Binh Dinh has an idea to develop railway tourism products.

Binh Dinh has an idea to develop railway tourism products.

Binh Dinh province needs to promote tourism development linkages to exploit strengths, enhance competitiveness, form diverse and attractive tourism products, especially exploiting railway tourism products, promoting inter-local and inter-regional socio-economic development. This is the content raised at the Workshop on linking tourism product development in Binh Dinh and connecting railway tourism products in Da Nang and Khanh Hoa, organized by the Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism in coordination with the Binh Dinh Tourism Association on the morning of March 31.

Attending the workshop were Mr. Ha Van Sieu, Deputy Director of the Vietnam National Tourism Administration (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism); Vice Chairman of Lam Hai Giang Provincial People's Committee; leaders of departments, branches, districts, towns and cities in the province; representatives of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of neighboring provinces; tourism associations, travel agencies, tourism businesses, international travel businesses in the country.

Binh Dinh is an attractive tourist destination.

In recent years, Binh Dinh continues to be an attractive tourist destination, attracting more and more domestic and foreign tourists, contributing to the socio-economic development of the province. In 2025, Binh Dinh strives to attract 10 million visitors; to achieve this goal, the Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism continues to promote and link tourism development; form a series of events and festivals, create unique tourism products of national and international stature to increase the attraction of tourists to the land of Vo, especially international tourists.

Ms. Do Thi Dieu Hanh, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said: “In addition to traveling by road and air, the train is a reasonable choice for many tourists when coming to Binh Dinh. Not only a means of transportation, the train also brings special experiences, helping tourists explore the natural beauty, culture and history of the emotional regions. This type of tourism by rail is suitable for many tourists, especially international tourists.”

Signing ceremony of tourism development cooperation between Binh Dinh Travel Association and domestic travel associations. Photo: DOAN NGOC

2024 marked the success of Binh Dinh tourism when many events organized by the province attracted a large number of visitors, reaching 9.2 million visitors, an increase of 83.9% compared to 2023. Binh Dinh is ranked in the fast-growing group of Vietnam tourism, affirming itself as one of the attractive destinations in Vietnam, in particular, Quy Nhon City has been honored twice as an ASEAN Clean Tourist City.

Mr. Le Diep Thanh Tung - Director of Saigon Hon Ngoc Tourist Company Limited, Vice President of Ninh Thuan Tourism Association, highly appreciated the green, clean, beautiful, close to nature, and tourist-friendly tourism factors of the Vo land, but said that in addition to existing tourism products, Binh Dinh should focus on developing community tourism products. This is the most sustainable tourism product because the decisive factor is the community, especially international tourists are very interested in and like to experience community tourism.

According to Ms. Nhu Thi Ngan, General Director of Hanoi Tourism Investment Joint Stock Company, there are 3 factors to approach tourism product development in Binh Dinh, which are: What products are there for tourists to spend money on, organization of welcoming tourists and promotion of tourism products. “We are coordinating with Tuy Phuoc district to develop tourism products in the above approaches; in which, we are building 20 sets of tourism identification products that will be launched soon, such as: Tuong tour (tour specializing in the heritage of opera), contemporary show recreating Nuoc Man Port, Thap tour (tour specializing in Cham tower), cultural service tour, cuisine, accommodation at Thi Nai lagoon…”, Ms. Ngan shared.

Connecting railway tourism products

Along with the linkage in developing tourism products, Binh Dinh is promoting the connection of railway tourism products with Da Nang City and Khanh Hoa Province to enhance cooperation between international travel companies in the three South Central provinces with major cities, such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This aims to exploit the potential and strengths of tourism resources in each locality, form inter-provincial and inter-regional tourism products; as well as introduce stimulus programs and new tourism products of Binh Dinh.

Binh Dinh diversifies tourism products, connects and develops railway tourism. Photo: DOAN NGOC

Mr. Ha Trong Thang, Deputy General Director of Railway Transport Joint Stock Company, said: “To develop tourism, bring tourists to Binh Dinh by rail, we have preferential policies with Binh Dinh Tourism Association when building package tours combining train tourism with sea tourism, cultural tourism in Binh Dinh. We are ready to cooperate with travel businesses to improve the quality of train cars, professional services on the train, entertainment space, amenities, develop specialized tourist trains with luxurious interior design, bearing the cultural characteristics of Binh Dinh”.

According to many tourism and travel businesses, to more effectively exploit the potential and advantages of Binh Dinh tourism products, especially developing railway tourism products, there needs to be close coordination between the railway industry, state management agencies and travel agencies, tourist areas and destinations to create attractive tourism products, combining rail transport and diverse experiential services, such as resorts, cultural exploration, local cuisine, etc.

Mr. Nguyen Trung Quan, representative of the UNESCO Hanoi Travel Club, said: “I believe that attracting tourists to Binh Dinh by train will “take off” in the current context of high airfares. However, with charter trains, we should increase convenience, service quality with many packages to choose from and have differences to serve tourists. Only then will railway tourism products attract and leave an impression on tourists.”

To contribute to the national tourism industry in achieving the goals set for 2025, as well as building the brand of Vietnam's railway tourism products, according to Deputy Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Ha Van Sieu, Binh Dinh should have different tourism products to attract tourists to the locality to experience and stay longer, such as: Cruise tourism products, hot mineral spring experiences for health care...; how to make it so that when mentioning Binh Dinh, tourists immediately know that only here can they have that typical tourism product. "With railway tourism, Binh Dinh should exploit tourism products by train on the railway line from Quy Nhon station to Dieu Tri station with its own unique features to enhance the experience for tourists. We will accompany Binh Dinh province to plan to create a diversity of tourism products, towards developing green tourism, digital tourism, smart tourism", Mr. Ha Van Sieu emphasized.

“In the near future, the province will have a plan to coordinate with the railway industry to organize more professional and standard charter trains/carriages, bearing the unique identity of Binh Dinh to serve tourists from Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang City, Nha Trang City (Khanh Hoa Province) to Binh Dinh to experience tourism”. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Lam Hai Giang

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