Ready for beach tourism season

Shops at Gio Hai beach are built spaciously, ready to welcome tourists during the beach tourism season - Photo: LA

Careful preparation

At Gio Hai beach, Gio Hai commune, these days, restaurant owners are busy renovating their facilities to welcome the upcoming beach tourism season. Mr. Tran Xuan Anh, owner of Gia Nghia restaurant, said that to welcome this year's beach tourism season, he invested about 50 million VND to replace all tables, chairs, and equipment in the restaurant such as wall fans, gas stoves, freezers; repair the electrical system, fresh water bathrooms, and renovate the restaurant's landscape after a period of use. Closely contract with suppliers of quality seafood to meet the increasing demand of tourists.

“Currently, due to unfavorable weather, the number of visitors is still low. However, according to the forecast, the weather will be hot in the coming time, especially during the 5-day holiday from April 30 to May 1, so the number of visitors coming to swim and eat will definitely increase,” said Mr. Anh.

At Cua Viet beach, Cua Viet town, with the advantage of natural conditions and traffic infrastructure, this place always attracts a lot of tourists to rest and eat. Mr. Nguyen Duc Vinh, owner of Ai Van restaurant, said that although it only operates from April to September every year, after deducting expenses, he earns an average of 120 - 150 million VND each season.

Entering this year's beach tourism season, he invested about 20 million VND to repair the restaurant, renew the kitchen system, shower area, and prepare fresh seafood to serve tourists. "During the April 30 - May 1 holiday last year, my restaurant achieved a record revenue of more than 220 million VND, after deducting expenses, the profit was more than 40 million VND. This year, although it is just the beginning of the tourist season, some tourists have come to Cua Viet beach to enjoy seafood. This year, with careful preparation, we expect to have a prosperous beach tourism season," said Mr. Vinh.

Chairman of the People's Committee of Cua Viet Town, Tran Dinh Cam, informed that recently, sea tourism services have continued to be invested in to better serve tourists. Currently, the locality has more than 40 restaurants specializing in serving tourists swimming and eating at Cua Viet 1 beach.

In addition, there are 30 premises at Cua Viet 2 beach that are preparing to be put into operation. On average, each beach tourism season, the shops earn revenue of 150 - 200 million VND. According to Mr. Cam, to attract tourists during the 2025 beach tourism season, the locality has organized to thoroughly educate beach service businesses to strictly follow the rules and regulations of the State.

Especially the issues of environmental sanitation, food safety and hygiene, public price listing, prohibiting price gouging. Organizing on-site rescue and relief forces. Promoting activities to promote sea tourism in 2025, associated with the celebration of major holidays of the homeland and country to attract tourists.

At the same time, it is necessary to propagate and mobilize organizations and individuals to raise awareness and responsibility in protecting the ecological environment, doing a good job of collecting waste, and protecting the tourism service infrastructure in the area. "At this point, it can be affirmed that Cua Viet beach is ready to welcome tourists," said Mr. Cam.

Beaches will be handed over to local management.

Formed and developed more than 20 years ago, the tourist beaches in Gio Linh district were initially community beaches, mainly run by households who spontaneously set up shops to serve tourists swimming in the sea in order to increase income and improve the lives of people in Trung Giang, Gio Hai communes and Cua Viet town.

Recently, within the framework of the tourism infrastructure development project to support comprehensive growth in the Greater Mekong Subregion, phase 2, funded by ADB, the construction items of 3 community beaches including Trung Giang, Gio Hai and Cua Viet 2 have been invested in building infrastructure, lighting systems, observation... to ensure sufficient conditions for operation and exploitation of sea tourism potential in the coming time.

Chairman of Gio Linh District People's Committee Vo Dac Hoa said that the beach tourism season is approaching. To facilitate the business activities of people at the beaches, ensure sustainability, long-term and in line with the orientation of the organization and apparatus of the political system, Gio Linh District has sent a document requesting the Provincial People's Committee to unify the policy of assigning the task of managing the beaches in the district from the Project Management Board, Land Fund Development and Industrial Cluster of Gio Linh District to Gio Hai, Trung Giang communes and Cua Viet town.

Regarding the management and exploitation plan of the newly invested and built community beaches, according to Mr. Hoa, because some items of the project have not been completed, Gio Linh district has only received the current status of the infrastructure handover of the project items and made a record of the items that need to be fixed and repaired before being put into use. At the same time, it is proposed to prioritize and create conditions for local people to rent business premises.

Specifically, for 43 cases of businesses operating at Cua Viet 1 beach, the assets are mainly invested by households, Gio Linh district has sent a document requesting the Provincial People's Committee to approve the policy of designated auction for the current businesses.

For 30 sites at Cua Viet 2 beach, the initial goal of the project is to create livelihoods for people affected by the resettlement project to expand Cua Viet port. Therefore, it is proposed to conduct internal auctions for households affected by site clearance in Ward 7, Cua Viet town to solve livelihoods for people.

For 29 restaurants at Gio Hai beach, it is proposed to conduct a designated auction for 18 households currently operating at the beach; for the remaining 11 restaurants, it is proposed to conduct an internal auction for households in Village 6, Gio Hai commune affected by land clearance by the T&T tourism service project. Similarly, for 13 restaurants at Trung Giang beach, it is proposed to conduct an internal auction for a total of 25 households that previously operated at the beach to create long-term livelihoods and stabilize the lives of the people.

Le An

Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/san-sang-don-dau-mua-du-lich-bien-192855.htm