Eight provinces promote tourism
VGP – The expanded northwestern region greeted more than 20 million tourists, including 2 million foreign ones, in 2018.
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In 2018, the expanded region attracted over 20 million visitors including nearly 2 million international guests. Tourism revenue hit nearly VND 23 trillion, up 26% against 2017, up 9% against the plan.
They developed specific tourism products including Son La with Moc Chau tea festival, Yen Chau mango festival; Yen Bai with parasailing adventure tourism; Lao Cai with flower festival; and Dien Bien with the complex of Dien Bien Phu battlefield.
The localities focused on developing special tourism products and paid attention to tourism promotion through exhibitions and communication work.
They sent delegations to the Viet Nam-Northern Laos tourism promotion conference in the Lao province of Luang Prabang and carried out tourism cooperation activities in Laos’ northern provinces.
However, the development pace has yet to match their potential and advantages, the board said, pointing out limitations in technical infrastructure, transport and human resources, along with unattractive inter-regional tourism products.
Besides, the region has failed to attract large-scale projects to create breakthroughs for the local tourism sector, while cooperation programs have not brought about good outcomes, the board added.
In 2019, the board aims to step up tourism connectivity and promotion, as well as human resources development in service of the sector./.
By Khanh Phuong
