Tourists take souvenir photos on Hai Van Quan. Photo: M. CHAU

This is a special event, marking an important step of cooperation between the two localities of Hue and Da Nang in preserving and exploiting cultural heritage, opening up promising opportunities for inter-regional tourism development.

This is also the first time that these two localities have joined hands in an inter-regional relic restoration project. This cooperation demonstrates the strategic vision and determination of both provinces and cities in preserving and promoting the value of cultural heritage, contributing to promoting sustainable tourism development.

Thua Thien Hue and Da Nang have joined hands to achieve unexpected success in the restoration and embellishment of Hai Van Quan relic. “It is a clear demonstration of the connection and determination of the two localities,” said Mr. Le Trung Chinh, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Da Nang City.

However, in the future, these two localities still need to have more "handshakes" in jointly promoting the value and effectively exploiting this relic "to create sustainable economic and cultural values ​​for both localities", as affirmed by Mr. Le Trung Chinh.

Hai Van Quan is expected to become a new highlight in the journey to explore the Central region, where visitors can learn about history, culture and admire the majestic natural beauty.

To effectively exploit this relic, Hue and Da Nang have planned to build connecting tours, creating unique and attractive experiences for tourists such as: Developing inter-regional tours; Building infrastructure and tourism services; Strengthening tourism promotion and advertising at home and abroad...

However, unlike the restoration project, the upcoming joint tourism exploitation "project" will certainly face significant challenges for both localities, especially in terms of how to effectively manage it.

Because Vietnam has many relics and cultural heritages that are jointly exploited by localities such as Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba of Quang Ninh and Hai Phong; National Reserves of two localities Bac Kan and Cao Bang. In the world, there are transnational heritages that are jointly exploited such as: The Ganges River Basin (India and Bangladesh); The Alsace - Lorraine border area (France and Germany) ...

Unfortunately, there is no remarkable lesson for Hue and Da Nang in the story of jointly exploiting tourism at Hai Van Quan. Because Ha Long, Hai Phong, Bac Kan, Cao Bang, although for a long time "inter-regional" in terms of heritage, each locality has an independent management board, unrelated to each other. Inter-national is even more complicated because of differences in political regimes, economic policies...

The most feasible and promising solution for Hai Van Quan at this time is to pilot a private management model. Now, if the two localities of Hue and Da Nang jointly establish a joint management board to manage and exploit, it will certainly be cumbersome, costly and ineffective! Along with that are good monitoring mechanisms so that the "private management" complies with regulations and does not do wrong.

Of course, the opening of Hai Van Quan is just the first step in the Hue - Da Nang inter-regional tourism development strategy. With close cooperation as well as the determination and strategic vision of the leaders, these two localities can continue to exploit other cultural and natural heritages to create unique and attractive tourism products!

HOANG VAN MINH