Cua Lo exploits Chinese tourist market
(Baonghean.vn) - As the country's sea tourism center, Cua Lo Town is constantly innovating and increasingly attracting international tourists, including Chinese tourists.
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| Cua Lo town strives to participate in promoting tourism in China in 2017. Photo: Vuong Bang |
On average, each year Cua Lo welcomes 5,000 - 6,000 foreign visitors, mainly from Laos and Thailand, and some tourist groups from China have begun to appear.
Identifying China as a potential tourist market, Cua Lo has implemented many solutions to maintain and continue to increase the number of international visitors such as participating in promotional activities in 4 major cities in China, working with and inviting partner businesses and large corporations to survey, and building more accommodation facilities to increase the number of rooms for the 2018 summer tourist season.
With these efforts, initially there have been a number of tourist groups coming to visit with short stays and in small groups, typically the Angel Group tourist group to Cua Lo at the beginning of this year. In addition, there are currently a number of Chinese enterprises continuing to raise the issue of opening tours to Cua Lo in the near future.
The number of tourists from China will help many accompanying services such as dining, shopping, coastal dining services, entertainment activities, massage...
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| International visitors survey tourism in Cua Lo. Photo: Vuong Bang |
Mr. Vo Van Tho - Head of the Town's Department of Culture and Information said: "Whether it is a cheap tour or a zero-dong tour, this is still a tourist market that brings great economic benefits to the locality, because Chinese tourists often travel in large groups. However, to develop this market, accommodation facilities, entertainment venues, places selling typical tourism products... must be calculated to ensure a large enough scale."
To proactively welcome this new tourist market, Cua Lo is actively implementing a number of contents such as: organizing roadshow programs to introduce tourism in Jiangsu and Kunming provinces - China in May or June; in addition to the inner-city tours, continue to build tours connecting with other provinces and cities. In addition, step up propaganda and promotion, continue to participate in tourism promotion, organize to welcome Famtrip groups from China; Pay attention to management work, prepare infrastructure, tourism services, tour guides... to continue attracting Chinese tourists to Nghe An./.
