Vietnamese police have demanded that two local men refund an advance of $415 to two Dutch travelers who canceled a tour offered by the men, local media reported.   Police officers in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Monday said they had obliged two men, Tran Van Vinh and Le Van Thanh, both 31, to return VND9 million ($415) to Susan Reiniera Erna, 25, and Lisette Dollekamp, 23, two women of Dutch nationality.   According to their May 3 complaint to police, the Dutch women hired Vinh and Thanh to drive them from Hue to Hoi An in Quang Nam Province by motorcycle on May 1. During the trip, Vinh offered to the foreign guests a five-day tour from Hoi An to Nha Trang, a seaside town that is the capital of the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, for VND9 million per traveler. Both the Dutch women agreed and each of them paid VND4.5 million as a deposit to the two men, the portal of Thua Thien-Hue police said.

The foreign tourists informed Vinh over the phone later the same day that they wanted to cancel the tour, as they would be unexpectedly busy during the duration of the tour.   Vinh replied to the women that he would repay only VND2 million to each of them and requested that the women return to Hue to get the reimbursement, according to the news portal. On May 2, the two women came back to Hue and phoned Vinh many times but he did not answer, so they had to resort to intervention by the police. After an investigation, police officers summoned Vinh and Thanh for questioning and they then handed in VND9 million to police to return to the foreign tourists.

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