Quang Ninh province is very famous for its tourism potentials. It processes not only the World Heritage and Natural Wonder Ha Long Bay but also many other attractive tourist spots, such as Bai Tu Long Bay; Yen Tu relic; Quanh Lan; Minh Chau; Tra Co…This is an abundant resource facilitating the development of Quang Ninh tourism.
A sustainable step in creating impetus
By promoting the advantages of tourism resources, in recent years, Quang Ninh has continuously invested in infrastructure, gradually renewed tourism activities, and improved the quality of services. Tourism has seen new improvements both in quality and quantity, creating a system of specialized tourism enterprises with prestigious brands on the markets.
Along with that, tourism space within the province is increasingly extended, creating attractive tourism complex and tourism destinations that contribute to change the appearance of urban landscape. Quang Ninh has now established 4 key tourism zones, including Ha Long, Mong Cai - Tra Co, Van Don and Uong Bi - Dong Trieu - Yen Hung. Each zone is built in accordance with their characteristic tourism products. Accordingly, the center of Ha Long city is linked to tourism space of Ha Long Bay Natural World Heritage site.
Ha Long Bay plays the key role and is regarded as a driving force in the development of other tourism zones. Remarkably, in recent years, Quang Ninh has always paid high attention to the issues of planning, tourism promotion, alliances and cooperation in developing inbound and outbound tourism. Thanks to proper tourism development policies, Quang Ninh tourism has achieved encouraging results. Specifically, in 2011, Quang Ninh received over 6.4 million tourist arrivals, exceeding the planned target and up 19% compared to 2010. Of which, international tourist arrivals to Quang Ninh is nearly 2.3 million, a rise of 8%. The total turnover in 2011 reached 3,551 billion, increasing 25% over the year of 2010.
To a new height
The above-mentioned results have created advantages and opportunities for Quang Ninh tourism to reach new heights. Accordingly, Quang Ninh always targets to make the most of all resources to develop tourism into a major economic sector. It also aims to become the major tourism center of the country, an attractive destination in the region contributing to foster the growth of other relevant sectors. The province is focusing on building tourism development strategy in compliance with the concept of sustainable tourism development in the direction of high quality, prestigious brand, and focus. In addition, the province will continue to attract investment in major issues, namely infrastructure development; equiping technical facilites for tourism centers; some large modern world-class buildings at tourim centers in Ha Long city will be on the list of priority development projects.
In addition, Quang Ninh is focusing on completing tourism space aiming at developing the route of Uong Bi, Ha Long, Van Don, Mong Cai together with the development of new tourism space, especially the island and marine tourism. Improvement of quality of tourism and services on Ha Long Bay is also emphasized. Furthermore, the province plans to build high class eco-resorts, develop cultural tourism, and diversify tourism products in harmony with Ha Long Bay, Bai Tu Long, Yen Tu Relics, and Bach Dang river relics. Besides, it is important to effectively promote distinctive values of island and sea, culture, ecology, trade border, etc. to create high local identity tourism products aiming at enhancing competitiveness and professionalism of Ha Long-Quang Ninh tourism.
According to the leaders of Quang Ninh tourism sector, Quang Ninh tourism is now shifting the focus from quantity to quality. The province plans to invest in development of important components, such as: high-quality and world-class tourism products, entertainment and supporting services in order to prolong visitors’ stay. In Quang Ninh’s tourism development strategy, ecotourism and green tourism are prioritized to be developed in the direction of sustainable tourism development and environmental friendly. Furthermore, Quang Ninh is also intensifying the alliance among tourism areas within the province as well as the strengthening the link of tourism cities and provinces in the nationwide. Also, building capacity and developing tourism human resource ensuring quantity, quality, and qualification are on prioritized in order to meet the requirements of international integration.
All these above activities have created a new look for Quang Ninh tourism, opening up new opportunities for Quang Ninh tourism to reach a new height. By 2015, the province targets to receive around 7.5 million of tourist arrivals, of which 3.3 million international tourist arrivals with total revenue of USD 300 million.
Thu Huong
