Quang Ninh has a long coastline in most localities in the area, including the famous Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay. With that advantage, in recent years, the province has focused on exploiting and making sea tourism one of the important tasks in economic development.
The province continues to expand the space for developing marine tourism in 4 regions, in which Ha Long - Bai Tu Long Bay is the main marine tourism cluster, associated with marine tourism products in Van Don, Co To, Mong Cai and connected with the system of attractive tourist areas, routes, destinations, and urban areas. Accordingly, in mid-2024, the Provincial People's Committee announced 21 sightseeing routes in Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay. This is also the orientation for building tourist destinations and marine tourism products in the province in the coming time.
Currently, 12/13 localities in the province have been recognized as tourist routes and destinations. Accordingly, the province has 1 national tourist area of Tra Co (Mong Cai), 5 provincial tourist areas, and 87 tourist destinations.
Along with that, the province continues to promote high-quality, unique, diverse tourism products and types with high added value for sea and island tourism, such as: Sun World Ha Long Park complex, Vinpearl resort, FLC, Yoko Osen Quang Hanh mineral spring, Provincial Museum - Library complex, "Night Cruise Street" product for sightseeing along the coast of Ha Long Bay at Ha Long International Port... These are tourism products that have created a prominent brand, contributing to extending the experience, stay and increasing spending of tourists when coming to Quang Ninh. At the same time, the province also focuses on developing community tourism to ensure the orientation with 3 main areas: Eastern tourism space, Western tourism space and central tourism space.
Of the 67 tourism products currently being exploited to serve tourists in the province, there are 38 new tourism products, including many sea and island tourism products in Ha Long Bay, Van Don, Co To, Hai Ha, and Dam Ha.
The province has also implemented information promotion and tourism promotion activities in a synchronous and effective manner, in many diverse and rich forms, such as: Building publications promoting Quang Ninh tourism to serve conferences and seminars promoting tourism inside and outside the province; organizing a meeting of the Council to evaluate 3 scenarios of 360-degree image filming service to serve tourism promotion on the integrated tourism information portal system; enhancing the application of information technology to promote and introduce images and tourism products of localities... Thanks to that, some international tourist markets have increased sharply such as: China, the US, the UK, Spain, Canada...
Recently, on November 20, in Ha Long City, the Quang Ninh Department of Tourism coordinated with the Quang Ninh Tourism Association and Sun Group to organize the "Quang Ninh - Four Seasons Destination" tourism stimulus cooperation announcement ceremony with the participation of 340 businesses including restaurants, hotels, and tourist attractions to increase competitiveness and attract more tourists at the end of 2024 as well as increase the momentum for the tourism industry in 2025 and the following years.
Mr. Pham Van Hiep, General Director of Ha Long Sun Company Limited, Sun Group Northern region in Quang Ninh said: The company has implemented ticket incentives for Dragon Park, cable car. At Yoko Osen Quang Hanh mineral spring area, accompanying service packages are reduced by up to 51%. This incentive is implemented from now until the end of 2024. In the coming time, the company will continue to research and develop discount packages to attract tourists.
In addition to expanding the space for tourism development, Quang Ninh encourages investors in tourism service infrastructure in the area. Quang Ninh has a system of new high-quality 4-5 star hotels and unique, diverse, international-level resorts that have come into operation to serve tourists, such as hotels: Muong Thanh, Ha Thanh; Seastar; Da Dung Island - Dam Ha tourist area...
Tourism infrastructure has developed, increasing rapidly in quantity and improving service quality. Currently, there are 1,625 establishments with 36,437 classified rooms in the area. There are 82 high-end hotels and resorts with 3 stars or more, with 12,182 rooms. There are 20 business establishments in the province that meet the standards for serving tourists, including 13 shopping spots, 5 restaurants, and 2 entertainment establishments.
Quang Ninh also has modern overnight cruise ships on the bay that provide interesting experiences for tourists, including 5 3-star cruise ship accommodations with 217 rooms; 57 2-star cruise ship accommodations with 1,111 rooms; 34 1-star cruise ships with 345 rooms and 5 cruise ship accommodations that meet minimum standards with 56 rooms.
Along with that, the system of passenger ports and wharves on the island routes has been completed synchronously, promoting the tourist boat system on Ha Long Bay, Van Don, and Co To to increasingly develop in a modern, safe, and high-quality direction.
Thanks to the timely implementation of solutions and policies to stimulate tourism, including sea tourism, the province's tourism continues to develop, affirming the brand and position of Quang Ninh, one of the major tourist centers of the country. According to the province's estimates, in 2024, the number of tourists to Quang Ninh will reach about 19 million, an increase of 20% compared to 2023, of which international visitors will reach 3.5 million. Total tourism revenue is estimated at VND 46,460 billion, an increase of 38% compared to 2023.
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