On the morning of April 18th 2025, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinated with relevant agencies and units to organize welcoming ceremony for the flight from Khabarovsk City, Russian Federation to Khanh Hoa Province. Mr. Iurii Nemtsov - Deputy Consul General of the Russian Federation in Ho Chi Minh City; Mr. Dinh Van Thieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh - General Director of the General Department of Tourism (under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) attended.
Mr. Dinh Van Thieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (the left) presents flowers to welcome tourists to Khanh Hoa.
Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh - General Director of the General Department of Tourism (the left) presents flowers to welcome tourists to Khanh Hoa.
Leaders present gifts to welcome tourists to Khanh Hoa.
Flight EO3661 carrying 427 passengers departed from Novy International Airport (Russia) at 4:30 A.M. on April 18th 2025 (local time) and landed safely at Cam Ranh International Airport at 8:20 A.M on the same day. According to Pegas Misr Vietnam Travel Co., Ltd., after arriving in Khanh Hoa, tourists will stay from 10 to 12 days and participate in tours of Nha Trang city, scuba diving, and cruises around Nha Trang Bay... Besides this flight, in the coming time, the Company will coordinate with related units to operate more charter flights to bring tourists from Russia to Khanh Hoa; it is expected that from now until the end of May 2025, the Company will operate 25 charter flights from Russia to Khanh Hoa with about 10,000 passengers...
Water cannon ceremony to welcome the air plane carrying tourists to Khanh Hoa.
Staff welcoming tourists when the air plane just landed at Cam Ranh Airport.
It is known that Russia is a traditional international tourist market for Vietnam tourism, in which Khanh Hoa is the most favorite destination for Russian tourists. In 2019, Khanh Hoa welcomed about 463,000 Russian tourists, accounting for 71.6% of the total number of Russian tourists to Vietnam. However, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, direct flights from the Russian Federation to Khanh Hoa were temporarily suspended (Russian tourists traveling to Khanh Hoa had to transit through several other countries). Since the beginning of 2025, many direct flights from the Russian Federation to Khanh Hoa have been reopened; Besdies Pegas Misr Vietnam Travel Co., Ltd., previously, Anex Trading and Tourism Co., Ltd. coordinated with related units to organize charter flights to bring Russian tourists to Khanh Hoa with a frequency of 50 to 55 flights/month from April to June 2025 and will operate with a frequency of 90 to 100 flights/month from July to the end of 2025...
Russian tourists are excited to travel to Khanh Hoa.
Russian tourists take souvenir photos at Cam Ranh Airport.
News and Photo: Bich Ho