The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has served over 472,000 tourist arrivals, including nearly 200,000 foreigners, since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year rise of 12 percent.
Tourists take a horse carriage ride in Ben Tre Province. (Photo: VNA)
Ben Tre (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has served over472,000 tourist arrivals, including nearly 200,000 foreigners, since thebeginning of this year, a year-on-year rise of 12 percent.
The tourism sector earned approximately 342 billion VND (15million USD), up 25 percent against the same period last year.
According to the provincial Department of Culture, Sportsand Tourism, the increases were attributed to efforts to build and upgradebusiness establishments and create new tourism products and services.
Tran Duy Phuong, the department’s deputy director, said tomake tourism one of the spearhead sectors of the province by 2020, BenTre will continue investing in infrastructure serving tourism, especially inrural areas, together with diversifying tourism products and improving servicequality at tourist sites.
In 2018, the locality will work to improve the quality ofexisting products and exploiting new ones such as orchard, trade village,spiritual and cuisine tourism.
It will also step up dissemination to improve publicawareness of the role of tourism as well as the province’s tourism developmentorientations.
In the time ahead, the province continues calling on competentinvestors to participate in tourism projects, particularly in the coastaldistricts of Ba Tri, Binh Dai and Thanh Phu.
Ben Tre can be found in the lowest part of the Mekong Riverbasin, about 85 kilometres south of Ho Chi Minh City. It is also known as theparadise of coconut since there is a lot of coconut planted there.-VNA
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Tourists take a horse carriage ride in Ben Tre Province. (Photo: VNA)
