Binh Duong’s tourism stimulates demand to absorb more tourists

Binh Duong has implemented a variety of plans and programs to promote the local tourism development

Tourism promotion

Along with launching new forms to serve tourists’ demand on Tet and great holidays from province-based tourist sites, relevant sectors have paid attention to tourism promotion.

Through hosting the 2^nd national Don Ca Tai Tu (southern folk music) festival, Binh Duong welcomed a large number of tourists. In picture: Tourists at southern food booths

Vo Van No, Head of the Tourism Management Division under provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that province-based tourist sites have regularly organized a lot of attractive programs with good prices and hi-quality services for tourists. The whole province has so far lured a large number of tourists through tourism promotion activities. Noticeably, the province welcomed more than 790,000 tourists via the 2^nd national Don Ca Tai Tu (southern folk music) festival 2017.

Taking part in tourism fairs, namely the HCM city Tourism Festival 2017, the Nha Trang Sea Festival 2017, the 13rd HCM City International Tourism Festival 2017…has also contributed to popularizing the image of Binh Duong’s tourism to domestic and foreign tourists.

With the above activities, the number of tourists to Binh Duong has been increasing. In the nine months of 2017 alone, the whole province welcomed around 4 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 8.1%. The sector’s total revenue during the period was estimated at VND1.1trillion, a year-on-year increase of 2016.

Tourism forms developed

Apart from providing tourists with information about Binh Duong’s tourism via website: www.dulichbinhduong.org.vn, provincial Tourism Promotion Center over the past time continued diversified forms on popularizing the image of the local tourism by coordinating with some businesses to sign and carry out the installation of Led lights to popularize some typical tourism sites; opening booths introducing products of the local traditional lacquerware village…The center also advised provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on recommending Phu An bamboo village into the list of attractive tourism sites in 63 provinces and cities nationwide selected by the Vietnam Records Organization.

According to Nguyen Duc Minh, Director of provincial Tourism Center, the center also worked with Dai Viet Communications Joint Stock Company to compose, launch 2 handbooks on Binh Duong’s tourism-gastronomy and reprint Binh Duong’s tourism map 2017, aming to strengthen the local tourism promotion.

Implementing a joint program with HCM city’s Department of Tourism for the period of 2014-2018, provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism opened a waterway tour from HCM city to TDM city. This was also one of tourism promotion activities done by the province over the past time, facilitating the development of the local tourism forms, especially waterway tourism.

Reported by Hoang Pham-Translated by K.T