Many Large-scale Tourist Projects in the Pipeline in Central Tourism Site

In the talk with the Vietnam Business Forum, Mr Huynh Duc Tho, Chairman of Ngu Hanh Son District People’s Committee, affirmed: “Ngu Hanh Son will still be an attractive place for tourists. The municipal authority has paid attention to investing in building infrastructure to develop tourism here.

 

A number of high-class coastal projects will stretch from T18 Beach to Hoa Hai, including Hoa Hai Golf Course, Hoang Tra, Eden, P&I, Rising Sun Resort, Silver Shores International and Recreational Resort, Indochina Land Holdings, Sandy beach and Furama. These projects will help increase the tourism, service and commerce to make a breakthrough in local economic development.”

 

Ngu Hanh Son is a richly historical and cultural land. Ngu Hanh Son District was established since Da Nang City was separated from former Quang Nam - Da Nang Province in January 1997. Lying in the southeast of Da Nang City with 12 km of untouched and unpolluted coastline in the east, Ngu Hanh Son is a famous complex of beauty spots with many pagodas, caves, traditional handicraft villages like renowned 300-year-old Non Nuoc stone carving village, traditional festivals like Quan The Am festival (19^th day of the second lunar month), stonework founder anniversary festival (16^th day of the third lunar month) and Buddhist holiday (15^th day of the seven month of the seventh lunar month). Moreover, Ngu Hanh Son lies on the main traffic leading to two world heritages, namely Hoi An ancient town and My Son Sanctuary. Ngu Hanh Son holds much advantage for developing a variety of tourist sites and resorts. This area is also a favourable location for developing urban zone in the southeast of the city.

 

Ngu Hanh Son District is the connecting point to many tourist sites like Son Tra peninsula, Ngu Hanh Son relics and Hoi An ancient town. Thus, the tourist, service and commercial sectors are the spearhead of the district, which record more than 36 per cent a year in the 2006 - 2008 period. Over the past years, the commencement of a number of projects in the district and regional localities together with the construction of main roads and urban zones created new momentums for the new investment for tourist, service and commercial projects. To date, the district has more than 3,250 business households and nearly 200 private enterprises. These economic units have promoted their internal forces, proactively sought markets and input sources to diversify business scopes and products to meet the growing demand of consumers. The city’s People’s Committee also allows the district authority to manage and use money collected from sightseers to build, restore and upgrade relics in Ngu Hanh Son complex and organise specially cultural and social festivals like the national Quan The Am festival, which lured a wide attendance of visitors far and wide.

 

The district is now home to a number of sizeable projects, including a hi-tech city invested by FPT Group. These investment projects will enable Da Nang City in general and Ngu Hanh Son District in particular to develop their strategic economic sectors, mainly tourism and service. Other noteworthy projects include Globe Resort, P & I Resort, Eden, Hoang Tra Ecological Tourist Zone, Thien Thai Hotel and Hoa Hai Golf Course. Additionally, many big projects will be invested to meet the local demand, including the Da Nang University Village, Central and Highland Scientific and Social Institute, Le Van Hien - Tran Dai Nghia road expansion project, a 600-bed hospital and residential zones. Arguably, Ngu Hanh Son now looks like a construction site where many projects are being and going to be carried out. These will give a facelift to the locality in the near future.

 

Annually, the Ngu Hanh Son beauty spot complex welcomes more than 300,000 visitor arrivals, including more than 80,000 internationals. The number of arrivals increases year after year. This is the clear evidence for the attractiveness of this “most beautiful scenery in Vietnam.” In the near future, the district’s People’s Committee will focus on restoring beauty spots and relics. Accordingly, flowers will be grown along the stair corridor leading to the peak of Thuy Son Mount while new star corridors, stop points and souvenir shops will be built in new places in Thuy Son Mount. Surrounding regions of Thuy Son Mount will be cleared to create a better view for this beauty spot. The district will also invest in digging a mountain foot lake and parks and statue gardens. It will also grow suitable trees like climbers in the eastern side of Thuy Son Mount and expand the sightseeing zone toward the east where the Quan The Am Pagoda, the Huong Son Pagoda and the Co Co River are located. We will plan the modern building of Non Nuoc fine art stone carving village under which only environment-friendly production units are maintained, and keep clean the maritime environment to open new resorts. In addition, we have to improve the quality of traditional rituals like Quan The Am festival (19^th day of the second lunar month), stonework founder anniversary festival (16^th day of the third lunar month) and Buddhist holiday (15^th day of the seven month of the seventh lunar month). This is good chances for the locality to popularise its tourism products. Together with relevant municipal agencies, the district will urge the completion of the detail planning for Ngu Hanh Son cultural park to initiate in the earliest time.

 

With 12 km of beautiful coastline in addition to other advantages, Ngu Hanh Son District is carrying out plans to take use of and promote these advantages to develop sea tourism. In the coming time, the district will concentrate on improving the scenery, tourist environment, civilisation and order at T18, Khue My and Non Nuoc beaches. At the same time, we will heighten the quality of restaurant and hotel services, build houses with beautiful gardens and cultured residential wards and open more tours for visitors. We will scale up this model to make Ngu Hanh Son beauty spot complex become a developed tourist destination in combination with a diversity of cultural products and traditional villages in the next 5 - 10 years. To do this, the district has to regularly propagate, educate and build cultured life, promote living, commercial and tourist civilisation, enhance public awareness of maintaining and promoting national cultural identity.