Ninh Binh: Focus on attracting investment resources to develop tourism infrastructure

Vedana Resort Cuc Phuong (Nho Quan) project contributes to completing the province's tourism infrastructure.

Diversify investment resources

In recent years, Ninh Binh tourism has developed strongly. Tourism infrastructure and technical facilities have been invested in, security and order, and environmental sanitation in tourist areas and spots have been ensured. This is reflected in the increasing number of visitors to Ninh Binh. The number of tourists to tourist attractions has increased rapidly, reaching an average of 5.8 million visitors per year, an increase of 28.2% per year.

In 2024, the whole province will welcome 8.7 million visitors, with estimated revenue of 8.9 trillion VND. The plan for 2025 is to strive to reach over 9.1 million visitors, 3.5 times higher than in 2020, exceeding the target set by the Congress. Revenue from tourism activities has grown strongly. In the period 2020-2025, total revenue from tourism activities is estimated at 29,598 billion VND, an average of 5,919.6 billion VND per year, an average growth of 44.6% per year. The plan for 2025 is for revenue from tourism activities to reach 10,000 billion VND, 6.3 times higher than in 2020, exceeding the target set by the Congress.

Comrade Bui Van Manh, Director of the Department of Tourism, said: For the tourism industry, infrastructure is a necessary condition to lay the foundation for exploiting a tourist destination. As a tourist, everyone wants to reach a tourist destination easily and conveniently, and at the same time stay and enjoy services according to their needs. With infrastructure such as building roads, a huge amount of capital is needed, therefore, the State needs to make initial investments to attract businesses and people to invest together to complete the tourist destination.

With the motto of taking public investment as the lead, attracting private investment to create breakthrough tourism products, in recent years, Ninh Binh province has always paid attention to and focused resources on improving and upgrading infrastructure and tourism technical facilities, thereby creating favorable conditions for tourists to visit, experience services, and build brands.

Up to now, the whole province has nearly 20 famous national and international tourist areas and destinations, many of which were invested in while the COVID-19 pandemic was still complicated, becoming new attractive tourist products and destinations, extending the length of stay of visitors in Ninh Binh, typically Khe Coc Island, Hoa Lu Ancient Town, Route 4 of Trang An Tourist Area, Am Tien Cave, etc.

In particular, many tourism projects and works with capital of thousands of billions of VND have been invested by the State budget such as: Trang An Eco-tourism Area Infrastructure Construction Project; Hoa Lu Ancient Capital Historical and Cultural Relic Site Restoration and Rehabilitation Project; Dinh Tien Hoang Emperor Square and Monument Construction Project...

On that basis, Ninh Binh has created an investment environment, encouraging and attracting investors with non-budgetary capital into the tourism sector. Currently, the whole province has granted investment certificates to nearly 100 projects, with a capital of more than 20 trillion VND. Typical projects have been completed and put into operation to effectively serve tourists, such as: Emeralda Tam Coc Resort, Hoa Lu Ancient Town, Minawa KenhGa Resort, Vedana Resort, Cuc Phuong Resort and Spa, Trang An Golf Course, etc.

To date, the province has more than 900 tourist accommodation establishments with over 12,000 rooms, including 21 establishments of 4-5 star quality and equivalent, an increase of 32% compared to 2019, initially meeting the accommodation and resort needs of tourists.

Thereby creating an orientation for the development of a synchronous and modern socio-economic infrastructure, closely linked to the exploitation of natural landscape elements, the preservation of traditional cultural and historical relics, and at the same time making an important contribution to the sustainable socio-economic development of the locality.

Developing tourism according to plan

Comrade Bui Van Manh, Director of the Department of Tourism, assessed: Entering the period of 2026-2030, the tourism industry will have to face the impacts of the complicated and unpredictable developments in the world and the region. Besides opportunities and advantages, there will be many difficulties and challenges. Therefore, it is necessary to have a strategy to effectively and sustainably exploit the heritage values, traditional culture, and indigenous knowledge of the ancient capital of Hoa Lu to create high-quality, classy, ​​and distinctive tourism products and services with cultural depth and high added value. Promote the tourism development strategy from breadth to depth, focusing on improving service quality and professionalism in tourism service activities.

In the immediate future, the Department is focusing on developing tourism in accordance with the "Master plan for tourism development in Ninh Binh province to 2025, with a vision to 2030" and other related specialized plans such as: Master plan for construction of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex; Zoning plan for the central area of ​​Ninh Hai-Ninh Thang (area 4-4); Zoning plan for construction of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex in areas 3-1; 3-2; 3-3 in the Master plan for Ninh Binh urban area to 2030, with a vision to 2050.

The goal for the period 2026-2030 is that Ninh Binh strives to become one of the leading tourist centers in Vietnam and the region. Tourism is gradually becoming a key economic sector, creating momentum for the development of related industries. Creating a comprehensive breakthrough in terms of scope, scale and quality of services.

By 2030, the total number of visitors to Ninh Binh is estimated to reach 12 million, of which international visitors are estimated to reach 2.5-3 million. Total tourism revenue is estimated to reach over 18,000 billion VND, creating jobs for over 43,000 workers.

To successfully complete the above objectives, the Department of Tourism will strengthen State management of tourism, ensure safety, culture, and tourism civilization; effectively manage and exploit landscapes and tourism resources to develop tourism. In particular, it will focus on researching and building support policies to mobilize maximum resources for tourism development, creating a healthy, equal, and favorable competitive environment for businesses and communities to develop tourism.

At the same time, mobilize investment resources to build infrastructure and diversify tourism products. Encourage strategic investors to invest in the formation of complex tourism service areas, large-scale tourism service projects, shopping centers, entertainment centers, walking streets, night markets in key tourist areas; investment projects to build 3-5 star hotels (especially resort hotels), standard restaurant systems, high-class restaurants serving tourists; develop and diversify tourism products: cultural, spiritual, sports, resort, ecological tourism, tourism combined with conferences, seminars, agricultural tourism, responsible tourism and night tourism products.

The investment in infrastructure and facilities will be the foundation for Ninh Binh tourism to continue to take off, to be a bright spot on the Vietnam tourism map (in the top 15 destinations, 10 provinces with the highest number of visitors in the country), evaluated and voted by many prestigious domestic and international travel websites as the most attractive, most favorite, most hospitable, most wonderful tourist destination in the world...

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/ninh-binh-tap-trung-thu-hut-cac-nguon-luc-dau-tu-phat-trien-ha-tang-du-lich-20250326090744601.htm