Local authorities are actively upgrading tourist destinations.

Making tourist destinations green, clean, and beautiful.

According to reports from travel platforms Expedia and Booking, travelers will experience a significant shift in their travel behavior in the coming years. Specifically, travelers are gradually abandoning luxurious trips and global tourist hotspots, opting instead for holidays in lesser-known, quieter locations.

Ecotourism, healing tourism, volunteer tourism, and other environmentally friendly tourism activities that respect nature and landscapes are becoming promising trends with strong growth potential in the near future. Currently, many provinces and cities in Vietnam have actively embraced this trend, becoming prime destinations for green tourism tours.

In Hue , with the goal of developing Hue into a green and smart tourist destination, the Thua Thien Hue Provincial Department of Tourism has recently been actively coordinating with relevant units to develop many green tourism routes, attracting a large number of tourists to visit and experience many attractive eco-tourism and community tourism destinations.

The Hue Imperial Citadel Conservation Center announced that dozens of environmentally friendly vehicles such as bicycles, electric bikes, and electric cars have been arranged in the Gia Long royal tomb area to serve tourists visiting the site.

In particular, over the years, people in Thua Thien Hue province have actively participated in local movements to maintain a clean and beautiful environment. For example, many women's groups in Hue City have organized effective models for collecting and sorting waste and promoting the "green living" movement in the community. The exemplary actions of these people have contributed to building the image of Hue as a green, clean, and beautiful ancient capital, worthy of the title "ASEAN Clean Tourism City"...

Beyond focusing on green tourism, popular tourist destinations in Vietnam are continuously upgrading their infrastructure. Local tourism sectors have selectively invested in preserving historical sites and cultural destinations, maintaining natural landscapes, and dismantling inappropriate structures.

In Phu Quoc City (Kien Giang province), one of the key tasks currently is strictly managing construction order. Phu Quoc has organized a series of campaigns to handle violations related to land, construction, and encroachment on road corridors.

This is a decisive move to improve urban order in key areas and routes, especially those where numerous campaigns have been launched to dismantle structures that detract from urban aesthetics, as well as community projects that Phu Quoc is aggressively investing in, in order to restore the landscape of the Pearl Island.

These are crucial steps for Phu Quoc to elevate its destination status, affirming its brand as an ecological island, a green, clean, and beautiful tourist island city, an international destination with an appearance worthy of being the second best island in the world, as recently honored by Travel Leisure as the Maldives.

Continue to effectively utilize tourism resources.

In fact, Vietnam possesses abundant tourism resources, with a coastline stretching over 3,000 kilometers and stunning, majestic natural landscapes. In particular, Vietnam has over 40,000 historical sites, approximately 8,000 festivals, and hundreds of museums. Although our country has all the advantages in terms of nature, culture, history, and people, the tourism industry has yet to fully exploit these resources.

Recently, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in coordination with the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, organized a conference to launch the 2024 tourism resource survey. Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho An Phong and Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province Le Ngoc Khanh chaired the conference. Deputy Minister Ho An Phong emphasized that the tourism resource survey is an important task with a wide scope of implementation nationwide.

Therefore, a comprehensive, systematic, and detailed implementation is needed for each locality and each type of resource to create a long-term database. Organizing tourism resource surveys aims to form a tourism resource database system, serving the management, planning, and development of tourism products and tourist areas and destinations nationwide.

Most recently, Ninh Binh province has been exploiting its culinary resources and promoting the consumption of Vietnamese goods at tourist destinations. It is known that, in addition to its majestic rocky mountains and many attractive spiritual sites, Ninh Binh's cuisine is also very diverse and rich.

Specifically, as of the end of August 2024, the entire province had 186 OCOP products recognized as achieving OCOP 3-star or higher standards, the majority of which were food and beverage products, including: braised pork with shrimp paste, centella powder, crispy rice, Tong Truong tilapia fish floss, Son Kim Cuc tea, Vu Gia tea, peach wine, etc.

In addition, the province has hundreds of food establishments with numerous certifications guaranteeing food safety and hygiene.

To boost culinary tourism, Ninh Binh's unique dishes have begun to be strongly promoted and introduced to visitors at tourist destinations. For example, at the Trang An Eco-tourism Area, a booth showcasing and promoting Ninh Binh's OCOP-certified products such as Thanh Nguyen's braised pork with shrimp paste, Tong Truong's dried fish floss, Cung Dinh crispy rice, and Cuc Phuong's golden flower tea has been put into operation, attracting the attention of tourists visiting the area.

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