Strengthening tourism connection between Nghe An and Lam Dong provinces
(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of June 12, Nghe An Department of Tourism and Lam Dong Department of Culture - Sports - Tourism held a conference to summarize the cooperation program for tourism development between Nghe An and Lam Dong in the period of 2014 - 2018, and deploy tasks for 2018 - 2020 and the following years.
During the period of 2014 - 2018, the tourism industry of the two provinces of Nghe An - Lam Dong has had close links in propaganda and promotion as well as creating specific tours for each locality. In particular, Nghe An has organized many Famtrip groups to Lam Dong to learn experiences and build new tourism products such as ecology, agriculture, high technology, etc.
 |
| Lam Dong province's working group surveyed the tea island in Nghe An. Photo: My Ha |
Nghe An tourism businesses have also developed and implemented many tours connecting with Lam Dong tourism units to exploit tourism products, especially eco-tourism, resort tourism, and heritage tourism. In 4 years (2014 - 2018), the number of visitors staying in the province increased by an average of 14.3% per year, of which international visitors increased by an average of 15.8% per year.
At the conference, representatives of the two units also frankly pointed out some difficulties in the cooperation in tourism development. That is, the two localities have not yet built a joint publication to promote tourism; support in introducing and consuming handicraft products and souvenirs for tourists has not been implemented; the connection and coordination between the two provincial tourism state management agencies is sometimes not tight...
 |
| Representatives of Nghe An and Lam Dong provinces signed a tourism development cooperation program. Photo: My Ha. |
Following the achieved results, the two sides discussed and agreed on the tourism development cooperation program for the period 2018 - 2020. Accordingly, based on the selection of potentials and strengths of tourism products of each locality, the tourism industry of the two provinces continues to coordinate and support each other in promoting and introducing products to attract visitors.
At the same time, organize tourism programs associated with local events such as tea culture festival, Cua Lo sea tourism festival, Da Lat flower festival...; link investment to develop new and unique tourism products; focus on developing and building brands for specific tourism products suitable to the potential and strengths of each locality in agriculture, adventure sports, resorts, forest-sea ecology, culture-history...
