Developing heritage economy, creating impressive highlights in Ha Long city

Ha Long focuses on promoting the development of diverse, unique and highly competitive tourism products and services such as "Cruise Night Street" at Ha Long International Passenger Port, overnight cruises on Ha Long Bay...

Impressive Drone light formation performance at the opening ceremony of Ha Long Carnival. (Photo: Duc Hieu/VNA)

In 2024, Quang Ninh will attract 19 million tourists, of which Ha Long city is the most prominent destination chosen by domestic and international tourists because it possesses a valuable asset, the World Heritage-Wonder of Nature, Ha Long Bay.

In 2024, Ha Long city has developed and implemented the projects "Ha Long - city of flowers" and "Ha Long - city of festivals." Since then, every year, the city has organized festival activities such as the Summer Welcome program on the occasion of April 30 - May 1, the Ha Long Carnival program in summer and winter, the festival of Duc Ong Tran Quoc Nghien Temple and organized seminars to promote tourism.

Ha Long's tourism products are developed in accordance with each separate area and each tourist market segment, maintaining and effectively promoting new tourism products such as Hai Thinh Lake check-in point, Bai Tho walking street, exhibition area introducing the value of the World Heritage - Natural Wonder of Ha Long Bay at Dau Go cave, Ha Long Bay check-in point associated with the heritage symbol at TiTop island, Lighthouse entertainment complex...

The city focuses on promoting the development of diverse, unique and highly competitive tourism products and services. Many high-class and quality tourism products have been created such as “Cruise Night Street” at Ha Long International Passenger Port; music services on restaurant ships and overnight ships on Ha Long Bay; and restaurant cruise tourism products combined with weddings on Ha Long Bay.

Indian tourists are delighted when they set foot in Ha Long Bay. (Photo: Thanh Van/VNA)

High-class accommodation products on the shore and in Ha Long Bay; Bai Chay culinary walking street; golf course; seaplane service to see Ha Long Bay, along with music performances... were successfully organized to create impressive highlights for tourists.

Community tourism products, exploration and experience are put into service for tourists on the basis of exploiting and promoting the nature of mountains and forests, and the cultural identity of the highlands such as Amvap Farm in Ky Thuong commune, the agricultural tourism area in Dong Dang village, Son Duong commune, Man's Farm in Thong Nhat commune, Ha Long flower garden in Viet Hung ward or the Dao Thanh Y cultural conservation area in Bang Ca commune.

Currently, Ha Long city continues to focus on researching and developing night tourism products such as food courts, night markets, old quarters, beach bars in the following areas: Ocean Park, BIM Group's marine area in Hung Thang ward and Tuan Chau International Port area.

In recent years, Ha Long has successfully organized many large-scale cultural and sporting events such as Ha Long Carnival, Tran Quoc Nghien Temple Festival, Winter Carnival, SEA Games 31 competitions, National Sports Congress... and annual tourism promotion seminars.

In the coming time, the city will promote the development of heritage economy, making cultural and natural heritage become resources and growth drivers, creating breakthroughs for economic development, enhancing local brand value; building Ha Long into a city of flowers and festivals, developing Ha Long tourism ecosystem to become an attractive destination, with all four seasons.

The city focuses on exploiting the transport infrastructure system to connect and expand the space for tourism development, especially in the Northern region, towards rapid and sustainable development, associated with effectively exploiting the natural landscape of rural areas combined with green tourism development.

The beautiful scenery of Ha Long Bay attracts many tourists to visit and explore. (Photo: Hoang Hieu/VNA)

At the same time, the city preserves and promotes the value of relics and cultural traditions of ethnic minorities to serve sustainable tourism development; gradually forming attractive, interconnected tours and routes to retain and increase the spending of tourists in the area.

Ha Long focuses on attracting strategic investors with the capacity to invest in large-scale, synchronous, modern projects according to the planning to develop high-class, high-quality tourism and services such as hotels, standard restaurants, sports centers, resorts, cuisine, community tourism, and renew night tourism products.

The locality has gradually researched new types of tourism that are suitable to tastes and development trends such as conference tourism, cultural-spiritual tourism, agricultural tourism, sports tourism, event tourism, film and photography tourism, etc.

The city develops community tourism, cultural experiences, agricultural and rural experience tourism, contributing to preserving and promoting the cultural values ​​of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas on the basis of effectively exploiting the cultural identities of the Dao Thanh Phan ethnic group in the communes of Tan Dan, Dong Lam, Dong Son, Ky Thuong, Hoa Binh.

In addition, it is necessary to effectively promote the Dao Thanh Y Cultural Conservation Area in Bang Ca commune, Dong Son-Ky Thuong Nature Reserve, Da Chong Mountain Area in Bang Ca commune, the Northeast Quang Ninh paragliding site in Son Duong commune and the flower and fruit tree production areas concentrated in Son Duong, Dan Chu and Quang La communes.

In addition, the city plans, selects, and plants landscape trees and trees with four-season flowers suitable for the soil of each area in the area; researches cherry blossom planting in Ky Thuong commune... to gradually form tourism products associated with flower seasons, develop film and photography tourism./.

(Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/phat-trien-kinh-te-di-san-tao-diem-nhan-an-tuong-tai-thanh-pho-ha-long-post999704.vnp