Not only that, Bac Lieu has full potential and tourism resources such as: rivers, seas, forests, fish, shrimp, craft villages... In particular, this is also a land with a diverse culinary culture with delicious dishes such as spicy beef noodle soup, banh xeo, banh tam...
Bac Lieu Bird Garden right in the city center, considered "unique" in the Mekong Delta - Photo: Internet
Famous tourist attractions in this land include: Bac Lieu Beach; Vinh Hung Ancient Tower; Cao Van Lau Musician Memorial Site; Hung Vuong Square; President Ho Chi Minh Temple; Southern Amateur Music Art Memorial Site; Phuoc Duc Ancient Temple; Ghositaram Pagoda; Windmill Field; Three-leaf Theater; Xiem Can Pagoda; Bac Lieu Prince's House; Nha Mat Tourist Area; Tat Say Church; Nam Hai Buddhist Temple; Bac Lieu Bird Garden; Bac Lieu Ancient Longan Garden; Tan Long Stork Garden; Noc Nang Dong Relic; Ho Nam Eco-tourism Area.
In order for Bac Lieu tourism to develop to its full potential and advantages, the leaders of Bac Lieu province have set a goal of striving for the tourism industry to have a relatively synchronous technical infrastructure system by 2025; high-quality, diverse, branded tourism products, imbued with Bac Lieu's identity, and highly competitive in the region and the country. The tourism industry strives to attract 7 million visitors, with total tourism revenue reaching 10,000 billion VND, contributing 7% of the province's GRDP, creating jobs for 30,000 workers, including 12,000 direct workers. To achieve this goal, the following specific solutions are needed:
Bac Lieu tourism industry strives to attract 7 million visitors by 2025, with total tourism revenue reaching 10,000 billion VND, contributing 7% of the province's GRDP, creating jobs for 30,000 workers, including 12,000 direct workers - Photo: Internet
One is to promote investment in technical facilities and infrastructure to serve tourism development; Two is to combine the organization of cultural and sports activities with tourism development. At the same time, strengthen linkages and cooperation in tourism development; improve the quality of tourism human resources and promote community education to serve tourism development; Three is to promote tourism, enhance the effectiveness of State management of tourism activities, etc. to contribute to promoting Bac Lieu tourism development in the new period; Four is to build a friendly, hospitable tourism environment imbued with the character of the West; Five is to build tourism tours.
Exploiting festival culture
Identifying tourism as an important economic sector and strength of Bac Lieu City, over the past year, the City Party Committee and People's Committee have actively directed and implemented many solutions to develop tourism. Therefore, tourism activities have gradually overcome difficulties after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and continued to grow well.
With the strong direction of the City Party Committee and People's Committee, in 2022, Bac Lieu City welcomed over 2.3 million visitors, reaching 118% of the plan and increasing 87% over the same period. Total revenue from tourism services was about 2,300 billion VND, reaching 104.5% of the plan, increasing 87.7% over the same period.
Art performance program to open Bac Lieu Culture - Tourism Festival and Da Co Hoai Lang Festival 2022 - Photo by Tran Thanh Phong, Thanh Nien Newspaper
Bac Lieu is also promoting spiritual tourism tours connecting visits to communal houses, pagodas, and shrines recognized as provincial and national relics. Mobilizing pagodas to organize folk cultural festivals to attract and retain tourists to stay longer. Especially the Quan Am Phat Dai spiritual cultural tourism tour, mobilizing the Management Board of this tourist area to periodically organize a peace prayer ceremony every week in the evening (2 days/week), in order to attract a large number of Buddhist tourists from inside and outside the province to attend and retain them to stay overnight.
Build intra-provincial and inter-regional tours connecting with destinations such as: Hoa Binh Wind Power Plant, Dong Noc Nang Historical Site, Vinh Hung Ancient Tower, Tac Say Church, Ghositaram Pagoda (Cu Lao Pagoda), Giac Hoa Pagoda, Huynh Flower Field, President Ho Chi Minh Temple. At the same time, form tourism products associated with traditional cultural festivals such as: Da Co Hoai Lang Festival, Ooc-om-boc, Ky Yen... Thereby, build tours to attend festivals combined with visiting typical tourist destinations and enjoying special dishes of Bac Lieu City...
Expanding the network of routes
Along with exploiting and promoting the cultural values from folk festivals, Bac Lieu City will build a tour to visit the Bac Lieu Prince's House Complex and 9 typical tourist destinations in the Mekong Delta, combining relaxation, shopping, dining, watching Cai Luong and Don Ca Tai Tu at Cao Van Lau Theater and participating in folk games, fun activities and entertainment at Hung Vuong Square...
Tour to visit the Bac Lieu Prince's House Complex - Photo by Bac Lieu Newspaper
Along with that, the tour "Experience the culture and life of coastal residents" is built so that visitors can row a boat, fish, cast nets, catch shrimp or clams on the coastal alluvial ground... combined with visiting wind power plants, longan gardens, bird gardens and sitting on rafts drifting slowly on the water to enjoy delicious dishes made from Bac Lieu seafood, especially from Bac Lieu shrimp.
Building community tourism tours, exploring the culture of the Khmer ethnic group and the Bac Lieu longan garden community tourism area: visiting Xiem Can Pagoda and listening to the five-tone music, watching Du Ke singing, watching Apsara dance, Rom vong dance, Sarawan dance, and dipper dance... imbued with the Khmer ethnic identity combined with visiting Bac Lieu longan garden, experiencing the life of local households with farming, shrimp farming, fish farming, and enjoying traditional Khmer dishes...
In 2023, Bac Lieu City will focus on supporting FLC Group to accelerate the construction of high-end resorts in Hiep Thanh and Vinh Trach Dong communes. This includes the construction of sports areas such as surfing, windsurfing, paragliding, golf courses, model climbing and extreme sports games. Thereby, building a sports tourism product that attracts young tourists who like to participate in sports tourism and organize major sports events of the city and the province to attract visitors...
Tung Anh
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