Plans to develop Ban Gioc waterfall tourism announced
The People’s Committee of Cao Bang province and the Ministry of Construction on August 17 announced master and detailed plans for developing Ban Gioc waterfall tourist site.
Cao Bang (VNA) - ThePeople’s Committee of Cao Bang province and the Ministry of Construction onAugust 17 announced master and detailed plans for developing Ban Gioc waterfalltourist site.
The announcement aims to call for investmentfrom enterprises to turn Ban Gioc waterfall tourist site into a key tourismsite of the northern mountainous province and the nation, contributing toboosting the development of the province and the region.
Under the master plan, approved by the PrimeMinister in April this year, the Ban Gioc waterfall tourist site will cover1,000ha while the central area of the site will cover 156.7ha.
Facilities will be also built in the zone toserve tourism, including hotels and service areas.
The tourist site is expected to welcomeapproximately 750,000 visitors per year and have more than 1,000 rooms fortourists by 2020. By 2030, the tourist site is estimated to receive 1.2 millionvisitors and have some 1,750 rooms for visitors.
The central area of the Ban Gioc waterfalltourist site is set to have four areas including the Ban Gioc waterfalllandscape, the landscape along the Quay Son River, the mountainous forestrylandscape ecology and the agricultural landscape ecology.
Ban Gioc is in Dam Thuy commune, Trung Khanhdistrict, on the border with China’s Guangxi province. It is 53 metres high and300 metres wide and has three levels of smaller waterfalls.
The waterfall is the fourth largest borderwaterfall in the world and was named one of the ten most spectacular waterfallsin the world by travel site Touropia.
In 2016, the tourism site welcomed more than178,000 visitors.-VNA
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Ban Gioc Waterfall (Photo: VNA) 
