - 1.3m will increase from 60,000 VND to 120,000 VND; tickets for people over 1.3m will increase from 120,000 VND to 250,000 VND/person; tickets for children under 1m are free as before. This ticket price includes entrance tickets to Tam Coc - Bich Dong scenic spot and boat rowing tickets.

Tam Coc - Bich Dong in the rice ripening season

According to the above announcement, the upcoming regulation is that 1 rowing boat can carry 4 Vietnamese guests and 2 foreign guests. Currently, the ticket price and rowing price are sold separately and there is no regulation on the number of people sitting on a boat (the boat fee is collected separately at 150,000 VND/boat). The new way of collecting ticket prices for Tam Coc - Bich Dong is similar to the Trang An scenic area.

The Tam Coc - Bich Dong Tourist Area Management Board said that the ticket price increase is aimed at improving service quality, investing in and repairing infrastructure, landscape, and tourism environment...

In early July, Tam Coc - Bich Dong tourist area suddenly closed, not serving tourists during the summer months. It was not until September 2 that this place officially reopened when the agreement between Trang An Trade and Service Investment Company Limited and hundreds of boat rowers was resolved.

The reason for the closure was that the boatmen did not agree to sign a labor contract with the company. Until now, the boatmen have been rowing the boat and receiving wages for each trip from the entrance ticket sales collected by the company.

However, in early July, the company implemented the signing of labor contracts according to the policy of the Ninh Binh Provincial People's Committee, but the boatmen did not agree to sign the contract because they thought the contract had many provisions that were disadvantageous to them.

During the past summer month, Tam Coc - Bich Dong closed to visitors.

After many meetings and dialogues, on September 1, the company made a commitment to comply with the people's requests. For example, the job of a boatman is simply to row the boat and not to do any other work. Working hours are based on actual time spent transporting tourists, not required to be an 8-hour workday as per the Labor Law...

The company also pledged to increase the ferryman's wages from 150,000 VND/trip to 200,000 VND/trip...

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