It’s the feeling of many foreign tourists. This is understandable because with its outstanding values, Ha Long is really a place where foreign visitors love to admire and explore whenever they visit Vietnam. That’s the reasons why, not surprisingly Ha Long has become a must-see destination in all tours to Quang Ninh in particular and in Northern provinces in general.
“Ha Long is always a highlighted spot in our tour programs to the northern areas…” - Mr. Doan Van Dung, General Director of Indochina JSC said.
For a long time, Ha Long has been famous for its outstanding values of geology, culture and scenery. Thus, the number of tourists to Ha Long – the World Natural Wonder is increasing. As a company doing services in Ha Long Bay, we find that Ha Long has rich potentials to develop different kinds of services contributing to socio-economic development. Our company has recently designed many tour programs to the Northern part of Vietnam selling to tourists, especially foreign tourist market.
In those tour programs, Ha Long is always a highlight. From our experience in organizing tours in Vietnam, we find that Ha Long Bay tour is now much improved with new routes and better quality of services. Over-night stay on Ha Long Bay is currently an attractive product to the tourists from Europe, America, Australia, etc as it gives tourists an strong view, and a deeper feeling about Ha Long Bay. Therefore, improving and diversifying tourism services will make Ha Long Bay more well-known and competitive with other tourism areas within the country. However, beside the preservation and promotion of Ha Long Bay’s outstanding values, developing good products meeting tourists’ satisfaction is still a big challenge. As a pioneer company in developing tourism products to offer the tourists, we are now making some proposals of new tourism services on Ha Long Bay aiming at creating new values and improving the service quality.
“ We always recommend Ha Long to tourists”- stated by Mr. Nguyen Van Tan- Director of JTB-TNT Travel Co.,Ltd
A noticeable feature that I realized while working in Ha Long is the close coordination of the organizations including the Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee, relevant departments and travel agencies. Therefore, I believe that tourism situation of this area will be soon much improved. Ha Long is always in our mind when we recommend tours for our customers.
I also agree the increase in price of tourism products. That's reasonable because we need to have the products deserving the values of Ha Long Bay. I hope that travel agencies would have solutions to prolong the tourists’ length of stay in this beautiful place…
“We’d love to build a “Ha Long cruise tourism trademark” ” - Mrs. Vu Thi Hong Quyen, Deputy Director of Saigontourist Travel Service Company (Quang Ninh branch).
“For many years, Saigontourist Quang Ninh has received and successfully organized tours for a great number of international and domestic tourists. It significantly contributed to the promotion and development of the provincial tourism sector, especially cruise tourism with weekly arrivals of the leading cruise liners in the world, so that Vietnam in general and Ha Long in particular would become an attractive destination to cruise tourists. Only in the first 3 months of 2013, Saigontourist Quang Ninh branch has welcomed 32,859 tourist arrivals, including 31,958 international arrivals and 901 domestic arrivals, up 71% compared to the same period in 2012.
On the occasion of 2013 Ha Long Carnival, Saigontourist Travel Service Company has designed Ha Noi-Ha Long tour which tourists can book from its branches over the country. This special tour combines local events. It was initiated since the first Carnival of Quang Ninh. This year, the company expects to have an increase of 10% tourists attending this event in comparison with the event, last year".
Thu Nguyen
