Along with other localities in the province, Mong Cai City focusing on robust measures to improving the quality of tourism products, in an effort to better serve tourists’ needs in the summer season of 2019.
Mong Cai is a border city with various unique characteristics to develop indegenous tourism products. Identifying its own advantages, Mong Cai always focus on developing services, attracting investment in modern, civilized and convenient services; At the same time, the quality of 4 routes and 15 tourism attractions has been improved; the operation of tourist self-drive tours through the border gate has been maintained. As the result, in 2018, the total number of tourist arrivals to Mong Cai city reached over 2.6 million, accounting for 106% of the year’s plan, up 19% compared to 2017.
In the first four months of 2019, the number of tourist arrivals to Mong Cai has drammatically increased, resulting from the city’s efforts in improving the quality of its available tourism products and and paying much attention to lure investment in developing new tourism products as comprised in the plan on Mong Cai city’s tourism product development till 2020 and in orientation to 2030.
According to Vice Chairman of Mong Cai City People's Committee Nguyen Tien Dung, a plan for developing tourism products and the organization of a wide range of activities to welcome the 2019 tourism season has recently been issued. Relevant sectors, organizations, and individuals have been assigned to accomplish their works to ensure the deadline as planned. Mong Cai city shows the highest determination and good preparations to offer the best experiences and services to serve tourists in this summer.
The quality of night activities and services provided by hotels, restaurants, shopping centers have been improved; walking streets, urban landscape… have been upgraded.
Besides maintaining the quality of existing tourism products, Mong Cai City focuses on developing new tourism products, including the operation of the memorial house that marks Uncle Ho’s visit to Bac Luan border gate; the establishment of shops selling Vietnamese goods and Quang Ninh’s OCOP products; indegenous cultural products have also been offered to tourists.
With the aim of ensuring the tourism quality, Mong Cai City has coordinated with the Quang Ninh Department of Tourism to organize 3 training courses on tourism for local tour guides and the staff members of the restaurants, hotels, and tour operators.
In 2019, the city plans to spend 5 percent of the total domestic budget collection on developing infrastructure, improving facilities of tourism routes and attractions, training human resource and promoting tourism.
Currently, Mong Cai City is actively undertaking measures to ensure security and safety for tourists; and complete rescue facilities at tourist beaches; signboards in Vietnamese, English and Chinese have been installed.
| As reported, in the first quarter of 2019, the total number of tourist arrivals to Mong Cai city was over 817.000, seeing a rise of 3 percent over the same period last year, and the total state budget collection in reached VND30 billion, up 4 percent in comparison with last year. |
By Hue Linh
