Thai companies assist Quang Nam to unlock tourism potential
Two Thai companies and the central province of Quang Nam on November 28 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a project to develop, promote and provide services for tourism development.
Representatives of the Quang Nam Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Thai companies at the signing ceremony. (Source: VNA)
Quang Nam (VNA) – Two Thai companies and the central province of Quang Nam onNovember 28 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a project to develop,promote and provide services for tourism development.
The signatoriesto the MoU are the Quang Nam Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Thailand’sIndex Creative Village Public Limited Company and Vietnam Centre LimitedCompany.
Under the MoU, thetwo Thai companies will assist Quang Nam with activities in the Quang NamHeritage Festival that includes the light and sound festival celebrating theLunar New Year 2017, Hoi An ancient town’s Night Market festival, the Quang NamHeritage Journey festival, the international Marathon race in Hoi An city. Theyalso share Quang Nam with experience in developing agriculture in greentourism.
Apart from possessingthe two world heritages - the ancient town of Hoi An and the My Son Sanctuary, QuangNam boats the Cham IslandsBiosphere Reserve and more than 60 national and provincial cultural heritages.
The province has advantagesin developing tangible and intangible culture tourism products, maritime tourism,inland tourism, community-based tourism, and craft village tourism.
However, Quang Nam’s tourismpotential has yet developed properly to raise the sector’s effectiveness and contributeto local social-economic development.
Wiꦓth theimplementation of the project with the Thai partners, Quang Nam hopes that itspotential and tourism attractiveness will be fully and widely introduced tointernational and local tourists.-VNA
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Representatives of the Quang Nam Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Thai companies at the signing ceremony. (Source: VNA)
