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More concentrate on Binh Thuan tourism development
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Lately, Binh Thuan provincial People’s Committee held a meeting to deploy the action programs on implementing Resolution No 06 of the provincial Party Committee on tourism development by 2015 and the development strategy for Vietnam Tourism up to 2020 of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST).
There was the participation of Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tam-vice chairman of the provincial People’s Committee; leaders of Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism; chairman of Binh Thuan Tourism association; members of the Steering Committee for Binh Thuan tourism development; representatives of districts/town/city in the province; Binh Thuan tourist management and nearly 100 travel businesses.
Mr. Ngo Minh Chinh - director of Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism grasped thoroughly the specific contents of the implementation of the provincial Party Committee’s Resolution 06 on tourism development by 2015, including major targets: developing tourism rapidly and steadily; promoting competitiveness; proving and maintaining the brand name of Binh Thuan tourism; striving to attract more and more visitors staying longer and loosing their purse-strings. Therefore, the percentage of visitors coming back to Binh Thuan for the third time will increase.
The tourism sector has strived for achieving an increase of tourist volume of 12% every year, of these, the volume of foreign tourists will increase over 15%, reaching the tourism revenue of over 20% per year within the period of 2011-2015. In addition, Phan Thiet should be built to be recognized as the tourist city and the tourist arrivals are expected to be 4.5 million travelers including 500,000 foreign travelers with the total revenue of VND 7,500 billion by 2015. With respect for the Vietnam tourism development strategy up to 2020 with a vision toward 2030, Binh Thuan province, along with 7 other provinces/city, is in the south central coastal region which has the same specific tourism products: sea-island travel and recreation associated with exploring heritage, learning marine culture and cuisine.
Addressing at the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tam emphasized that, to finish the targets of Binh Thuan tourism development by 2015, the province’s authorities, in the near future, need to implement the following tasks: unanimously identifying tourism as one of the key economic sectors; completing the overall planning for tourism development; enhancing tourism products’ quality; speeding up the construction of tourism projects; maintaining and building a safe, civilized, friendly and hospitable travel environment; investing in improving and developing infrastructure; stepping up the work of popularizing and investment promotion of tourism; strengthening State management of tourism activities.
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Nov
02
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Hoi An with the hope to become tourist, cultural and eco-city
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Vietnam Economic News' Ngo Hoa & Hong Hanh spoke with Hoi An City People's Committee Chairman Le Van Giang about the city's target of becoming an ecological, cultural and tourist urban area.
How will the of the old part of Hoi An be preserved?
As a world heritage site with priceless cultural values, Hoi An has been implementing consistent policies to harmonize its development in combination with its preservation. The Prime Minister recently approved an overall plan for preserving and bringing into play the cultural values of Hoi An in relation to urban and tourism development in the 2012-2015 period. This will pave the way for Hoi An to fulfill its target of becoming an ecological, cultural and tourist city. The city has agreed on many solutions and policies to improve social welfare and security. Hoi An continues to give prominence to restoring and bringing into play its traditional culture, both tangible and intangible cultural values including trade practices, elements of daily life, festivals and ancestor and spirit worship plus folk games such as human chess and bai choi (singing while playing cards), the peaceful ambience of moonlight nights, and more. Hoi An is a safe place at both day and night. These achievements are due to efforts of the city authorities and people, which contributed to transforming Hoi An into an attractive, safe and friendly tourist destination for domestic and foreign visitors.
What challenges has Hoi An faced when following an ecological city development model?
It is not simple to develop the city comprehensively while harmonizing heritage preservation and urban development , while attempting to provide for all the demands of modern life and bringing into play Hoi An's cultural values. Developing Hoi An into an ecological city has become an objective need in the context of increasing urbanization. Located on a river bank and close to an estuary, Hoi An frequently suffered from natural disasters and climate change that has continuously affected the city's historic sites. This is why Hoi An chose an ecological city development model to harmonize cultural preservation and development. It has been preserving cultural values in development and it has also been developing to preserve cultural and historical values. Assuring ecological balance, sustainable development, promoting economic growth and improving the quality of life of its citizens are something that the city pursues.
What has Hoi An done to adopt a successful urban management strategy?
Hoi An will further transform into an ecological, cultural and tourist city on a sustainable basis, while its cultural values will be brought into play and preserved. The city's old quarter will be preserved with concrete policies and through community education. Old streets will be improved and the city's urban area will be expanded towards developing and expanding the amount of area with trees.
Many concrete policies were implemented systematically and in compliance with the community's wishes. The city has regulations on managing, improving and protecting its old quarter, production and trading activities in Region I and its environs, traditional craft villages, ecological villages and architectural and urban projects and space.
Although Hoi An is part of a province it needs policies for a city recognized as a world cultural heritage site. The implementation of many of Hoi An's development and preservation projects was not as effective as expected as it needs to be promoted with policies by authorities at higher levels. Management and financial policies and tasks related to old quarter preservation and use, infrastructure and environment improvement, urban space expansion and solving problems of people's daily lives were clarified. However, there are many more things to do.
Hoi An needs a legal framework for overall urban planning including urban space, environmental, technical and transport infrastructure and sector plans that will be combined to satisfy the demand for developing Hoi An into a sustainable ecological, cultural and tourist urban area. To do this, Hoi An needs special assistance from the Government, Quang Nam Province, sectors and international organizations.
Hoi An's authorities and people are determined to protect Hoi An as a world cultural heritage site and transform the city into an ecological, cultural and tourist urban area in order to more confidently embrace international integration.
Tourism has been a major strength of Hoi An in terms of its economic development so it will be strongly developed through regional and international connectivity. Developing high quality tourism related to preserving and bringing into play the city's cultural values is a strategy adopted by Hoi An's authorities. The city has plans for promoting community tourism and at the same time properly exploiting cultural, festival, ecological, craft village and islands tours and diversifying the range of tourist offerings. The Cu Lao Cham World Biosphere Reserve will be strictly preserved and properly managed.
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Nov
02
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Foreign arrivals in Vietnam grow 11.2 percent
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VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomed around 5.35 million international visitors in the first ten months of this year, up 11.2 percent over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.
Of the total, 4.47 million arrived in the country by air, while almost 60,000 came via sea routes and 821,000 by land.
The number of visitors to the country for business purposes rose by 17.4 percent; for visiting relatives, 16 percent; and for holidays, 8.7 percent, the office said.
During the period, increases in the number of tourists to Vietnam were recorded in those from the Republic of Korea, Japan, Malaysia, France, China, Cambodia and Australia.
Vietnam’s tourism sector has set a target of welcoming 6.5 million foreigners this year. The increasing number in the reviewed period is a positive signal for the country to reach its goal.
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Famed songwriter will have a meeting
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02/11/2012 08:33:57
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Hanoi students win filmmaking prize
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02/11/2012 08:27:12
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Vietnam welcomes Israeli and Palestinian artists performance
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02/11/2012 08:24:47
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World Police Music Festival welcomes participation of Vietnam
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02/11/2012 08:19:37
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Hue city attracts a lot of Thai tourists
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02/11/2012 08:15:49
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Vietnam greets more than 5.3 million foreign tourists in ten months
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02/11/2012 08:13:34
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Welcomes "Carmen Fantasty" concert
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01/11/2012 08:54:09
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2012 KoTo bike Ride
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01/11/2012 08:52:55
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Welcomes the Classic ballet " The Nutcracker”
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01/11/2012 08:51:24
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