Typic Travel: Ambassador of responsible tourism at IFTM

Typic Travel, a local travel agency based in Hanoï, is proud to participate every year in the IFTM Top Resa exhibition in Paris. This unmissable event for tourism professionals is an opportunity for us to strengthen our network, share our passion for Southeast Asia, and promote our vision of authentic and responsible tourism. This year again, Typic Travel was represented by its director, ĐỖ Quang Tiến, alongside a number of different agencies also keen to promote the countries of former Indochina.

For more than fifteen years, Typic Travel has been committed to offering tailor-made trips, far from the beaten path and mass tourism. Our mission is to support each traveler in building a 100% personalized travel project, combining authenticity, practicality, and respect for people and the environment.

Our participation in the IFTM Top Resa exhibition reflects our desire to become the benchmark for responsible and respectful tourism in Southeast Asia. It is an opportunity for us to forge lasting links with partners who share our values and to introduce the true essence of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand to travelers from all over the world.

Interview with ĐỖ Quang Tiến, founder of Typic Travel

The genesis of Typic Travel

Q: What prompted you to create Typic Travel?

R: With my guide friends, we were keen to discover Southeast Asia differently. We wanted to offer unique travel experiences, in line with local realities and respectful of people and the environment. We were determined to transmit our passion as travelers, because before selling services to individuals, we consider ourselves above all as explorers, modern-day adventurers. Some are passionate about hiking, others about encounters; still others are photographers and seek a certain quality of light, an atypical landscape, ancient customs. The idea we have of travel considerably exceeds the limited horizon of the organized tour as it was practiced in the early 2000s.

The importance of the IFTM exhibition

Q: Why was it important for you to participate in the IFTM Top Resa exhibition?

R: The IFTM Top Resa exhibition is a great showcase to make our philosophy and our approach to travel known. It is an opportunity to meet professionals who share our values, to exchange best practices and to forge lasting partnerships to offer ever more authentic experiences to our travelers. On a more self-interested level, it is also an opportunity to expand and renew our clientele.

Our message to visitors

Q: What message did you want to convey to visitors of the exhibition?

R: We wanted to communicate our passion for these fascinating and often fantasized destinations. To invite them to travel beyond clichés, to meet peoples and cultures. To show them that another kind of tourism is possible, more respectful and meaningful, where one seeks oneself through the Other. This is the whole challenge and raison d'être of Typic Travel.

Vision for the future

Q: How do you see the future of tourism in Southeast Asia?

R: I am convinced that the future belongs to a more reasoned tourism, constructive and no longer destructive, in line with both the aspirations of travelers seeking authenticity and unique experiences and with local populations who seek to earn their living in a preserved environment. It is in this direction that we will continue to develop our offers, in close collaboration with our local partners, and we will not miss the call for the next edition of the IFTM Exhibition!