Thua Thien-Hue honours outstanding tourism businesses

Outstanding tourism businesses were honoured during a ceremony held on September 27 by the People’s Committee of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
Thua Thien-Hue honours outstanding tourism businesses ảnh 1 Top seven travel agents were honoured in Thua Thien-Hue tourism awards this year (Photo: VNA)
Thua Thien – Hue (VNA) –Outstanding tourism businesses were honoured during a ceremony held onSeptember 27 by the People’s Committee of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Accordingly, the awards for leading hoteloperators were presented to Laguna Vietnam, and Kinh Thanh Hotel.

The top seven travel agents honoured this yearinclude Vietnam Travel and Marketing Transports (Vietravel), Vietnamtourism HanoiJSC, Apex Viet Nam Travel, Viet Media Travel, Saigontourist Travel Service’s DaNang chapter, Vidotour Indochina Travel, and HG Hue JSC.

The top catering service provider award washanded over to DMZ Tourist, while Thien Huong received the title of topshopping service. The transport services award was presented to Phuong Ty Co.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Nguyen Dung, who is also head of the organising board, said the ThuaThien-Hue tourism awards aim to improve the quality of tourism services in theprovince.

Thua Thien-Hue aims to attract 4-4.2 millionvisitors this year, which would be a rise of 10-12 percent year-on-year, withabout 40-45 percent being foreigners. It hopes to record a 15 percent increasein tourism revenue to 4.2-4.3 trillion VND (184-189 million USD).

From the outset of the year, the province has organiseda string of activities including cultural festivities, art performances, andcuisine festivals to lure more tourists to the locality.

It has also been raising the region’sattractiveness with public decorations, such as dressing the the Ky Dai (FlagTower) with 1,000 LED lights and firing cannons from the tower.

The province recently approved a project worth27 billion VND (1.15 million USD) to light up Dai Noi (Imperial Citadel) withLED bulbs to create another visual highlight for the city. 

Thua Thien-Hue is working to improve its tourismportal in Vietnamese and English, linking with the portals of the VietnamNational Tourism Administration, as well as other localities and internationalcities to promote its tourism.

In the first nine months of 2018, Thua Thien-Huewelcomed nearly 3.5 million visitors, including 1.42 foreigners. Tourismrevenue is so-far estimated at 3.38 trillion VND (144.67 million USD), up about30.5 percent year-on-year. –VNA 
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