The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre, which has a 65-km long coastline, plans to seek more investment in the tourism sector, particularly for three of its islets. Tourists take a horse carriage ride in Bến Tre Province The three islets, where fruit trees of high economic value are grown, have hundreds of historical and cultural sites suited to tourism development. Last year, Bến Tre welcomed about 1.2 million tourists, an increase of 12 per cent compared to 2016. Of the figure, about 43 per cent were international tourists. Total revenue from tourism reached more than VNĐ1 trillion (US$44 million). In recent years, the province has promoted ecotourism, cultural tourism, heritage sites, and special destinations. Tourism attractions include fruit gardens, rowboats, horse-drawn carriage rides, and Đờn Ca Tài Tử (southern folk music). Phan Văn Thông, director of Phụng Islet Tourism-Service-Trading Co, said the company annually receives more than 500,000 tourists, with 20 per cent of them foreigners. “My company will continue to upgrade environmental sanitation, train tour guides, and improve service quality,” he said. Lê Ngọc Long, chairman of the Việt Nam-Japan Advisory Council, said: “Japanese are interested in Việt Nam’s ecotourism with riverside gardens. Bến Tre has a lot of potential to exploit this great resource.” “In the near future when the Việt Nam-Japan commodity trading floor is established, we will introduce Bến Tre’s tourism products to the Japanese,” he said. Challenges Trần Duy Phương, deputy director of the province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said… [Read full story]
The Northwest has great potential for tourism development - home to more than 30 ethnic groups in imposing scenery with rich diverse culture forms. In recent years, tourism has become one of the important economic sectors contributing to poverty reduction for Northwestern ethnic minorities. The Northwest has been strengthening cooperation and links for regional tourism development on the basis of promoting strengths of each locality. Along with demands of socio-economic development as well as of national security and defence, the Government has directed localities to actively promote tourism, spread strengths of tourism and tangible and intangible cultural heritages in the…... [read more]
The Seventh Ho Chi Minh City International Tourism Exhibition (ITE HCMC 2011) will be opened soon offering many new things. Vietnam Economic News' reporter Hoang An spoke with La Quoc Khanh, the deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism and the deputy head of the ITE HCMC 2011 Organizing Board. What is about ITE HCMC 2011? ITE HCMC 2011 will be directed by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism and the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, and will be organized by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and the Ho…... [read more]
On November 17 th, at the Hanoi Museum, Hanoi's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will hold a conference to introduce the city's tourism potentials and call for investment in tourism, with the participation of around 200 delegates from businesses, relevant agencies and Japanese investors. In addition, Hanoi will also recommend the best sites for developing tourism with many investment incentives. Source: toquoc Translated by Van Hieu... [read more]
Vietnam's capital city will roll out its advertising campaign on the international news network over the next two years. Hanoi has inked a contract with CNN, America's major news network, to air ads in a bid to promote the city as a tourism and investment destination. Its mayor Nguyen Duc Chung confirmed that the two-year campaign will start its run on January 1. “We have been in talks since August before reaching the final decision that the city will spend $2 million on the campaign,” Chung said. The ads will help attract more global investors, who will fuel the city's…... [read more]
(Cinet) - “Promoting to invest in the field of culture, sports and tourism in the Northern provinces” is the topic of the conference held by the MOCST in Lang Son city within two days 25 and 26 November 2010. The conference on “promoting to invest in the field of culture, sports and tourism in the Northern provinces” is aimed at developing sustainable tourism with the protection, keeping national cultural characters, exploiting humanitarian values, developing culture, sports and tourism contributing to enhancing the people’s life standard. Attending the conference including 300 representatives representing Ministries, relevant agencies, people’s committees of provinces, Department…... [read more]
