Homestays offer a taste of local life
Homestays offer guests the chance to experience Vietnam away from a hotel or resort and have found favor among local homeowners with room to spare.
After her sister’s family moved out, Ms. Tu Dao had three rooms available in her house. Rather than look for new housemates, she decided to make her house a homestay.
The idea came to her after she noticed there were more and more homestays being offered in Hanoi, and she saw it as a good opportunity to earn some money.
Thousands of local residents are also taking up the opportunity to provide homestay services as a way of earning more income, which is also providing more homestay options in the country.
First appearing in Vietnam in the 1990s, a few years after the country applied policies to open up its economy, homestay servi...
