Tourism

Many localities nationwide seek to build a healthy and attractive tourism environment with diversified amenities and improve the quality of products in order to increase experiences and tourist appeal, thus contributing to sustainable tourism development.

The final preparation is urgently implemented by related departments, units, sectors and districts as there are five days left until the opening of the Ninh Binh Tourism Week 2023.

Ninh Binh moves to tap tourism potential of historical relics

Agencies, localities and businesses are actively preparing for the Ninh Binh Tourism Week 2023 scheduled to begin on May 27. With numerous activities, this year's tourism week promises to offer interesting experiences for visitors.

The Trang An Festival 2023 was kicked off at Trang An Landscape Complex in the northern province of Ninh Binh on May 7 (the 18th day of the third lunar month), attracting thousands of delegates and visitors.

The northern province of Ninh Binh saw a boom in the number of tourists during the five-day holidays of Hung Kings Commemoration Day, Reunification Day and International Workers' Day from April 29 to May 3 - the second longest national holidays only after the lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Nearly 3.7 million foreign tourists travelled to Vietnam in the first four months of 2023, accordiing to Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Ninh Binh province expects to welcome a large number of tourists during the holidays of Hung Kings Commemoration Day, National Reunification Day and International Workers' Day from April 30 to May 3. The provincial tourism sector has to date completed all preparations, promising to bring interesting feelings as well as impressive and meaningful experiences to visitors.

In order to create a fresh experience for tourists when visiting Tam Coc on the occasion of Ninh Binh Tourism Week, local villagers have carefully taken care of their paddy field and made it into the shape of a picture "Ly ngu vong nguyet" (carp playing with the full moon).

Tours of craft villages have attracted an increasing number of visitors as they help them to experience production activities and traditional culture, and buy typical products. This is seen as a big opportunity for local traditional craft villages to make the best of their potential in combination with developing tourism, thereby increasing economic efficiency.

The northern province of Ninh Binh is the place where travellers can enjoy the most competitive hotel room rates in April, according to travel website Agoda.

In the past years, the northern province of Ninh Binh has focused resources on investing in tourism infrastructure to create a foundation for the province's tourism integration and development. The province has also been paying more attention to ensuring environmental sanitation and making environmental impact assessments, thereby devising proper measures for management as well as serving tourists.

The four-day Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) wrapped up in Hanoi on April 16 , having attract ed more than 60,000 visitors.

Two projects - Bear Sanctuary Ninh Binh and Asian Carnivore Conservation Centre under the National Wildlife Park - will not only play important role in study and preservation but also contribute to diversifying tourism products and enhancing the province's tourism. Ninh Binh has carried out synchronic measures to remove difficulties and obstacles in an attempt to speed up construction of the projects as scheduled.

A tourism promotion conference entitled: Ninh Binh - Thanh Hoa - Nghe An - Ha Tinh "A journey - Four localities - Many experiences" was organised in Hanoi on April 13.

A seminar on tourism development associated with bear conservation was held in the northern province of Ninh Binh on April 12 by Bear Sanctuary Ninh Binh, gathering representatives of the provincial Tourism Association, travel agencies and accommodation facilities.

The US magazine Forbes has selected Ninh Binh province as one of the 23 best places to travel around the world in 2023, said a representative of the provincial Department of Tourism.

The Canada-based magazine The Travel has revealed its top 10 list of the nation's best tourist attractions that visitors should not miss.

The northern province of Ninh Binh welcomed more than 3.2 million visitors in the first quarter of 2023, a 4.8-fold rise over the same period last year.