Specifically, Kien Giang is seen as a heaven of tourism with favorable weather and terrain. During Tet holiday ( the Lunar New Year), influx of travelers flocked to its best tourist attractions include Rach Gia reclamation urban area, Ha Tien landscape and paradise island Phu Quoc.
From the twenty-eighth day of the Year of Dog to the fifth day of the Year of Pig, the island received more than 65,250 tourists including 21,700 international holiday-makers, increasing 210 percent year on year.
In addition to spending time bathing and fishing squids, holiday-makers visited Vinpearl Land, Safari zoo, suspension cable in Tho islet, Suoi Tran tourist park, Phu Quoc prison, according to Phu Quoc Island District People’s Committee.
To facilitate travel to the island, Phu Quoc airport worked relentlessly to welcome 300 flights with 46,114 passengers, a year-on-year rise of 186 percent. Express ferry company serviced through the holiday.
Around 200,000 visitors filled tourist sites including longan gardens, man-made sea, Hung Vuong Square and the house of the richest man in the old time in Bac Lieu Province in the first days of the lunar new year. Tourism revenue is these days was more than VND40 billion ($1,723,968).
In Dong Thap province at the heart of the Mekong Delta, activities were organized by local administrators and enterprises to attract over 200,000 visitors bringing around VND12 billion in the special holiday. Meanwhile in An Giang province to the west, hundreds of thousands of visitors converged Ba Chua Xu Temple in Sam Mountain and Cam Mountain National Park.
It can say that tourism in Mekong delta changed better thanks to related agencies’ efforts and huge investment of enterprises and locals.
Local administrations have paid heed to promotion programs and improved its guide personnel as well as cooperated with tourism sector in Ho Chi Minh City so as to connect tours from the city to the Mekong delta.
However, tourism sector in the Mekong delta has to remedy its weaknesses including poor infrastructure, simple tourist products, low service quality and untrained guides.
Dong Thap planned to welcome 3.5 million visitors earning around VND1 trillion by 2020, said Deputy Head of the Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Ngo Quang Tuyen. Similarly, Deputy Chairman of the People’s Committee in An Giang Province Nguyen Thanh Binh said the province is striving to turn tourism industry into one of key economic sectors and planning to receive 10.1 million visitors by 2020.
According to Mekong delta Tourism Association, provinces should pour much investment into tourism, design more products and diversify alliance as well as connect with big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to design tours. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism noted that Mekong delta provinces should invest more in river tours, ecotourism, heritage tourism, sea tourism, agrotourism and Community based tourism.
