Hoi An: What future for the heritage city after 13 years of conservation?

Impressive achievements after more than a decade

After nearly 13 years of implementing the master plan (2012 - 2025), the work of preserving, restoring and promoting the value of the World Cultural Heritage of Hoi An Ancient Town has achieved comprehensive achievements. The information was given at the summary conference organized by the People's Committee of Da Nang City on October 20.

According to statistics, from 2012 to now, Hoi An has welcomed 17.4 million visitors, including 14 million international visitors, bringing in revenue of more than 1,900 billion VND. Many relics have been renovated and restored, escaping the risk of serious degradation, helping Hoi An continue to affirm its position as a leading destination in Vietnam and the world.

Vice Chairwoman of Da Nang City People's Committee Nguyen Thi Anh Thi spoke at the conference

Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Thi, Vice Chairwoman of the Da Nang People's Committee, emphasized that the current management model helps Hoi An be more proactive in conservation work, shorten administrative procedures and ensure harmony between heritage conservation and sustainable tourism development.

New vision: "Living" heritage combined with cultural industry

Entering a new phase, experts have proposed many strategic directions for sustainable development of Hoi An. Associate Professor, Dr. Dang Van Bai, Vice Chairman of the National Council for Cultural Heritage, said that Hoi An is a "living heritage" and needs to pursue a "dynamic conservation" model, turning cultural values into economic resources.

Accordingly, Hoi An will provide unique cultural resources for Da Nang's cultural industries. In return, Da Nang's strengths in modernization and commercialization will help transform Hoi An's "cultural capital" into high-value "economic products", creating new experiences for tourists.

Advantages from connection with Da Nang

The connection between Hoi An and Da Nang is considered a historic opportunity to create a new development pole. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim, Vice Chairman of the National Cultural Heritage Council, commented that the advantages of Hoi An's heritage tourism when combined with Da Nang's title of "livable city" will be the fulcrum for developing a multi-sector service-tourism economic model.

The characteristic ancient urban space harmoniously combined with garden villages, craft villages and natural ecosystems is the foundation for Hoi An to develop cultural industry, entertainment industry and heritage economy in the future.

Orientation for sustainable development in the future

In his speech, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Dao Cuong emphasized that Hoi An Ancient Town is a treasure and pride of Vietnam. He noted that in the new planning, Da Nang needs to inherit the core orientations revolving around the Ecology - Culture - Tourism axis, while updating new trends and recommendations of UNESCO.

The Deputy Minister also suggested that Hoi An should take full advantage of its advantages under Da Nang to make a breakthrough, becoming a world-leading model of heritage conservation, closely linked with the Cu Lao Cham World Biosphere Reserve and catching up with the trend of the digital age.

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