The south central province of Binh Thuan aims to lure more than 7 million visitors, including 850,000 foreigners, in 2020. (Photo: VNA)
Binh Thuan (VNA) – The south central province of Binh Thuan aims tolure more than 7 million visitors, including 850,000 foreigners, in 2020.
The locality also targets 18.3 trillion VND (790.7 million USD) in tourismrevenue.
In a bid to realise the goals, the tourism sector will develop standoutproducts such as sea-based tourism and sand dune ecosystem.
Along with carrying out the project on building Binh Thuan into a nationaltourism-sport hub, the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourismwill channel focus on promoting local image as a safe, friendly and qualitydestination, and developing new tourism products such as eco-tourism,experience tourism and community tourism.
At the same time, the province will create favourable conditions for businessesto land investment in local typical tourism products.
A multitude of tourism promotion programmes will be organised this year,including the second “Binh Thuan – green convergence” event with variousactivities like street festival, food festival, firework display and hot airballoon performance, among others.
In addition, Binh Thuan will organise many training courses to improve capacityof tourism human resources.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that in 2019, the provincehosted more than 6.4 million tourists, comprising 775,000 foreigners, up 11.39percent from the previous year.
Revenue from tourism reached over 15.1 trillion VND, a year-on-year rise of17.5 percent.
Last year, the province attracted additional six tourism projects, raisingtotal valid projects in the sector to 383 with total registered capital of morethan 59 trillion VND. There were 24 foreign-invested projects valued at over 561million USD.
Binh Thuan province is currently home to550 lodging facilities with 16,500 rooms./.
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The south central province of Binh Thuan aims to lure more than 7 million visitors, including 850,000 foreigners, in 2020. (Photo: VNA) 
