- Hi guys, me again. Tet is coming and I had a small survey in my school - ERC Institute about Tet so I want to share with you guys. Peace!!
Living in Vietnam, almost everyone knows what is Tet holiday. But for those who have never come to Vietnam, It is something really strange. Lots of Americans have heard of the infamous TetOffensive during the Vietnam War (Rodgers G, 2017). ERC is one of the international school that appear to be having one part of it in Vietnam which mean they will also have to attend and having to be effected by this Tet holidays. In this essay, we will demonstrate how ERC’s students travel in their Tet holidays.
A survey was formed for ERC’s Student to have a quick check on how do they travel on Tet Holiday as well as why do they make that decision. This survey includes 12 questions with 11 multiple choice questions and 1 open ended question. 12 students have been selected to do this survey for us, the survey has been generated by Google Form.
- According to the chart above, the number of male in ERC outweigh the number of Female in ERC with 75% and 25% respectively. As it comes close to Tet Holiday, usually, female will spend most of their time thinking about what to buy and what to storage in their house due to Tet holiday every store or market will close eventually when male having all of there free time thinking of the traveling plan for their whole family. When it comes to travel, ale usually takes the lead cause they know what they are doing and always decides at the last minute (Rossi A, 2016). If female werer to take the lead, they will eventually spend lost of time thinking about the plan, what to go, where to eat, what to wear, and when the time comes, it usually got canceled.
- Age does matter how we travel and the travel habit. The graph illustrates the age among 12 ERC’s students. It can clearly be seen that age from 15-22 (83.3%) overwhelms the number of age from 22-25 (16.7%). The pie chart shows us that young people in ERC really love to travel, especially when they reach 18. At this age, they now have their own freedom and really energetic while the older group have already experience that so it will be less traveling around like they used to do. Young people really cares of where and why they get to travel to that place where it either learning or just doing it for fun. But then Age is just a number, it does really matter (Alicia, 2016).
- Tet holiday in difference places have different day offs. Really rare do we see the Tet holiday that only have 1 week off and in ERC this does not seem to happen either. In Vietnam, 2 weeks is what we always see and been through, roughly 10days. But when it come to ERC’s students, 58.3% got 15 days and 41.7% got 10 days, that is almost exactly the same which tells us that, different individuals in different sectors have various of day offs.
- As we said before, the age group will constantly makes different. Mostly those who has higher age will eventually go back to their hometown and celebrate Tet holiday with their relatives while young people will most likely travel around and explore new thing in their life and those 12 students in ERC has really point out the meaning of it event though some youngster will go back to their home town with their parents to shows respect.
- Now this chart above will shows us exactly what kind of vehicles they use to travel in Tet holiday. It can be seen that Airplane is taking a huge amount compare to others, and especially, train has 0% in all. This shows that ERC’s student prefer to travel by plane to other vehicles and none like to chose train as their traveling vehicle. So if they chose plane, what kind of airplane brand comes to their mind?
- Vietnam Airline is one of the most popular airplane brand across Vietnam and it is famous for it service and other categories while passengers are on the plan. Compares to other, Vietnam Airline is the top choice does not say that the others are bad. But seem like student in ERC prefer Vietnam Airline. So plane is really convenience, here is why they prefer airplane.
- Fast and safety, airplane can guarantee that that is why it is the most popular choice. So what if they have to chose something that is not airplane? Here is what the survey gave us.
- Apparently, airplane is fast and safety yet very very expensive. Some may can afford one but if not they still have many other.
- Tet is when thing gets busy and crowded most of the time.At the beginning of Tet and after Tet has the sum equal to the number of ERC’s students travel Before. So when it comes to Tet, ERC’s student need to plan ahead on when to go. This pie chart shows us a very even result. Most of them travel before Tet comes to avoid the traffic jams and the issue with the ticket for plans, trains and buses.
- It has been mentioned above that Tet is when thing got busy and crowded. The chance that one trip got delayed due to traffic jam is really really high. Most of the students try to travel before Tet event starts but 83.3% of the student got their trip delay. As a result many many have already tried to plan ahead and still got this situation. Also running out of ticket can cause this too.
Who do these 12 students usually travel with? Well apparently, 100% of them travel with family. Because Tet holiday is when we spend time with family. (Aquino M, 2017)
One open ended question was left for students to fill it, In order to collect much more information and the variation of answers we can get.
‘What do you feel different between travel on Tet holiday and regular day?’
- In conclusion, Tet holiday is one of the most important holiday and it is one of the cultural day in Vietnam there fore many many different kind of vehicles and way to travels appear just to help people have more of a variation in choosing in order to travel in Tet holiday. We personally suggest that we increase the number of vehicles options so that many others people can also have a chance to go back to there Hometown.
