Bac Ninh promotes spiritual tourism potential

The northern province of Bac Ninh has actively applied numerous measures to fully tap its spiritual tourism potential.
Bac Ninh promotes spiritual tourism potential ảnh 1Lim festival in Bac Ninh (Source: VNA)
Bac Ninh (VNA) – The northern province of Bac Ninh has actively appliednumerous measures to fully tap its spiritual tourism potential.

Nguyen Van Anh, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sportsand Tourism, communication campaigns will be promoted in order to raise theawareness of the role of tourism, particularly spiritual tourism, among levels,sectors and the community.

Besides, the province has been investing in technical infrastructure fortourism, including the expansion of tourism services and the construction of ports,wharves and infrastructure facilities along the Duong and Cau Rivers to connectspiritual tourism destinations.

Apart from mapping out number of typical spiritual tourism tours, Bac Ninh willfocus on personnel training, particularly tour guides and safety and securityfor tourists.

Bac Ninh is home to 1,558 historical and cultural relic sites. Of which, nearly200 are national relic sites and four are national special relic sites,including  1,000-year-old Phat TichPagoda in Tien Du district, Do Temple in Tu Son township.

The province also features 547 traditional festivals and 60 traditional tradevillages.

Over the past years, the province has issued numerous policies to promotespiritual tourism potential. Hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong have beenpoured into upgrading and restoring local relic sites.

The province welcomes around 3 million visitors each year, mostly to religioussites and festivals in the Spring.-VNA
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