Awakening potential, creating breakthroughs for Tra Vinh tourism industry

Tourists play and swim at the beach in Ba Dong Beach Tourist Area. (Photo: Nguyen Luan/Vietnam Pictorial)

In recent years, Tra Vinh province has made many efforts in investing to strongly develop tourism - the "smokeless industry."

The province strives to achieve the goal of welcoming about 2.5 million tourists by 2025, with total revenue from 2025 onwards reaching over 1,600 billion VND.

Rich and diverse in potential

Many experts assess that Tra Vinh province has many potential resources and strengths for tourism development: it is a coastal province with many beautiful natural landscapes of mangrove forests, many sandbanks and islands located between Tien and Hau rivers, famous landscapes for a long time such as Ba Dong beach, Ba Om pond...

Along with that, Tra Vinh also has many historical relics, ancient architecture, cultural heritage, pagodas, and river and garden landscapes.

Currently, Tra Vinh province has 2 national treasures (Linga-Yoni Statue and Chau Thanh Gold Leaf Collection, Tra Vinh); 16 national relics, 39 provincial relics; 7 national intangible cultural heritages and more than 400 relics under inventory and management, along with 142 Khmer pagodas with unique ancient architecture.

These are ideal destinations for domestic and foreign tourists who are interested in sightseeing, learning about cultural activities, spiritual festivals, and resort tourism in the coastal atmosphere.

Duyen Hai town, Tra Vinh province has Ba Dong beach, a famous resort since the French colonial period.

Here, there are still many protected, cared for and nurtured primeval forests, with diverse flora and fauna including mangroves, acacias, sycamores, parrots, water coconuts, shrimps, crabs, clams, cockles, monitor lizards, wild boars, snakes, weasels...

This area also has a hot mineral water mine running from Con Ong hamlet, Dan Thanh commune to Long Thanh hamlet, ward 1, which was reviewed and approved by the National Mineral Reserves Assessment Council at level B (240 m3/day and night), with a temperature of 37.5 degrees, ideal for exploiting hot mineral bath services.

In addition, Duyen Hai town also has key national projects such as: Duyen Hai Power Center; 5 offshore wind power projects have been put into operation and connected to the national grid, with 79 wind turbines stretching from the sea of ​​Hiep Thanh commune, Duyen Hai town to Dong Hai commune, Duyen Hai district; a channel for large-tonnage ships to enter Hau river, Dinh An Economic Zone and a seaport under construction with the largest and most beautiful scale in the South.

Cau Ke District, a locality located along the Hau River, is where the annual provincial Vu Lan Festival takes place with many cultural and artistic activities, trade-agricultural fairs (introducing traditional craft village specialties, displaying and selling specialty fruits such as: mangosteen, wax coconut, green-skinned grapefruit, xoan orange...).

Tourists visit rambutan garden in Tan Quy islet. (Photo: Thanh Hoa/VNA)

Cau Ke district also has many fruit gardens that are lush all year round, along with unique ancient architectural works such as Huynh Ky ancient house, Chu Ly ancient house, Van Nien Phong Cung and Minh Duc Cung religious sites; Memorial area for female hero and martyr Nguyen Thi Ut...

In particular, Minh Duc Cung, also known as Ong Bon Pagoda, is ranked as a national architectural and artistic relic. Every year, this place welcomes tens of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists to worship.

With many resources and advantages, in the past 5 years, Tra Vinh province has devoted many investment resources and implemented many preferential policies to attract investment to "awaken" potential, creating a breakthrough for the province's tourism industry.

“Soft” mechanisms and policies for tourism development

Mr. Duong Hoang Sum, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Tra Vinh province, said that the unit has advised the province to issue the Provincial Tourism Development Strategy for the period 2025-2030, identifying tourism as one of the key economic sectors.

The unit, together with departments, branches, districts, towns and cities in the province, completes plans and solutions to develop tourism. Key solutions are focused on detailed planning; preferential policies and mechanisms to attract investment; appropriate investment in infrastructure and technical facilities; strengthening linkages and tourism promotion...

The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in coordination with the People's Committee of Duyen Hai town calls for investment in tourism projects such as the Provincial Military Farm Mangrove Ecotourism Area, Ba Dong Sea Mangrove Ecotourism Area, and Duyen Hai Hot Mineral Spring Tourism Area.

In Duyen Hai town, investment will be attracted to form 2-3 coastal resort areas; improve services for guests associated with Truc Lam Zen Monastery located in Ba Dong beach area...

Along with that, the Provincial People's Committee has issued mechanisms and preferential policies for businesses investing in tourism development in the province.

Tra Vinh province is committed to satisfying investors when they join hands to build and develop the tourism industry. In particular, the province prioritizes and provides incentives for investment in developing marine tourism.

The province has implemented policies to attract investment in tourism development such as: supporting families to invest in building houses with rooms for tourists to rent (homestay) from 2-5 rooms, with a support level of 30 million VND/room, and at the same time supporting 50% of loan interest but not exceeding 150 million VND/household, maximum period of 36 months at credit institutions.

Tourists visit Vam Ray Pagoda. (Photo: Thanh Hoa/VNA)

The province supports organizations and individuals to build restaurants combining culinary specialties and souvenirs with a scale of 200m2 or more, with a capacity of over 100 guests, with a support level of 500,000 VND/m2 of construction, not exceeding 200 million VND.

In addition, the province supports 10% of the value of water vehicles transporting tourists (over 20 passengers) for organizations and households purchasing rudimentary means of transport, but not exceeding 50 million VND/vehicle...

The province also supports labor training for tourism investment projects in the province, with a total maximum support budget of up to 150 million VND/project. With investment attention and "soft" mechanisms and policies for tourism development, Tra Vinh province now has 6 typical regional tourist destinations and 2 community-based eco-tourism destinations.

The province has 1 international travel company and 9 domestic travel companies; 129 tourist accommodation establishments, including: 3 guesthouses, 9 2-star hotels, 12 1-star hotels, 5 homestays and 100 establishments meeting tourist accommodation business standards; 1 commercial center and 33 restaurants combining culinary specialties, souvenirs, and standard food and entertainment establishments serving tourists.

In recent years, many travel companies have opened tours and connected routes to bring tourists to Tra Vinh with many destinations formed from indigenous cultural values ​​in the islands and islets along the river and the coast such as the community tourism sites of Con Chim, Con Ho, Con Ong, Con An Loc, Cu Lao Tan Quy, the agricultural tourism site at Sokfarm (Coconut Nectar), Famstay RicThy, ancient Khmer pagodas, traditional craft villages...

Tourists enjoy dishes made from grapefruit in Con Ho. (Source: dulichtravinh.com.vn)

In 2023, Tra Vinh welcomed nearly 2.2 million tourists; including 50,300 international visitors.

Total tourism revenue reached over 1,706 billion VND, reaching 145% of the yearly plan, up 67% over the same period, this is the highest revenue ever.

In the first 5 months of 2024 alone, the total number of visitors to Tra Vinh reached 1.4 million, an increase of 26.7% over the same period, with revenue reaching 994.3 billion VND, reaching nearly 53% of the yearly plan.

The province is continuing to implement a plan to strive for each locality to form at least one typical tourist destination.

Tra Vinh invites investors to build tourist attractions and resorts at Ao Ba Om Cultural - Tourist Area; invest in 3-5 star hotels in tourist areas, city centers, districts, and towns; open a waterway passenger transport route from Tra Vinh to Con Dao.

Along with that, the province promotes links between provinces in the Mekong Delta region and Ho Chi Minh City to achieve the goal of making tourism an important economic sector./.

(Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/danh-thuc-tiem-nang-tao-dot-pha-cho-nganh-du-lich-tra-vinh-post958726.vnp