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Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park attracts over 660,000 visitors

Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park, a world natural heritage site in the central province of Quang Binh, has welcomed more than 662,000 visitors so far this year, rising over 6% from 2022, its management board reported.
Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park attracts over 660,000 visitors ảnh 1Visitors to Thien Duong (Paradise) Cave in Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (Photo: VNA)
QuangBinh (VNA) – Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park, a world naturalheritage site in the central province of Quang Binh, has welcomed more than662,000 visitors so far this year, rising over 6% from 2022, its management boardreported.

Theyinclude over 83,000 international arrivals, up 231%. Meanwhile, the park’s tourismrevenue has increased 23% to approximate 270 billion VND (11.1 million USD)this year, statistics show.

The board attributed those results to various measures taken to attractmore tourists, including promoting the marketing of tourism products andservices via many channels, especially digital platforms, to grab travellers’interest.

It has coordinated with travel establishments and companies to offer manynew tourism products and services like the tour of Ba Cave, the one at PhongNha Cave at night, and another of Xuyen Son Ho – a lake located 4,500m deepinto Phong Nha Cave.

AtPhong Nha Cave, lighting experts have been invited to give advice about light arrangementinside the cave to ensure aesthetics as well as brightness for visitors toexplore this destination.

Manyfacilities at the Chay River - Toi Cave and Nuoc Mooc Spring ecotourism areashave also been upgraded to better serve travellers.

Inaddition, the park management board is also speeding up the building andupgrade of many facilities and the landscape of Tien Son Cave so that thisplace will be reopened by the end of this year.

Phong Nha - Ke BangNational Park, covering over 123,000 ha, harbours terrestrial and aquatichabitats, primary and secondary forests, sites of natural regeneration, and tropicaldense forests. It is also rich in large, often spectacular, and scientificallysignificant caves, including Son Doong - the world's largest cave. 

The property has been honoured as a world natural heritagesite twice.

On July 3, 2003, the World HeritageCommittee of UNESCO recognised this park as a world natural heritage for thesite’s exceptional global value in terms of geology and geomorphology.

Twelve years later, onJuly 3, 2015, the park was once again honoured, this time for the criteria of outstanding value representing the evolutionary and developmentprocesses of terrestrial ecosystems, and possessing meaningful natural habitatsfor biodiversity conservation./.
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