Khanh Hoa tourism growing well

Tourism of Khanh Hoa Province in the first half of 2019 kept rising in tourism number and turnover. Activities of promotion and marketing for tourism has made good effects.

 

Khanh Hoa Province is the host of main events of Visit Vietnam Year 2019. Therefore, the provincial Department of Tourism, the Department of Culture and Sports and related departments have jointly held a lot of activities in the program of Visit Vietnam Year 2019 “Nha Trang – Color of the sea”, highlighted by activities of the Sea Festival 2019. In the first six months of 2019, the provincial Department of Tourism did a lot of tourism promotion activities like welcoming Road Show from China, welcoming a famtrip delegation from Thailand to survey Khanh Hoa tourism, holding a famtrip group to survey and connect tourism with in provinces in Mekong Delta, joining a delegation to Korea to promote tourism hosted by the National Tourism Administration, etc.

 

 

 

Khanh Hoa Province has set target to welcome 7.1 million tourists in 2019 (a 13.5% increase over the figure in 2018), including 3.6 million international tourists (28.8% up). Target tourism turnover is VND23,000 billion, increasing by 4.7%.

According to Nguyen Thi Le Thanh, Deputy director of the provincial Department of Tourism, effect of Visit Vietnam Year 2019 and results of tourism promotion have partly put up the number of visitors to the province. In the first half of 2019, the province received nearly 3.4 million tourists, increasing by 11% year-on-year. Over 1.7 million were international tourists, 24% up. Tourism turnover of the province in the first half reached VND11,000 billion, an 12% increase year-on-year. The number of visitors from Korea and Thailand to Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa rose sharply as airlines have opened direct routes between Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa and these countries.

 

In the first half of 2019, the provincial Department of Tourism intensified the State management on tourism. The department has issued 23,000 volumes of tourism codes of conduct in 4 languages, including Vietnamese, English, Russian and Chinese. In addition, the department suggested the authorities of districts, towns and cities intensifying management and tourist service businesses ensuring safety of traffic and tourists.

 

According to Nguyen Thi Le Thanh, the provincial Department of Tourism and businesses will jointly promote tourism in Thailand and Laos to continue diversifying international tourists to the province. The department will keep intensifying management activities, developing tourism codes of conduct, mobilizing local people to preserving tourism environment, etc.

 

Xuan Thanh

 

Translated by T.T