A corner of Lang Co bay (Photo VNA)Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The centralprovince of Thua Thien-Hue welcomed over 3.1 million tourists in the first 10months of 2017, a year-on-year rise of 16.2 percent.
The number of international visitors to theprovince increased 35 percent to 1.2 million in the ten-month period.
The tourism sector raked in 2.8 trillion VND(12.3 million USD) in revenues, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent.
Deputy Director of the provincial Department ofTourism Le Huu Minh said Thua Thien-Hue will work to surpass the yearly targetof receiving 3.5 million holidaymakers via increasing boat services on theHuong (Perfume) river and opening pedestrian streets while improving quality ofproducts and services.
The province will promote investment indeveloping various forms of tourism such as spiritual, cultural, resort,medical, heritage and maritime tourism while building hi-end tourism areas atthe Chan May – Lang Co bay - one of the world's 10 most beautiful bays voted bythe Worldbays Club.
The tourism sector will also seek to attractmore vacationers from traditional markets such as the Republic of Korea andJapan.
Hue, which was the imperial capital of Vietnamfor over 100 years, is home to five heritages recognised by UNESCO, whichare Hue ancient citadel relic complex - a World Cultural Heritage site; NhaNhac (Hue royal court music) - an intangible cultural heritage item; NguyenDynasty’s wood blocks - a documentary heritage item; Nguyen Dynasty’s Chau ban(royal administrative documents) - part of the Asia-Pacific Register ofUNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme; and literature on Hue royalarchitecture - a documentary heritage.
The Hue imperial citadel relic has been rankedsecond among top seven tourism attractions of Vietnam in 2017.-VNA
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