Notes on tourist transport business by auto in Vietnam

According to Decree No. 86/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, business organizations and individuals or involved in transport business by auto shall pay attention to the following provisions:

- Tourist transport business is the transport business without fixed routes carried out under the tourism program and must have a written passenger transport contract between the transport business unit and tourism or traveling business unit.

- When transporting tourists, the driver must bring the tourist transport contract or traveling contract (original or copy with certification of tourism business unit); the tourism program and list of passengers.

- From July 01, 2015, for auto with design payload from 10 passengers or more, before implementing tourist transport contract or traveling contract, the transport business unit must inform the Department of Transport where the transport business Permit of main information of the trip, including: itinerary, number of passengers place of passenger pick-up and drop-off, time of contract implementation.

- In addition to serving emergency of traffic accident victims or urgent tasks such as natural disaster, sabotage as required by the functional forces, the auto transporting tourists under contract must not pick up and drop off passengers at places other than the ones specified in the contract.

- It is not permissible to sell tickets or confirm reservations for passengers in any form.

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View full text at Decree No. 86/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from December 01, 2014.

Thu Ba

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