Ha Tay Province Seeks Approval for Second Golf Course

The northern Ha Tay province, the neighboring province of Hanoi has submitted a plan to the Ministry of Planning and Investment to build its second golf course worth US$22 million.

 

If approved, the golf course, which is planned to be situated in Chuong My District, will be the fourth in the north and the second in Ha Tay province.

 

The project has been one of two foreign-invested ones in the province awaiting licenses from the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The other project is the building of the Mo Lao Urban Complex in the provincial capital of Ha Dong with an investment capital of US$60 million.

 

Ha Tay is home to a hundred beautiful landscapes and tourism destinations including Ao Vua, Khoang Sanh and Suoi Tien. The province is estimated to welcome some 90,000 foreign arrivals of the total 1.88 million visitors to the locality in the first six months of 2006, up around 30-65 per cent. It also revealed a total tourism revenue of nearly VND251.6 million ($15,900) during the period. 

 

Currently, there are three golf courses that have come up in northern Vietnam namely the Dong Mo golf course in Ha Tay, Chi Linh course in Hai Duong province, and Tam Dao in Vinh Phuc province.

 

The ministry expects that many big golf course projects such as the wholly Japanese-invested golf course in Hanoi, Kim No golf course, and thr wholly South Korea-invested Lang Son course in Hoa Binh province, which will be the largest in Southeast Asia, will be put into operation by the end of this year.

 

By late 2005, Vietnam had 10 operational golf courses and 13 others under construction.
VietNamNet