Nui Den beach in Ha Tien city of Kien Giang (Photo: VNA) Kien Giang (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province ofKien Giang welcomed nearly 1 million visitors in July, a surge of 75.3 percentcompared to the previous month.
The result pushed the total number of tourists in the firstseven months of this year to 3.42 million, representing a fall of 37 percentyear on year, and fulfilling only 36.6 percent of the yearly target.
According to Deputy Director of the provincial Department ofTourism Bui Quoc Thai, Phu Quoc island was the major attraction to tourists inJuly. The island served over 706,000 visitors in the month and 2.24 million inthe first seven months of 2020, down 25.4 percent over the same period lastyear.
Amidst the complicated developments ofthe COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Tourism has asked all staff to avoidvisiting Da Nang city and localities with infection cases.
The department requested accommodation facilities in theprovince to strictly apply preventive measures against the pandemic followingguidelines of the Health Ministry, especially those in health declarations.
Local travel firms have been asked to cancel all tours to pandemic-hitlocalities, while entertainment centres and tourist destinations have beenequipped with hand sanitizer.
Tran Chi Dung, director of the department, said that in the coming time, theprovince will continue to launch tourism promotion programmes in parallel withthe implementation of preventive measures, thus ensuring safety for tourists.
At the same time, Kien Giang will support pandemic-affectedfirms, while speeding up tourism recovery in Phu Quoc island. It will work on thedevelopment of Ha Tien-Phu Quoc-Nam Du-Rach Gia tour, forming a western seatourism route./.
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