Tourism authorities and travel operators in the south have adopted various measures to attract tourists to their regions during the post-Covid-19 period, including practicing Covid-19 safety measures effectively, opening new tourist attractions and offering new tourism products and services.
Tourism authorities and travel operators in the south have adopted various measures to attract tourists to their regions during the post-Covid-19 period, including practicing Covid-19 safety measures effectively, opening new tourist attractions and offering new tourism products and services.
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| Visitors are seen at Hai Tac (Pirate) Islands off the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang. Tourism authorities and travel operators in the south have adopted various measures to attract tourists to their regions during the post-Covid-19 period – PHOTO: VNA |
Nguyen Ngoc Thuong, director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Dong Thap Province, said that the province has recognized 14 more community-based tourism sites in the year to date, which contributed to diversifying tourism products in this Mekong Delta province known for lotus fields, reported VietnamPlus.
In HCMC, travel operators have designed and introduced tours with convenient itineraries to safe destinations to meet the demands of various groups of customers.
Tran Doan The Duy, general director of Vietravel, said that Vietravel is offering customers a number of tours using small-sized cars as well as others where customers can use their own vehicles.
Besides this, many tourists have opted for HCMC tours via waterway vehicles.
In addition, a Saigontourist representative said that the HCMC-based travel company had designed tourism products suited to customers’ needs such as tours to domestic, virus-free destinations across the country, with one-day or two- to five-day tours to the Rin Rin Park tourist area in HCMC’s Hoc Mon District, Cu Chi Tunnel in the city’s Cu Chi District or other tourist hotspots in Tay Ninh Province and the Central Highlands.
As for the neighboring province of Dong Nai, Buu Long Investment and Development Company and Hoang Gia Bao Trading and Services Company in the province inked a deal to operate water-based tourism routes on the Dong Nai River, aimed at attracting domestic visitors as international tourism is yet to resume due to the pandemic.
Aside from these measures to boost the domestic tourism segment, local tourism authorities have come up with strategic plans to develop sustainable tourism and contribute to the local socioeconomic growth.
Cao Xuan Thu Van, vice chairwoman of the government in Bac Lieu Province, revealed that this Mekong Delta province set goals to develop its tourism in a sustainable and humane manner by developing wind power tourism and hi-tech agro tourism.
In the coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, the province has plans to design tourism products by effectively tapping local natural resources, leisure tourism, eco tourism, cultural and festival tourism, community-based tourism and hi-tech agro tourism, according to Trinh Hang, director of the provincial Tourism Department.
(Source:SGT)
