Tourism and remarkable achievements

Binh Duong province’s tourism has still faced a variety of obstacles. But, the province well realized policies on tourism last year. The province also paid more attention to socialization in this field, contributing to popularizing the image of a friendly Binh Duong to visitors near and far…

Considerable results

In 2018, provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism (DoCST) advised provincial People’s Committee on setting up an action plan to realize the Politburo’s Resolution No.08-NQ/TW dated January 16, 2017 on “Developing tourism into a key economic sector”.

Enterprises participating in the first provincial Street Food festival 2018 offered gifts from the organizers

Provincial DoCST also organized a seminar on “Improving competitiveness of Binh Duong’s tourism towards sustainable development”, helping the province know more about advantages and disadvantages in order to promote the local tourism in the coming time. As planned, provincial DoCST will further coordinate with relevant units to perfect investment procedures for the Ba Lua port to serve the local waterway tourism.

In addition, provincial DoCST implemented many tourism promotion activities via organizing and attending such cultural-tourism activities as the Hung Kings’ Temple Festival 2018; the HCM city International Tourism Fair 2018; the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Sea Festival 2018…, thereby providing visitors with more than 15,000 printed matters and gifts. Provincial competition on designing tourism products also absorbed many artists.

Noticeably, provincial DoCST coordinated with travel companies to take delegates of the World Technopolis Association summit 2018 to typical orange orchards in Tan Uyen town, North Tan Uyen district and cultural-historical relic sites in the province. This was also one of the province’s activities on tourism popularization.

Contribution of travel-accommodation services

At the seminar on “Improving competitiveness of Binh Duong’s tourism towards sustainable development”, Huynh The Du, Director of Fulbright Economics Teaching Program said that socialization for the tourism sector needed to have good ways to be able to reach economic benefits and build up tourism trademark.

Vo Van No, Head of provincial DoCST’s Tourism Management also said that socialization work made more contributions to the local tourism over the past time. So far, the whole province has had 323 tourism accommodation companies with 6,445 rooms and total registered capital of more than VND1.67trillion; 416 tourism accommodation business households with 5,093 rooms and total registered capital of more than VND225billion together with 28 travel units. In 2018, the province welcomed 4.7 million visitors, including 300,000 international visitors and 4,450,000 domestic ones, up 4.4% of the year’s plan or 102% of the year’s plan…

One of the province’s tourism projects implemented under the socialization form is the Cau Mountain-Dau Tieng Reservoir Tourism Zone. Along with spiritual tourism, the province has effectively tapped tours taking tourists to cultural-historical relic sites and beautiful spots.

Tourism is seen as the non-smoke industry and with a hospitable and mild Binh Duong, it is hoped that the local tourism will fly further…

Reported by Quynh Nhu-Translated by K.T