The central province of Quang Binh targets to welcome 4.5-5 million visitors in 2024, and earn some 5.6 trillion VND (more than 227 million USD) from tourism next year.
Phong Nha cave in the central province of Quang Binh. (Photo: VNA)
Quang Binh (VNA) - The central provinceof Quang Binh targets to welcome 4.5-5 million visitors in 2024, and earnsome 5.6 trillion VND (more than 227 million USD) from tourism next year.
To realise these goals, the local tourism sector will continue to promotecommunications and promotion in various forms and rich content and raise people'sawareness and responsibility in accompanying authorities to develop tourism.
In 2024, the province will focus on investing intourism infrastructure, developing new tourism products such as eco-tourism,cultural and historical tourism, and community tourism to meet the demand of travellers.Along with investment promotion activities for tourism development, Binh Dinhwill call on investors and mobilise resources to continue perfecting technicalinfrastructure to support tourism development in the locality.
In 2023, its tourism industry has recovered after the COVID-19 pandemic with the total number of visitors estimated reaching morethan 4.5 million, 2.14 times higher than the same period last year. Totalrevenue from tourism activities is projected at more than 5 trillion VND.
Since the beginning of this year, nearly 40 touristproducts and attractions have been officially put into operation or l🦂aunched on a trial basis to serve tourists. Among them, all-terrain vehicle rides throughthe ironwood forest of Hamlet 4 in Tan Hoa commune of Minh Hoa district BangOnsen Spa & Resort in Kim Thuy commune of Le Thuy are the two outstanding products that grabbed travellers’ interest./.
A first-ever grand music and light festival in the central province of Quang Binh is set to take place from December 23 to 31, welcoming the New Year 2024.
Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park, a world natural heritage site in the central province of Quang Binh, has welcomed more than 662,000 visitors so far this year, rising over 6% from 2022, its management board reported.
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The central province of Quang Binh will use an aid grant of nearly 600 million VND (about 24,800 USD) from the World Pheasant Association for a conservation project on the “Ga Loi Lam Mao Trang” (Edwards's Pheasant, or Lophura edwardsi).
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The Con Chim (bird islet) community-based tourism site in Chau Thanh district, the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh has won the ASEAN Community-based Tourism Award (CBT-ASEAN) 2023 at a ceremony held in Malaysia, according to the provincial department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
Nearly 100 domestic and foreign delegates, including leaders of the Da Nang city People's Committee and the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism, along with ambassadors and representatives from diplomatic agencies in Vietnam and those from travel firms, gathered in the central coastal city of Da Nang on January 17 for a seminar on advancing tourism development through international cooperation.
Phong Nha cave in the central province of Quang Binh. (Photo: VNA) 
