Ninh Binh strives to become an international tourist center

Discussion scene.

The seminar is part of a series of activities to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam Tourism Industry, an opportunity to share orientations for building new products, promoting the advantages of sea, plains, mountains, spirituality, ecology, and urban areas, contributing to making Ninh Binh become the leading tourism growth pole in the North and the whole country in the coming time.

In his opening speech, Mr. Bui Van Manh, Director of the Department of Tourism, emphasized that the merger of the three provinces of Ninh Binh, Ha Nam, and Nam Dinh is opening up opportunities to reposition Ninh Binh tourism with a new scale and stature, exploiting untapped potentials, creating a breakthrough for inter-regional development. Ninh Binh has all the conditions of "heavenly time - favorable location - harmony of people" to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector with international competitiveness, becoming the leading cultural - ecological - religious tourism center in Southeast Asia.

Director of the Department of Tourism Bui Van Manh delivered the opening speech at the seminar.

However, besides the great opportunities, the new Ninh Binh tourism industry is also facing many challenges such as the difference in tourism products and development orientation between the three old localities; the connecting traffic infrastructure is not yet synchronized... Therefore, comrade Bui Van Manh hopes that through the discussion, the Ninh Binh tourism industry can consult experts, scientists, managers and businesses to build and complete the Ninh Binh tourism development project to 2030, with a vision to 2045; propose solutions in management, investment attraction, product linkage, creating momentum for the development of Ninh Binh tourism in the new period.

At the seminar, delegates listened to the Draft Project on tourism development in Ninh Binh province until 2030, with a vision to 2045. Accordingly, the goal of the Project is to strive to build the new Ninh Binh province into a comprehensive tourism center, developing in depth, with a focus, based on unique resources. By 2030, strive to become a large, important tourism center at the national and international level, the tourism growth pole of the Red River Delta region. By 2045, become an international tourism center, the nucleus leading the development of green - smart - civilized tourism.

Regarding specific goals, focus on developing 4 "core" value axes, including the axis of historical cultural and religious heritage; the axis of natural and ecological heritage conservation; the axis of rural and coastal community tourism; the axis of high-tech contemporary cultural and creative tourism. Maintain and enhance the Ninh Binh tourism brand associated with the conservation and promotion of heritage values. Strive to have 15-20 4-5 star hotels; by 2030, welcome 2.5 million visitors, with revenue of 25,700 billion VND.

At the conference, delegates and experts highly appreciated the urgency of the Project, as well as the proactive, meticulous and scientific preparation of the Ninh Binh Tourism industry. At the same time, they proposed a number of ideas to perfect the Project, promoting the strong development of Ninh Binh tourism in the new context and space such as training high-quality human resources; developing cultural industries connecting heritage values; promoting digital technology in digitizing heritage; enhancing educational experience tours, adding types of research and archaeological tourism, exploiting night tourism, culinary culture, etc.

The suggestions and comments at the seminar are important and meaningful suggestions for the Department of Tourism to research, edit and complete the Project in the coming time.

Minh Hai-Anh Tuan

Source: https://baoninhbinh.org.vn/ninh-binh-phan-dau-tro-thanh-trung-tam-du-lich-tam-co-quoc-741523.htm