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| Overview of the conference. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
On the afternoon of January 8, Nghe An Department of Tourism held a conference to deploy tourism development tasks in 2020 and a closing ceremony and award ceremony for the journalism contest on Nghe An Tourism - Cua Lo Tourism in 2019.
Attending the conference and award ceremony were members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Le Hong Vinh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Provincial Agencies; leaders of the Vietnam Journalists Association of Nghe An province; representatives of leaders of departments, branches and localities in the province; and authors who won prizes in the journalism contest.
In 2019, Nghe An tourism activities continued to change positively; many major tourism events were organized; tourist attractions in the province increasingly attracted visitors. During the year, the whole province welcomed about 6.53 million tourists, of which 4.7 million were overnight visitors, up 9.5%; international visitors were estimated at 145,000, up 12.6%; total tourism revenue was estimated at VND 8,800 billion, of which tourism service revenue was estimated at VND 4,580 billion, up 22% compared to 2018.
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| Opening of Cua Lo Sea Tourism Year 2019. Photo courtesy |
Promoting the achievements, in 2020, Nghe An will continue to effectively implement Action Program No. 55 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to implement Resolution 08 of the Politburo on developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector in Nghe An in the period of 2017-2030. The province sets the target: Attracting 5.1 million overnight tourists, including 170 thousand international visitors; tourism service revenue reaches 5,260 billion VND.
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| International visitors to the 2019 Sunflower Festival. Photo courtesy |
Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh praised and highly appreciated the efforts of the province's tourism industry in recent years; making many contributions to the province's outstanding growth in 2019.
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| Nghe An province signed a development cooperation agreement with Vietravel. Photo: Archive |
The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also pointed out the current difficulties and limitations of Nghe An tourism, which are: Tourism management is not really drastic; there are no breakthrough products; the progress of implementing key tourism projects is still slow; tourism is still heavily seasonal; tourism promotion activities are still small-scale, with low spread; tourism human resources are limited in terms of professional skills; and have not attracted high-spending visitors.
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| Comrade Le Hong Vinh suggested the need to improve the quality and diversify tourism products. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Comrade Le Hong Vinh suggested: In order for Nghe An tourism to develop sustainably and make new breakthroughs, all levels of sectors, localities, and businesses in the province need to constantly improve quality, diversify products, and build an attractive tourism environment to attract international tourists and high-spending visitors. |
| Awarding Certificates of Merit from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to groups and individuals. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Nghe An tourism industry needs to closely coordinate with all levels of sectors and localities to do a good job of state management; build tourism infrastructure; attract projects; manage tourism resources well; strengthen cooperation, advertising and tourism promotion. The industry needs to have solutions to improve the quality of tourism human resources; actively reform administrative procedures, creating the best conditions for tourism businesses to develop. |
| Awarding Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee to collectives and individuals. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
At the conference, comrade Le Hong Vinh and comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh awarded Certificates of Merit from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to 6 groups and 2 individuals; Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee to 2 groups and 6 individuals with outstanding achievements in organizing tourism activities in Nghe An in 2019. |
| Nghe An Newspaper won 11/35 prizes in the journalism contest on Nghe An tourism and Cua Lo tourism. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Within the framework of the Conference and Award Ceremony, Nghe An province awarded prizes to the authors who won the journalism contest on Nghe An Tourism - Cua Lo Tourism in 2019. Accordingly, there were 35 authors and works that won prizes. Nghe An Newspaper won 11/35 prizes of the journalism contest on Nghe An Tourism - Cua Lo Tourism in 2019. Including 03 Second prizes, 03 Third prizes and 5 Encouragement prizes. |
| Mr. Tran Duy Ngoan - Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association of Nghe An province launched the 2020 tourism writing contest. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
The Vietnam Journalists Association of Nghe An province, the Department of Tourism of Nghe An and the People's Committee of Cua Lo town also launched the Journalism Contest on Nghe An Tourism - Cua Lo Tourism in 2020./.
