Leaders of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee work with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Meeting scene

According to the report of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, after receiving the press and publishing functions, the organizational structure of the Department currently includes: 1 Director, 4 Deputy Directors, 6 departments and 5 affiliated units with 50 civil servants, 129 officials, and 26 contract workers.

The Department has successfully organized the Party Congress for the term 2025 - 2030. Press and publishing management, perfecting the organizational structure, continuously performing functions and tasks, without interruption of operations. The Department has submitted to the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and approval of the Project to merge the Film Distribution and Screening Center into the Lam Dong Cultural and Arts Center.

Comrade Nguyen Trung Kien - Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism reported on the implementation of the industry's functions and tasks in the first 3 months of 2025.

Regarding culture, the Central Highlands Gong Culture Festival is held annually in rotation across the Central Highlands provinces, with Lam Dong hosting in 2026.

Every year, the province organizes the Cultural and Sports Festival for ethnic minorities; at the same time, this Festival also takes place in districts and cities that have practically preserved, maintained and promoted the heritage value of the Central Highlands Gong Cultural Space.

The Department is preparing to organize major events: Hung King Commemoration Festival; 50th Anniversary of Da Lat - Lam Dong Liberation Day; Lam Dong Cultural Day Program in Hanoi...

Representatives of the Sports Training Center raised difficulties in facilities, training conditions, and allowance mechanisms for athletes.

Representative of Film Distribution and Screening Center expressed his opinion on linking films with tourism promotion.

Lam Dong Museum's opinion on organizing many attractive events to attract tourists

Opinions of the Provincial Center for Culture and Arts on the mechanism for professional performance activities of the Southern Central Highlands Art Troupe

The opinions of key officials of departments, offices and units under the Department have stated many achievements, along with difficulties and problems regarding: Having a professional operating mechanism for the Southern Central Highlands Ethnic Arts Troupe (under the Provincial Cultural and Art Center); the system of institutions and facilities serving cultural and sports activities is not suitable and does not meet the requirements (Lam Vien Square - where many events take place, each time an event is held, it is very expensive to build a stage; The multi-purpose stadium received from the Lottery Company is not suitable; The Wild Sunflower Theater mainly organizes film screenings...)

High-level sports have made much progress, but the cost of sports activities is difficult; to promote a team, it is necessary to invest money and increase the bonus level; training, competition, salary and bonus regimes for athletes are still too low; training conditions, facilities to host national tournaments, and to link sports with tourism are still lacking.

The management of tourism projects involves many sectors and levels. The Tourism Law and related legal documents still have many contradictions and inadequacies, causing difficulties for tourism management...

Leaders of specialized departments under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism attended the meeting.

In an exchange with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Tran Hong Thai - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee raised issues on promoting the values ​​of national cultural identity, the spirit of solidarity of 47 ethnic groups, promoting the value of the Central Highlands Gong Cultural Space Heritage to promote tourism development; raising the scale of the province's gong festival to become a unique tourism product to attract visitors; exploiting and effectively using existing infrastructure such as the stage of the Wild Sunflower Theater and Lam Vien Square.

Promote the socialization of high-level sports activities, especially investment in developing football teams; host many national and international sports tournaments to attract tourists to Da Lat - Lam Dong. Tourism development must first of all be legal and proper; improve the quality of tourism products to promote the potential strengths of the province.

Manage, connect, and provide press information in an open spirit but within the framework of regulations; develop an effective reading culture suitable for the digital age of Industry 4.0...

Comrade Dinh Van Tuan - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee gave a speech at the meeting.

Concluding the meeting, Comrade Dinh Van Tuan - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the results achieved by the culture, sports and tourism sector in the first 3 months of the year, with many positive changes and improvements in each field of culture, sports, tourism, press - publishing and family.

At the same time, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directed: As a multi-sectoral, multi-field management department, in the coming time, the staff needs to closely follow the requirements of the tasks to advise the superiors; closely follow the assigned functions, tasks, and characteristics of Lam Dong to advise the province. Focus on innovative, creative, and breakthrough activities based on inheriting the results of events and achieved programs. Proactively advise on systematic and strategic contents for the development of culture, sports, tourism, and information and communication to promote the potential strengths of the province and each locality in the province.

In terms of culture, Lam Dong is a place where the diverse cultures of 47 ethnic groups from many regions converge. Preserving and promoting the cultural identity of each ethnic group creates a unique cultural beauty of Lam Dong; overcoming backward customs; creating new cultural values ​​of Lam Dong people.

Organizing the Gong Festival at an international level, exploiting the fields of music, cinema, etc. both arouses and preserves, exploits potential and advantages, and promotes indigenous cultural values, thereby creating economic value, attracting tourists, and turning culture into an industry that creates economic value.

Regarding sports, it is necessary to develop grassroots sports and mass sports more and more strongly; thereby, discovering, selecting, and nurturing good seeds to create high-performance sports. Pay attention to developing sports that have great influence and attract tourists such as men's football, women's football, etc.

Regularly organize sports competitions from the grassroots level to encourage the training movement; host regional, national, and international tournaments associated with tourism. Implement socialization, connect with organizations, businesses, ministries, branches, and localities to organize major tournaments.

In the field of tourism, state management needs to be thorough and strict; care, support, and create conditions for tourism units to operate according to the provisions of law. Research, advise, and develop the province's strategy on tourism development with specific roadmaps; identify types of tourism to ensure sustainable development.

Linking tourism with other fields and industries, maximizing the potential, advantages of nature, socio-culture, scenic spots and traditional cultural values ​​of the province.

Regarding press and publishing management, orientate appropriate communication, actively present good models, new and creative ways of doing things; criticize shortcomings to overcome and correct, in the spirit of using beauty to eliminate ugliness, using positivity to push back negativity.

Pay attention to administrative reform, digital transformation, improve the sense of responsibility, capacity and qualifications of the staff, civil servants and public employees of the industry to well fulfill assigned functions and tasks.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/xa-hoi/202503/lanh-dao-ubnd-tinh-lam-dong-lam-viec-voi-so-van-hoa-the-thao-va-du-lich-a674cb4/