Khanh Hoa promotes cooperation and association in tourism development with Phu Yen and Ninh Thuan

(Fatherland) - The tourism sectors of the provinces discussed and found effective solutions to improve the efficiency of cooperation and tourism development in the coming time.

On the afternoon of November 22, in Nha Trang City (Khanh Hoa Province), Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee coordinated with Phu Yen Provincial People's Committee and Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee to organize a conference to review tourism development cooperation in 2024.

Conference scene.

At the end of 2023, Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Tourism signed a cooperation agreement on tourism development for the period 2023 - 2025 with Ninh Thuan Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Phu Yen Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, on the basis of promoting the role of the provinces in connecting tourism, creating a widespread connection in many fields in a sustainable direction, mainly focusing on 4 areas: Cooperation in State management of tourism; Cooperation in developing tourism products; Cooperation in promoting and advertising tourism; Cooperation in training and fostering tourism human resources.

Mr. Le Huu Hoang - Permanent Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee spoke.

According to Mr. Le Huu Hoang - Permanent Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee, this is an opportunity for the three localities to evaluate the effectiveness of cooperation and tourism development cooperation in 2024. Thereby, grasping the existing problems, difficulties and obstacles in cooperation and tourism development in the past time, proposing effective solutions to improve the effectiveness of cooperation and tourism development between Khanh Hoa province and other provinces in the coming time.

At the conference, delegates exchanged and discussed many issues, focusing on the following contents: Solutions to connect tourism products to form inter-regional tourism routes in the South Central Coast; Sharing tourism information to promote the development of tourist sources, diversify tourism products, create unique tourism products; Forming common tours with unique characteristics of each locality to build a common brand of Khanh Hoa - Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa - Ninh Thuan;...

Tourists visit a vineyard in Ninh Phuoc district, Ninh Thuan province.

Mr. Phan Dinh Phung - Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Province Department of Tourism said that over the past year, the Departments, sectors, Tourism Associations and businesses of the three provinces have proactively developed plans, promoted tourism and introduced tourism products at major tourism events; supported each other to create unique and distinctive tourism programs of the region and its advantages in tourism potential.

Notably, in cooperation in developing tourism products, Khanh Hoa tourism industry has coordinated with Ninh Thuan and Phu Yen tourism industries to conduct surveys of new tourist destinations in the provinces, jointly build tours connecting destinations of the localities; put these routes and tourist destinations into the program to introduce, promote and exploit effectively to serve domestic and international tourists,... Phu Yen and Ninh Thuan provinces also attended and coordinated to organize conferences on cooperation and promotion of tourism in Khanh Hoa.

Mr. Phan Dinh Phung - Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Tourism spoke.

Regarding cooperation in developing tourism human resources, the provinces have coordinated, informed, and promoted programs, short-term training courses on tourism to notify the Provincial Tourism Association and tourism businesses in the area to send personnel to participate or introduce businesses and individuals to participate in programs, training courses, and tourism human resources training organized by localities;...

“The cooperation not only brings about product diversification but also aims to exploit the outstanding tourism products between localities, leaving many good impressions on domestic and foreign tourists,” said Mr. Phung, adding that the cooperation has created conditions for the tourism sectors of the provinces to exchange and learn experiences, and develop together; the team of civil servants and public employees in the tourism sector is increasingly perfected, improving their skills and professionalism.

Tourists enjoy Cham dance at Ponagar Tower Nha Trang.

However, the leader of Khanh Hoa Province Department of Tourism admitted that the cooperation in building tours and tourist routes associated with local events has not been optimally promoted; general promotion work is still limited and not very effective; businesses have not paid due attention to cooperating, building and providing unique tourism programs and products with strong regional imprints; there is a lack of cooperation in organizing common cultural tourism events between localities to create a series of attractive tourism events and products to attract tourists;...

Accordingly, Mr. Phung proposed and recommended 5 contents to promote cooperation in tourism development between Khanh Hoa province and Phu Yen, Ninh Thuan. Emphasizing that in the coming time, when organizing the signing of cooperation agreements and tourism development cooperation with localities, it is necessary to clearly set goals on the number of visitors achieved, preferential policies when participating in cooperation agreements, etc.

Tourists visit Mui Dien, Dong Hoa Town, Phu Yen Province.

"Regularly review, summarize, evaluate, draw lessons and propose new development solutions, not just sign a formal agreement," Mr. Phung stated, while affirming that it is necessary to strongly change thinking, innovate ways of doing things, connect and develop so that when connecting, we start doing the work that needs to be done, tourists will be able to come and go to the two localities to benefit from common preferential policies and services commensurate with the strengths of each locality.

Along with that, the provinces need to cooperate in tourism promotion activities as well as in building management policies, developing tourism products and resources in the coming years to gradually position the tourism brand among localities as the most valuable and interesting destination in Vietnam with diverse products and good service quality;...

Also at this conference, Khanh Hoa tourism businesses signed a cooperation document on tourism development with Phu Yen and Ninh Thuan tourism businesses.

Mr. Dao My - Vice Chairman of Phu Yen Provincial People's Committee affirmed: Phu Yen will promote linkage and cooperation with provinces in the South Central Coast region to form a unified entity to develop common, specific tourism products that are highly competitive with other regions in the country.

At the same time, organize survey programs to evaluate the unique tourism resources of each locality, on that basis build, form and develop tourism products with linkages, create attractiveness and enhance competitiveness, ... organize activities, events to promote tourism and destination images of each locality at home and abroad, in order to create a common destination brand to attract tourists to each locality.

“In the near future, it is possible to form a tourism product of the Ninh Thuan – Khanh Hoa – Phu Yen heritage journey by train to serve tourists to experience sightseeing, enjoy cuisine and experience local culture,” Mr. My proposed. Periodically, the three provinces will organize a delegation to survey foreign markets to promote tourism products, especially introducing the common product “A journey of three destinations”./.

Source: https://toquoc.vn/khanh-hoa-day-manh-hop-tac-va-lien-ket-phat-trien-du-lich-voi-phu-yen-ninh-thuan-20241122183916134.htm