Binh Thuan Tourism: When the brand is affirmed

Binh Thuan tourism with blue sea - white sand - golden sunshine has spread far and wide, becoming a safe, friendly and trusted destination for tourists from all over the country and abroad. Diversifying tourism products Binh Thuan with a temperate climate, warm sunshine all year round, with a 192km long coastline, is one of the 5 provinces with the longest coastline in Vietnam with many beautiful beaches, many nature reserves, famous cultural relics, such as: Ong Mountain, Ta Cu Mountain, Phu Quy Island Marine Reserve, Cu Lao Cau with diverse biodiversity; Binh Thuan also has many national cultural festivals such as: Kate Festival of the Cham people, Nghinh Ong Festival of the Chinese community in Phan Thiet, Cau Ngu Festival in Van Thuy Tu Phan Thiet, Dinh Thay Thim Festival in La Gi... Besides, Binh Thuan has rich natural tourism resources associated with the sea, islands, lakes, waterfalls, forests, along with dozens of historical, cultural and revolutionary relics, many traditional crafts and the unique and sophisticated culinary arts blended and interwoven by 35 ethnic groups, creating Binh Thuan's attractiveness for tourism.

In recent years, Binh Thuan has identified itself as a tourist destination, attracting tourists with various types of tourism such as: sea sports tourism, luxury resorts, cultural - festival tourism, spiritual tourism, etc.; Binh Thuan tourism has made progress. In addition to the types of sea resort tourism, picnics, entertainment, visiting coastal tourist areas and spots, religious tourism through traditional festivals has attracted a large number of tourists, especially domestic tourists during the summer, holidays, New Year and weekends. Binh Thuan has also promoted agricultural tourism, forest - sea - sand hill ecology, conference tourism (MICE), community tourism, etc., attracting a large number of tourists, especially in Phan Thiet, La Gi, Ham Thuan Nam, Tuy Phong and Phu Quy. In particular, the Phu Quy island tourism route is a destination attracting a large number of tourists to explore and experience. Recently, Binh Thuan has formed a number of new tourism products and destinations such as: NovaWorld Beach - amusement park, Wonderland water park, adventure entertainment area in Centara complex, agricultural tourism, Binh Thuan Provincial Party Committee Base relic site during the resistance war against the US... contributing to diversifying tourism products, attracting more tourists. Vegetable, flower, ornamental plant production areas, dragon fruit farms, fish sauce production facilities, seafood processing, handicraft production... are encouraged and supported to operate, contributing to serving the tourism development needs of the province. The system of tourist accommodation facilities in the province continues to develop, with increasingly high quality. The whole province currently has 597 accommodation facilities in operation with a total of 19,096 rooms. In addition, there are 315 tourist villas and 1,019 tourist apartments; there are 22 units operating in international and domestic travel business. The active tour guide force is 118 people, including 31 international guides, 51 domestic guides and 36 on-site guides.

Attracting tourists Binh Thuan's tourism products have become increasingly attractive and diverse with a constantly developing system of tourist accommodation facilities, increasingly high quality, attracting domestic and foreign tourists. In 2023, Binh Thuan welcomed about 8.3 million visitors, of which international visitors reached about 220,000. The number of tourists to the province increased by an average of 16.28%/year, of which international visitors increased by an average of 2.07 times/year; domestic visitors increased by an average of 14.8%/year. Up to now, Binh Thuan tourism has positioned the Mui Ne - Phan Thiet tourism brand on the world tourism map, voted and recognized by many prestigious magazines as an ideal destination such as: Mui Ne is one of the 10 best tourist beaches in the world (Bounce); Mui Ne is one of the 10 most beautiful beaches in Vietnam (Forbes Magazine; Lonely Planet Travel Guide, USA); Mui Ne is one of the 6 economic destinations for autumn holidays (booking.com)... Many experts believe that after the success of the National Tourism Year - Binh Thuan "Green Convergence" in 2023, tourism in Binh Thuan province will grow in both quality and quantity, becoming one of the attractive destinations in the country. Although well received, it must be recognized that Binh Thuan tourism still has certain shortcomings and limitations. Accordingly, to improve and position the tourism brand, Binh Thuan will continue to organize well tourism promotion and advertising activities. Digital transformation in promoting tourist destinations is also focused on, such as building websites and smart tourism information portals. In particular, to further enhance the "diversification of advantageous tourism services of the province", in the coming time, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will continue to advise on the effective implementation of the Project "Building Binh Thuan into a national center for marine tourism and sports" including hosting national and international sports competitions. Well implement the Phan Thiet City tour project and the Plan to implement the project to preserve and promote the values ​​of folk songs, folk dances, and folk music of ethnic minorities associated with tourism development in the period of 2022 - 2030. Regularly organize programs to survey new and attractive tourism products and types such as new tourist attractions in Mui Ne - Phan Thiet, Bau Trang, Cu Lao Cau, Ham Thuan - Da Mi lake, Ke Ga - Ham Thuan Nam, Thac Ba - Tanh Linh, Phu Quy island, Ta Nang - Phan Dung tourist route, "up the forest, down to the sea" tour, "mainland, sea and island" tour... At the same time, Binh Thuan focuses on protecting, conserving, and developing nature reserves, mangrove forests, and marine reserves; protecting existing forest areas; planting forests, reforesting and restoring forests to cover bare land areas, bare hills, creating a green environment and fresh climate to contribute to attracting tourism. Preserve the existing natural landscape; develop other areas with potential for ecotourism development in the future. Effectively implement the project to develop sustainable ecotourism with community participation in Hon Cau Marine Reserve. Along with the province's innovation, Binh Thuan tourism has made impressive developments, affirming its outstanding strength as one of the three main development pillars. In the coming time, Binh Thuan tourism will always be in the mindset of improving its competitiveness with other coastal localities to develop typical tourism products towards environmental protection to retain tourists. Source: https://baobinhthuan.com.vn/du-lich-binh-thuan-khi-thuong-hieu-duoc-khang-dinh-124164.html