Lam Dong strives to be a 'green paradise'.

Lam Dong strives to become a green paradise by 2030, attracting visitors with its leading center for high-end resort, eco-tourism, healthcare, and sports facilities in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

The Prime Minister has just approved the Lam Dong Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, in which tourism is oriented as the province's key economic sector, focusing on high quality and sustainability, creating momentum for the development of green economy, circular economy, digital economy, and creative industries.

Da Lat city and its surrounding areas will become high-quality tourist cities, developing a modern, world-class night-time economy. Bao Loc city and its surrounding areas will serve as satellite centers and regional tourism hubs offering leading eco-tourism, resort, medical, health care, and sports tourism in Vietnam. These tourist areas will build their brands and enhance their competitiveness both domestically and internationally.

Six tourism product groups are being prioritized for development in Lam Dong: resorts, medical treatment, healthcare, high-end sports such as golf, horse racing, dog racing; ecotourism, adventure tourism; agriculture, rural tourism; culture, spirituality; urban tourism; and creative tourism.

Da Lat city, Lam Dong province. Photo: Phuoc Tuan

By 2050, Lam Dong province will be a modern, green, smart, and livable centrally-governed city with a distinct identity. Agriculture will be prioritized with the goal of establishing a national and international-level high-tech research and production center. Forest ecosystems will be restored, protected, and sustainably developed, linked to biodiversity conservation and water security. Local people will increase their income from forest environmental services to improve their livelihoods.

Lam Dong is a mountainous province in the Southern Central Highlands, covering an area of ​​over 9,760 km2, with an average altitude of 800-1,500 m above sea level and a population of 1.23 million. It is famous for Da Lat city – the administrative, economic, political, and social center of the province. Besides its cool climate year-round, the province boasts many tourism resources such as lakes, waterfalls, pine forests, and architectural structures of high cultural and artistic value.

The province has nearly 750 accommodation establishments, 29 travel and tourism transportation businesses, and 60 free tourist attractions. It also hosts many cultural festivals such as the gong festival, the new rice harvest festival, the buffalo sacrifice festival, the Da Lat flower festival, and the Lam Dong tea festival.

Viet Tuan

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