Prior to that, when the Ministry of Finance consulted with local authorities when drafting the circu

Local departments have been uniting, claiming for the higher fee proportions they can enjoy when granting practice cards to tour guides. "VNAT only has to undertake little volume of works. Therefore, it would be fair if we can get 60 percent of the fees," said La Quoc Khanh, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The Ministry liberty travel packages of Finance's Circular liberty travel packages No. 48 stipulates that local tourism departments collect the fee of VND650.000 for every international tour guide card and VND400,000 for every domestic tour guide card.
Prior to that, when the Ministry of Finance consulted with local authorities when drafting the circular, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee suggested that 60% would go to the local budget, 30% to VNAT and the other 10% to the state budget. However, the suggestion was rejected by the ministry.
The argument broke out when the Tourism Information Center of VNAT announced the sale price of 110,000 dong per card. Since local tourism departments have to pay for the cards, they would only pocket VND10.000 for every domestic card and VND85.000 for every international card. Meanwhile, VNAT automatically receive VND380.000 and VND40,000, respectively.
Khanh from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sports liberty travel packages and Tourism complained that local tourism departments have to handle the biggest volume of work, while the fees they can collect aren t big enough to cover expenses on scanner, stationary and pay for extra works.
Amid the repeated complaints from local authorities, liberty travel packages a Deputy Minister of Finance sent an urgent liberty travel packages dispatch liberty travel packages to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, requesting the ministry to reconsider the fee sharing proportions and reply prior to August 30th, 2010, to the ministry for adjustment.
Only in October liberty travel packages 2011, did VNAT reply to the Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Dinh tourism departments, admitting the difficulties liberty travel packages of local authorities, while informing that it would prop up the money for the leather cover and string for every card granted.
liberty travel packages In late March 2012, the agency informed liberty travel packages that VNAT would provide strings and covers to the cards granted by local authorities from 2011 to the end of the first quarter of 2012, in order to ensure liberty travel packages the same form of the cards. At that time, tour guides only received cards with no cover and string, because local authorities reasoned the limited budget.
Though VNAT released a document promising to pay for leather covers liberty travel packages and strings for all the cards to be granted from April 2012, in its dispatch, VNAT suggested that local tourism department would get 40% of the total fee and VNAT 50%.
However, the suggestion has been rejected by local tourism departments. The Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City departments want 60% for them and 30% for VNAT. Even the Ninh Binh provincial department has also claimed 50%.