During the 5-day holiday of April 30 and May 1, the beaches in Vinh Thai commune, Vinh Linh district attracted over 15,000 visitors to visit, swim and enjoy the attractive and fresh specialties caught by fishermen from this coastal sea. This is truly a positive signal for the locality to continue to expand and effectively develop the potential of marine tourism.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet, owner of Hoe Tuyet food service business at Thai Lai beach, Vinh Thai commune, prepares seafood to serve customers - Photo: HT
Coming to Vinh Thai beach, Vinh Linh district for the third time, Ms. Tran Thi Hue, a tourist from Thanh Hoa province, said that she and her family members came to Quang Tri province for 3 days. After visiting and learning about some relics and scenic spots in the province, her family chose Vinh Thai beach, Vinh Linh district as a place to swim and enjoy delicious food.
According to Ms. Hue, Vinh Thai beach not only attracts her because of its wildness, fine white sand, peaceful nature but also because this place has many fresh seafood dishes such as squid, lobster, crab... at reasonable prices.
“In addition to the good impressions of the people, landscapes, and cuisine at Vinh Thai beach, I hope that in the coming time, the local government and beach businesses will continue to innovate marine tourism products, and have additional tourism activities to support relaxation, sightseeing, and swimming... so that tourists can have more interesting experiences when coming to this coastal area,” Ms. Hue shared.
With a coastline stretching over 14 km with pristine features, fine white sand, clear blue water, Vinh Thai beach is an attractive destination chosen by many domestic and foreign tourists for tourism and relaxation. In particular, the locality also has strengths in exploiting aquatic and seafood products, contributing to the diversity of marine tourism cuisine with fishing output always reaching and exceeding the set targets over the years.
In 2023 alone, the total output of aquatic and seafood catch was 1,200 tons, reaching 133%; the estimated value was 26.5 billion VND. On the other hand, with the help and support of the district and province, in recent times, Vinh Thai commune has had many solutions to accelerate the development of infrastructure serving tourism; applying science and technology in exploiting, processing seafood and producing clean agriculture, creating products serving tourism.
In particular, some items of the project "Road connecting Vinh Linh district center to coastal communes, infrastructure of Cua Tung tourist area and Vinh Thai community beach" phase 1 have been completed and put into use, including the road along the beach and the road to the beach center. Encourage people to participate in the business of sea tourism services, while creating favorable conditions to call for investment resources in the area. Thereby, contributing to the transformation of economic structure, creating jobs and increasing income for local people.
Chairman of Vinh Thai Commune People's Committee Nguyen Huu Truong informed: "Located more than 10 km from Vinh Linh district center, Vinh Thai beach is one of the 6 most beautiful and pristine beach tourist destinations in Quang Tri province. In recent times, beach tourism services in the commune have continued to be invested and developed.
To attract tourists during the 2024 beach tourism season, the commune has organized a training course for beach service businesses to strictly follow state regulations and rules.
Especially the issues of environmental sanitation, food safety and hygiene, and public price listing. Price gouging is strictly prohibited. Focus on organizing on-site rescue forces.
At the same time, promote and mobilize organizations and individuals to raise awareness and responsibility in protecting the ecological environment, doing a good job of collecting waste, and protecting tourism service infrastructure in the area. From there, we are determined to turn sea tourism into a spearhead economic sector, creating momentum to promote other sectors and fields to develop together. By 2025, we strive to have revenue from sea tourism services reach 5 - 7 billion VND; creating jobs for about 100 workers as set out in the Resolution of the Vinh Thai Commune Party Congress for the 2020 - 2025 term.
Currently, there are 32 households in the commune participating in beach services concentrated in Thai Lai, Dong Luat, Tan Hoa, and Tan Thuan villages. Determining that developing and renewing tourism products is the "key" to retaining tourists, food service establishments at beaches in the commune have also actively renovated their shops, diversified their menus, and completed the conditions to welcome tourists to swim, relax, and enjoy seafood.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet, owner of Hoe Tuyet food service business at Thai Lai beach, said: “This year’s beach tourism season, our business has invested nearly 50 million VND to repair and upgrade the restaurant, buy more tables, chairs, electric fans, and prepare fresh seafood to serve tourists. The restaurant has also signed contracts with a number of boat owners to prepare fresh, delicious seafood with a strong Vinh Thai seafood origin, bringing customers the most satisfaction.”
With many encouraging signs at the beginning of the tourist season, in the coming time, the locality will continue to actively coordinate with all levels and sectors to mobilize resources to speed up the progress of construction projects, especially traffic projects connecting Vinh Thai with neighboring localities; focusing on protecting the natural environment, building landscapes associated with new rural construction.
At the same time, resources are devoted to building tourism products, linking sea tourism with sightseeing, discovery, and historical and cultural tourism to increase diversity and richness, gradually overcoming the limitation of one-season tourism; aiming to build a civilized and friendly Vinh Thai sea tourism brand.
In addition, the locality continues to promote and improve the quality of information and promotion work on sea tourism; propagate, mobilize and support businesses and people to invest and build new, unique and highly competitive tourism products, thereby improving the quality of tourism services in a sustainable direction with the motto "Unique products - Professional services - Convenient and simple procedures - Competitive prices - Clean and beautiful environment - Safe, civilized and friendly destinations".
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