Representatives of the HCM City Department of Tourism and eight tour operators last Sunday began a long-week trip to the central highlands provinces and the southeastern coastal province of Binh Thuan to sign agreements on tourism cooperation.
The department inked deals with four tourism bodies of Dac Nong, Dak Lak, Kon Tum, and Gia Lai during the trip, deputy director of the department La Quoc Khanh said, revealing that the city will help train tourism workers from the four provinces and support them to develop tourism products.
“We will focus on supporting these tourism departments to develop their potential products like eco tours,'” he also said.
Unlike HCM City, a leading tourism city with 1.28 million international arrivals in the first half of this year, the tourism industry of the four provinces is underdeveloped.
In the first half, Kon Tum welcomed over 9,000 foreigners out of 23,258 tourists. Meanwhile, Gia Lai expects to receive 20,000 foreign tourists in the next three years.
The two provinces are near the Bo Y border gate in Kon Tum province, where the right-hand-drive vehicles can enter the country. Taking that advantage, HCM City tourism authority wants to join forces with them to develop tourism links with the region.
Another agreement to be inked this weekend with famous destinations comprising Lam Dong and Binh Thuan is a special deal to make a triangle tourism development between HCM City and the two provinces.
“The deal will seek to develop tours that link tourist attractions along the triangle,” Khanh said, adding that home to the resort city of Phan Thiet, the southeastern coastal province of Binh Thuan has favorable conditions for developing sea tourism, while Dalat (Lam Dong) is well-known as a flower city where eco-tourism has great potential.
“The cooperation will help the parties involved perfect tourism products for development,” Khanh said. (VietNamNet, Saigon Times Daily)
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