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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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