Quang Ninh adjusts up yearly target of tourist number
The northeastern province of Quang Ninh has adjusted its target in attracting visitors to 19 million this year from the initial 17 million after its tourism posted positive growth in the first seven months.
Ha Long Bay in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh. (Photo: VNA)
Quang Ninh (VNA)🎀 – The northeastern province of Quang Ninh has adjusted its target in attracting visitors to 19 million this year from the initial 17 million after its tourism posted positive growth in the first seven months.
In the first seven months of this year, the province received 13 million visitors, 20% higher than that of the same period last year. It earned total tourism revenue of about 29 trillion VND (1.16 billion USD), an increase of 40% over the same period in 2023. Of the 13 million visitors to the locality, there were over 2.2 million foreign ones, equivalent to the number of 2023.
Director of the province’s Tourism Department Nguyen Huyen Anh said that the locality raised the visitor number target taking into account the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism's forecast about increasing number of foreign visitors to Vietnam, the province’s 7-month tourism growth and tourism activities that the province will hold in the remaining time of this year.
The official said that the province plans to continue to expand its potential sources of foreign tourists such as China, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan (China), the US, France, Australia, the UK, Germany and Japan, while further improving infrastructure, accommodations, services and products.
From now to the end of the year, the province will organise over 90 events and activities to stimulate tourism and attract domestic visitors such as a Vietnam-Korea grand music festival in Ha Long City, the Vnexpress Marathon Amazing Ha Long 2024, and Quang Ninh Culinary Festival 2024.
In addition, the province will continue to implement fall-winter tourism programmes, launch 35 new tourism products, and start the Ha Long Bay - Bai Tu Long Bay tourism route./.
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