Quang Ninh aims to welcome 15 million visitors this year, including 2 million foreign arrivals. (Photo: VNA) In the first two months of this year, the figuresstood at 3.35 million tourists, doubling that in the same period last year, andmore than 6.5 trillion VND, respectively.
Apart from spiritual tourism, which often sees aboom every spring, cruise services showed a strong recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The province has sketched out a project onsustainable tourism development by 2025 with a vision towards 2030, which setsthe target of serving about 15.5 million holidaymakers every year from now till2025, of whom at least 5 million are foreigners.
By 2030, the number of tourists to Quang Ninh is projectedto reach at least 25.4 million, including 8.6 million foreigners. The sector isexpected to contribute 11% to the locality’s gross regional domestic product(GRDP).
Quang Ninh aims to welcome 15 million visitors thisyear, including 2 million foreign arrivals, and rake in 32.4 trillion VND fromthe industry.
To that end, it will organise nearly 200 culturaland tourism events, notably the Carnival Ha Long, a trade fair and the TranQuoc Nghien Temple festival slated for April.
US magazine Travel Leisure has recently named HaLong Bay among the four idyllic seaside places across Asia to watch sunrise andsunset.
According to the magazine, UNESCO World Heritagesite Ha Long Bay, with more than 2,000 limestone islands, is a tourism mecca inAsia.
It recommends that the best way to avoid the bustleis to dodge the day trips and do a two-night cruise. This will allow visitorsto take in clusters of islands too far for day-trippers or overnighters to getto, and allow them to surrender to the rhythms of the sea and the sun.
“Once afloat you can watch both sunrise and sunsetfrom the deck—its ascent over the Gulf of Tonkin and denouement behind the slewof islands, bays and iconic limestone outcrops. Then wait a while longer…because it’s the blue hour, that twilight time between dusk and darkness, whenthe locals believe Ha Long Bay is at its most beautiful,” the magazine said.
Other three places Travel Leisure recommends forsunset and sunrise watching in Asia are Romblon Island in Philippines, KuakataBeach in Bangladesh, and Kenting National Park in Taiwan (China)./.
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