Uong Bi city is focusing on investing in synchronous infrastructure system and promoting hi-quality tourism services, in an effort to develop tourism in a sustainable way, satisfying the increasing demands of tourists.
According to a report by the People’s Committee of Uong Bi city, in 2018, Uong Bi received around 2.2 million tourist arrivals (including 211,000 international arrivals), and earned approximately VND684 billion in tourism revenue. Particularly, on the first days of the Lunar New Year 2019, spiritual attractions in Uong Bi greeted a large number of visitors. As estimated, there were more than 98,000 arrivals to Yen Tu relic, one of the most welknown attractions in Uong Bi city, in the first five days of the lunar new year 2019.
A fact shows that the more tourists come to visit Uong Bi city, the higher quality of tourism services is required in order to better satisfy their demands of entertainment and accomodation. So as to deal with this matter, the city has recently promoted investments and called for many projects on tourism infrastructure in the city. Two of them are Yen Tu Cultural Center that is invested by Tung Lam Development JSC with the total investment capital of nearly VND2,000 billion, and the Trade - Tourism and Culture-Sports Center by Duc Phu Ltd., Co with nearly 300 VND billion.
Going into operation in 2018 and the beginning of the new year 2019, these two projects have helped offer better services to visitors and meet their accommodation demands with hi quality. In sum, Uong Bi currently has 113 accommodation bases, including one 5-star hotel and eight 1-3 star hotels.
Together with a number of spiritual attractions, Uong Bi city has focused on developing a variety of tourism types. One of the highlight is Yen Trung lake eco-tourism park, an attractive spot, attracting a great deal of tourirts to visit in 2018.
In 2019, Uong Bi city will concentrate on successfully fulfil tasks of the new year aiming at raising the quality and effectiveness of services in line with developing hi-quality tourism services. It targets receiving 2.5-2.7 million tourist arrivals in this year.
In the upcoming time, Uong Bi city continues to intensify investment in transport and urban infrastructure. Specially, infrastructure system will be priortized to develop tourism facilities, luxurious resorts, entertainment complexes as well as chains of stores selling hi-quality agricultural products. Besides, propaganda will be enhanced to raise the local people’s awareness of cultural behaviour in a polite and friendly way with visitors.
Article by Pham Tang
