Strengthening connections, building unique products to affirm Nghe An tourism brand

(Baonghean.vn) - Nghe An has great potential to develop tourism in the North Central region. Therefore, the province needs to promote linkages and build unique products to affirm its tourism brand. That isis the heartfelt contribution of Dr. Truong Sy Vinh - Deputy Director of the Institute for Tourism Development Research - General Department of Tourism at the workshop "Developing Nghe An to 2020 in the spirit of Resolution 26 - NQ/TW".

Below, Nghe An Newspaper would like to quote the opinion of Dr. Truong Sy Vinh:

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Dr. Truong Sy Vinh - Deputy Director of the Institute for Tourism Development Research suggested solutions for developing Nghe An tourism in the coming time.

Nghe An is known as a land with rich natural resources, including sea, plains, mountains, with many beautiful landscapes, combined with diverse human resources, imbued with national identity. Nghe An land has its own identity, unique advantages to develop various types of tourism; potential to become a major tourist center of the Central region and the whole country.

In order to maximize the potential and strengths to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector, playing a leading role, connecting and promoting the strong development of tourism in the whole region, Nghe An needs to synchronously implement a number of solutions that are both long-term strategic and ensure breakthroughs, to create a turning point for the development of tourism in the province.

First of all, the province needs to pay attention to planning tourism development in an open direction, taking into account regional connectivity, in which Nghe An's location is placed in the center of the region to orient spatial development, invest in infrastructure development, markets and appropriate types and products.

Giang River cruise is an interesting experience that attracts tourists to the Western region of Nghe An (Photo: Archive).

There needs to be a breakthrough so that Nghe An can truly become a transportation hub for the entire North Central region, creating a strong push to attract investment in tourism development. Focus on mobilizing resources to develop Vinh urban infrastructure, national highways, border gates, etc. to ensure the connection of Nghe An tourism with other provinces in the North Central region and national and international tourism, meeting the requirements of rapid and sustainable development.

In addition, gradually implement the policy of socializing investment in tourist areas, historical relics, craft villages, etc. Develop tourism associated with preserving and promoting the values ​​of natural resources, cultural heritage, traditional history and cultural identity of ethnic communities living in the province.

Along with that, to promote the strength of its position as a regional center, Nghe An needs to focus resources on investing in infrastructure and technical facilities to promote MICE tourism (events, conferences, seminars, etc.), shopping tourism combined with relaxation; inter-country road tourism with ASEAN countries; and assume the role of a regional tourism coordination center.

The workshop attracted the participation of representatives of leaders of ministries, branches and scientists, experts in socio-economic fields across the country. Photo: Nguyen Son

The province needs to expand connections with travel businesses across the country, build tourism programs to explore, research and visit historical sites, cultural works, festivals, etc.; have policies to encourage and attract investment businesses, focusing on developing resort tourism. It is necessary to expand and combine to diversify tourism types; focus on building a number of unique, different, attractive tourism products with high competitiveness based on their own advantages.

There needs to be proactive inter-sectoral and inter-regional coordination in service development to solve issues related to tourism management and development such as: investment in product development, promotion, conservation, exploitation of natural resources, etc. At the same time, the province also needs to research and build models for developing eco-tourism and community tourism to protect environmental resources; develop tourism associated with hunger eradication and poverty reduction at tourist destinations in the Western region of Nghe An.

Strengthening tourism promotion and advertising through modern media with diverse forms such as: photo publications, clips, movies, etc. And one of the key issues to promote tourism potential is the need for a strategy to develop accompanying human resources, in order to develop effectively and sustainably.

Dinh Nguyet - Xuan Hoang