Mong Cai targets to welcome 4 million visitors in 2024

The border city of Mong Cai is striving to attract around 4 million tourist arrivals visitors, including 1,4 million foreign ones, by the end of 2024.

Mong Cai City People's Committee has just issued a plan on implementing tourism stimulus programs in the last quarter of the year.

Mong Cai city has become a suitable destination for a two-day trip on weekends or holidays since the operation of Van Don-Mong Cai expressway. 

Visitors can catch the sunrise at Mang Dune, enjoy the tranquility of Tra Co Beach along with pristine sands and immense green poplar forests, experience activities like coastal fishing, and watch the beautiful sunset at Ngoc Cape. At Sa Vi Cape, the starting point of the proud S-shaped map of the country, visitors can admire the soft crescent-shaped Tra Co coast.

For tourists who are passionate about indigenous culture, Tra Co Communal House, one of the largest ancient of this kind in Vietnam, is an ideal destination for them to admire the unique architecture and traditional folk festivals.

To fully feel the magnificent beauty of the headland of the country, visitors should come to Dau Tan Mountain and climb to the Vinh Thuc international lighthouse, which is the first of 92 lighthouses stretching along the coast and on the islands and archipelagoes of Vietnam. From the lighthouse with its French architectural style, visitors can fully capture the vast sea of the country.

Meanwhile, for shopaholics, Mong Cai is a shopping "mecca" with numerous border gate markets featuring thousands of stalls with a wide variety of products, ranging from fashion to electronics to culinary specialties.

In addition to interesting experiences amidst the poetic and lyrical natural scenery, the journey to Mong Cai aims to discover the unique indigenous cultural features, from the brilliant traditional brocade costumes of Thai, Dao and Muong ethnic minority people to the culinary world of the northeastern mountainous region.

Wonderful experiences will definitely make visitors want to return to Mong Cai. In addition to the familiar venues, Mong Cai s also a mystery with many pristine destinations such as Pa Nai Mountain, Vinh Thuc Island, the 72-step waterfall, Trang Vinh Lake, and Quat Dong Lake. Young people who are passionate about eco-tourism and families who love open picnic spaces will surely fall in love with this locality.

Mong Cai currently has more than 200 accommodation establishments, including 22 hotels rated with 1-5 stars and accommodation facilities of motel standards, houses with rooms for tourists and homestays, providing nearly 7,000 beds.