Khanh Hoa tourism industry has set a target of welcoming about 2023 million tourists by 4, of which, about 2,5 million domestic tourists and 1,5 million international visitors. Tourism revenue reached 21.000 billion VND.
According to statistics of Khanh Hoa Department of Tourism, in the first 6 months of 2023, Khanh Hoa welcomed over 2,78 million visitors, an increase of 165,3% over the same period; tourism revenue reached about 12.565,7 billion VND, up 126,2 % over the same period.
The 2023th Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa Sea Festival in 10 – Photo: Khanh Hoa Newspaper
Ms. Nguyen Thi Le Thanh, Director of Khanh Hoa Department of Tourism, said that the province's tourism industry is having a good growth rate in the first 6 months of 2023. According to Ms. Thanh, the above results were obtained from the attention of the leadership. leaders of ministries, sectors and localities, as well as the consensus of the tourism business community in successfully organizing a series of major events taking place in the area.
Specifically, in the first 6 months of the year, the total number of guests staying was over 2,78 million visitors, an increase of 165,3% over the same period. In which, international visitors reached more than 780.000 arrivals, increasing 17,6 times over the same period; domestic tourists reached more than 1,9 million visitors, up 99,3% over the same period.
In 2023, Khanh Hoa's tourism industry aims to welcome about 4 million tourists, including about 2,5 million domestic visitors and 1,5 million international visitors, with tourism revenue reaching 21.000 trillion VND. copper.
Along with the results achieved in the first 6 months of the year, Khanh Hoa is entering the peak summer tourist season and international flights to this locality are tending to grow well. Accordingly, Khanh Hoa tourism industry expects to finish early and exceed the set annual plan.
According to Mr. Le Kim Nhut - Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Province Tour Guide Association Executive Committee of Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa Tourism Association, CEO Ana Park said that recently Khanh Hoa has organized well the holiday programs. festivals, Sea Festivals and large conferences to promote its image and attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists. Over the past time, local authorities, tourism industry leaders, associations as well as businesses have made many efforts to promote, advertise and build programs to introduce the destination of Nha Trang - Khanh. Draw.
In particular, a number of new tourism products have been born and resonated as well as become quite famous destinations in Khanh Hoa such as That theater, Ana Marina international marina and Seawalker - exploring the Cham ocean. Ancient Pa has contributed to attracting and retaining tourists to Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa.
In the coming time, a number of new tourism products will continue to be deployed such as a night entertainment complex in the northern area of Nha Trang to add utilities and improve the quality of marine tourism products, contributing meet the increasing needs of tourists when coming to Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa.
From March 3 up to now, Khanh Hoa has received 2023 cruise ships, with nearly 5 guests. The strong return of tourists by cruise ships from many countries around the world is a good signal, affirming the position of the destination of Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa. The characteristics of cruise tourists are large numbers, stable visitor flows, and high spending levels.
Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa has a great advantage in welcoming cruise tourists, that is, from Nha Trang port, it takes less than 10 minutes to get to the city center. Organizers of cruise ship tours to Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa choose familiar destinations such as Long Son Pagoda; Ponagar tower; Truong Son craft village; experience tour to visit Cai river; cycling to explore the countryside around Nha Trang; learn to cook Vietnamese dishes…
Currently, according to experts of sea tourism, cruise tourism in Khanh Hoa has not developed commensurate with the potential and available advantages.
Nha Trang port's facilities are not guaranteed and do not meet the requirements of welcoming luxury cruise tourists; The number of quality destinations to welcome tourists is still quite small and the scale is not large; Enterprises have limited ability to exploit and provide services to cruise tourists; Human resources with experience serving high-paying tourist flows are lacking and weak; Promotional activities are not really effective. Besides, tourism products are quite monotonous and have not created a breakthrough or strong attraction./.
People of Hung