Don't miss the international visitor season

The last months of the year are the international tourist season in Quang Ninh. In order not to miss the chance to welcome this influx of visitors, the Quang Ninh tourism industry has quickly overcome the consequences caused by Typhoon Yagi and implemented many activities to stimulate demand and provide attractive experiences for tourists.

Officers and soldiers of Border Guard Squadron 2 responded to the campaign "3 days to clean up Ha Long Bay". *Photo: Nguyen Chien*

Overnight stay and visit Ha Long Bay is a special product that all international tourists when coming to Quang Ninh want to experience. Therefore, autumn and winter are also considered the international tourist season of Ha Long Bay. To prepare conditions to welcome guests, create a good impression for tourists when coming to Ha Long, from September 15-17, Quang Ninh province launched the peak campaign "3 days to clean Ha Long Bay". Accordingly, each day there are 35-50 vehicles and 150-200 officers, employees, soldiers, employees of tourism businesses in Ha Long Bay participating in collecting, transporting garbage, cleaning the heritage bay.

The fleet of restaurants, sightseeing and accommodation vessels on the Bay is also ready to welcome guests with the highest safety and service quality. Specifically, 315/359 sightseeing vessels, restaurant vessels and accommodation vessels, equivalent to 88% of the total number of vessels on Ha Long Bay are ready to serve tourists.

As a destination chosen by many international tourists, Quang Ninh Museum is also rushing to complete repairs, aiming to reopen on October 1. Along with that, Quang Ninh Museum is speeding up the progress of damage reports, technical and economic reports and carrying out necessary procedures to promptly repair and comprehensively overcome the consequences caused by Typhoon Yagi.

Mr. Do Quyet Tien, Director of Quang Ninh Museum said: “Along with temporarily repairing the damage caused by Typhoon Yagi, Quang Ninh Museum will introduce new services such as an automatic explanation system in two languages, English and Vietnamese; adjusting the biodiversity display space and implementing an educational experience program on history and culture, targeting mainly students at schools in the province. Striving to achieve the goal of welcoming 750,000 visitors in 2024”.

Also a "specialized" address serving international tourists, Ha Long Pearl Joint Stock Company is racing against time to restore production and business activities.

Although the four standard shopping attractions of Ha Long Pearl, namely the Pearl Farm in Vung Vieng, Bo Hon Island in Ha Long Bay, My Ngoc store and Le Pearl, were all severely affected by the storm, with the determination to bring production and business activities back to normal, not missing the peak season, Ha Long Pearl Joint Stock Company immediately repaired My Ngoc store after the storm. On September 13, the company welcomed more than 200 international tourists to visit and shop.

The first international tourists experienced the My Ngoc sightseeing and shopping spot of Ha Long Pearl on September 13.

As one of the first visitors to My Ngoc store, Ms. Martina Gonzalez (a Spanish tourist) shared: "It's unbelievable that you have just experienced a terrible storm. When I arrived here, I could see that the trees and landscape were damaged a lot, but you still ensured the conditions to welcome visitors very safely. We were introduced to how the workers raise pearls, cultivate pearls and make pearls. I have chosen for myself very meaningful gifts for my relatives."

Ms. Nguyen Thuy Huong, Director of Ha Long Pearl Joint Stock Company, shared: “Preparing conditions to welcome guests at this time is both a challenge and an opportunity for us. The challenge is that we have to try 5 times harder than usual to bring production and business activities back. The opportunity is that if we successfully welcome the 2024 international tourist season, we will recover faster. Ha Long Pearl is determined to join the recovery efforts of Ha Long and Quang Ninh tourism as soon as possible to overcome the consequences caused by the storm and bring production and business activities back to normal.”

Visitors listen to an introduction to the pearl farming process.

Also according to Ms. Huong, after My Ngoc, Ha Long Pearl strives to put Le Pearl store into service for tourists from September 28 and strives to complete part of the pearl farm on Ha Long Bay by the end of 2024.

In 2024, Quang Ninh aims to welcome 19 million visitors, including 3.5 million international visitors. By the end of August 2024, the province had welcomed 14.7 million visitors, of which 2.4 million were international visitors (equivalent to 68.57% of the plan).

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