Vietravel signed a memorandum of understanding on investment cooperation for a 5-star hotel project in Nghe An

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue and leaders of Vinh province and city chaired the conference. Photo: Lam Tung

Struggling to create a boost for Vinh city tourism

Speaking at the conference, comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province emphasized that contributing to the overall development achievements of the province, Vinh city has emerged as a growth driver, the political - economic - cultural - social center of Nghe An province.

With its geographical location advantage, long history of development, going through many historical stages, Vinh has always been identified as a central urban area not only for Nghe An province, but also the North Central region and has national significance in a number of fields.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Lam Tung

The tourism industry is identified as a key player in local development. However, currently, Vinh city tourism only accounts for about 34% of the number of visitors and about 13% of the province's tourism revenue. To achieve the goal of becoming a tourism center of the North Central region, Vinh city needs to have synchronous solutions to create a boost to promote the development of the "smokeless industry".

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Vo Quang Lien Kha - Deputy General Director of Vietravel "gave advice" on developing tourism in Vinh City. Photo: Lam Tung

“In addition to promoting its inherent strengths of focusing on tourism products for sightseeing and learning about cultural history, to attract and “retain” tourists, Vinh city first of all needs to focus on building new and attractive tourism products, especially night tourism products. Currently, Vietravel is supporting Nghe An province in consulting and designing walking streets in Vinh city; including organizing an art garden and organizing an art water music stage on Ho Tung Mau street. When put into operation, this promises to be an attractive destination for tourists.

In addition, the city needs to develop a plan to regularly organize large-scale festivals and cultural events such as the recently held Nghe An International Cultural, Culinary and Tourism Festival; creating highlights by combining intangible elements such as cuisine, folk songs, folk songs, ethnic customs in villages and lifestyles of ethnic groups in Nghe An...

In addition, the city needs to plan and build international standard conference centers and hotels, commensurate with the general planning. Currently, Vietravel is also implementing a project to build a 5-star hotel in Vinh city to contribute to improving service quality and developing tourism in the province.

Along with that, the city needs to speed up the implementation and completion of projects connecting with the national infrastructure framework; focus on communication and brand building, based on identifying the province's most typical tourism strengths, images, events, symbols... Culinary culture and Vi and Giam folk songs can be developed into Vinh city's tourism brand. Build a model of a modern and smart tourist city based on technology; pay special attention to hygiene, food safety and tourism development in parallel with environmental sustainability.

Focus on improving the quality of tourism human resources. Vietravel's Kent International College, with its strength in training international programs specializing in tourism and commerce, also hopes to connect with a number of prestigious tourism training institutions to support Vinh city in implementing cooperation programs for specialized training in tourism, travel, tour guides, aviation, etc. for human resources at all levels of the Vinh city tourism industry.

Signing ceremony of memorandum of understanding on cooperation in research and investment in construction projectsbuildGuest5-star hotel in Vinh cityPhoto: Lam Tung

On this occasion,Nghe An Provincial People's Committee and Vietnam Transport Tourism and Marketing Joint Stock Company signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in research and investment in the construction project.buildGuest5 star hotel in Vinh city.

Accordingly,Nghe An Provincial People's Committee creates all favorable conditions for investors to research and invest in projects; guides and supports investors in implementing projects.presentlyrelevant legal procedures according to current regulations of Vietnamese law.

"Big guy" actively contributes to developing tourism in Nghe An

In recent times, Nghe An has focused on attracting investment, developing the potential and advantages of a land rich in historical and cultural traditions, rich in natural resources; with a prime geographical location on the country's tourism map; attracting an increasing number of domestic and international visitors.

According to statistics, in 2018, the total number of tourists reached over 6 million, including 128,700 international visitors, an increase of 76.6% compared to 2016. Total revenue from tourists in 2018 reached 7,410 billion VND.

Quang Trung Temple - a famous spiritual tourist destination in Nghe An. Photo courtesy

In the strong development of Nghe An tourism industry, there is a positive contribution of the "big guy" Vietravel. According to the assessment of comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province, over the past 6 years, Nghe An province and Vietravel have had close cooperation in tourism development; making an important contribution to building Nghe An into a financial, technological, educational, cultural and tourism center in the North Central region.

With many investment, exploitation and tourism development promotion activities in Nghe An, Vietravel has created clear marks: Continuously building, implementing and introducing eco-tourism and spiritual tourism products departing from Nghe An; Every year, Vietravel's member companies actively participate in Famtrip delegations to survey tourism in Nghe An; Organizing sports activities; Supporting Nghe An tourism industry to participate in domestic tourism promotion and advertising activities...

Vietravel will support the construction of a walking street - Ho Tung Mau street, Vinh city. Photo: Lam Tung

In order to have long-term and sustainable cooperation in promoting tourism development in Nghe An, in May 2019, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee and Vietravel signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation in tourism development for the period 2019 - 2021.

Accordingly, Vietravel will support the construction of walking streets and food streets with night products; build and develop the brand "Nghe An culinary culture"; support Nghe An province in building a tourism development plan on Lam river, coordinate the organization of tourism products associated with Nghe Tinh folk songs; support training and recruitment of tourism human resources in Nghe An...; strive to increase the number of tourists staying in Nghe An exploited by Vietravel to an average growth of 15-20% per year.