National Tourism Year 2012: "Hue - Ancient Capital - New Experience"
Thua Thien-Hue Province, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism agreed to organize the National Tourism Year in Thua Thien-Hue 2012 with the theme "Hue - Ancient Capital - New Experience".
The organization of the National Tourism Year in Thua Thien-Hue 2012 aims to affirm to domestic and foreign tourists the strengths of Vietnam tourism; especially culture and heritage, which are considered to be tourism resources of special value to form and develop specific tourism products, contributing to promoting the growth of tourist sources, striving to attract 7-8 million international visitors by 2015, contributing increasingly to GDP, making Vietnam one of the countries with the leading tourism development in the region.
"Hue - Ancient Capital - New Experience". Photo: Internet
The National Tourism Year in Thua Thien-Hue 2012 will focus on building a number of international and branded tourism products, with priority given to developing products that connect the routes of Vietnam's capitals, connecting domestic and regional destinations with a large number of international visitors; with a number of tourism topics such as "Coming to Hue - Discovering and Enjoying Together", "Creating Your Own Hue Cultural Experience", "Hue - Relaxing and Quiet Moments", "Journey Through Time"...
The product development is based on the ideas: "One destination, 5 world heritages", "Hue - with a journey through Vietnamese capitals", "Hue on the legendary green road", "Hue on the trans-Asian road", "Indochina - 3 ancient capitals - One destination", "Hanoi - Saigon - One destination", "Going back in time following Uncle Ho's footsteps"...
Currently, Thua Thien - Hue is implementing 43 projects to invest in technical infrastructure for tourism development, with a total registered investment capital of 49,000 billion VND. Some 4-5 star hotels have been completed and put into use such as Mercure Hotel, Mondial Hotel...
The goal by 2015 is that Thua Thien-Hue tourism must account for 47-48% of total GDP; tourism revenue must increase by 28-30%.
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