Confirming that the destination is “chosen to send gold”

Attraction to international events

Right after the Lunar New Year holiday, Ha Long (Quang Ninh) was honored to welcome 11 racing teams with nearly 400 sailors from the 2023-2024 Clipper Race around the world sailing season to the International Passenger Port. Ha Long. With careful preparation, ensuring the best conditions for ports, logistics, security and a warm welcome, the 2-week stopover in Ha Long City has brought international guests a wonderful experience. Impressive, profound experience.

Joining the race team and becoming one of the stops of the Clipper Race in the 2023-2024 season is an opportunity to bring the image and tourism brand of Quang Ninh on par with world-famous tourist destinations – where visiting race; At the same time, promote the image of the land, people, and cultural beauty of Quang Ninh to international friends. This is also an opportunity for Quang Ninh to promote and attract investment, especially service and tourism projects.

Mr. Iain Grant Frew, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Vietnam, shared: The organization of Clipper Race has demonstrated Quang Ninh’s capacity in terms of experience, facilities, and expertise in organizing international events. During the 2-week stopover in Ha Long, your locality will not only invite multinational crew members to stay and visit, experience attractive tourism services in Ha Long Bay, in Ky Thuong commune… but also take advantage of This is an opportunity to organize conferences to promote, advertise and attract tourism investment. This has shown Quang Ninh’s acumen and strategic vision to attract international investment, promote tourism development, and affirm that Quang Ninh is an attractive destination for both tourists and businesses. international investors.

Following this special event, just one week later, the Comac Airshow aviation exhibition continued to be held at Van Don Airport, Quang Ninh. The program opens a series of exhibition events of China’s leading aircraft company in 5 Southeast Asian countries. This is also an important occasion that has contributed to opening up opportunities to promote tourism and attract investment to the province.

From 2022 up to now, Quang Ninh has hosted and been selected to organize many cultural, sports, and tourism events of regional and international stature with thousands of attendees. Typical examples include: Yen Tu Cherry Blossom – Yellow Apricot Festival, Ha Long Carnaval Festival, Vietnam – China Friendship Singing Exchange Competition on the Border River, Vietnam – China Friendship Singing Competition, Festival International Circus – Ha Long 2019, International Music Festival – Ha Long 2020; The 17th East Asia Interregional Tourism Forum (EATOF) General Assembly in 2022 is associated with the 20th Anniversary of EATOF’s founding; SEA Games 31; “Vietnam – China Friendship Singing” Competition in 2022; Hokkaido Festival in Ha Long (Hokkaido Festival in Ha Long) in 2023… And here is the Summer Yoga Festival event competing for the 2nd National Healthy Living Yoga Star Cup in 2024, expected to attract participation from the community. Performance by nearly 1,500 people…

The successful organization of important cultural, sports and tourism events has contributed to spreading the image of Quang Ninh as dynamic, vibrant and colorful to international friends. From there, it contributes to attracting foreign investors to Quang Ninh. Not only that, it also deepens the friendship, creating new momentum to deepen Quang Ninh’s relations with many partners, especially important partners, traditional friends and potential partners. .

In the first 3 months of the year, the total number of visitors to Quang Ninh was estimated at over 5.3 million, an increase of 11% over the same period, reaching 105% of the growth scenario. Of which, international visitors are estimated to reach over 1.2 million, an increase of 410% over the same period. Total tourism revenue is estimated at over 10,200 billion VND, up 10% over the same period. These numbers show the impressive growth of Quang Ninh tourism in the first quarter of the year, especially the strong recovery of international visitors.

Heading to a tourist center connecting with the region and the world

Resolution No. 30-NQ/TW (November 23, 2022) of the Politburo on socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security in the Red River Delta to 2030, vision to 2045 , has set the goal of developing Quang Ninh province to become a tourism center connecting the region and the world, a cultural industry center with high-class resorts with synchronous and modern facilities. modern, with diverse, unique, high-quality tourism products, strong brands and global appeal, and high competitiveness; Collaborating with leading international airlines, cruise lines, and tourism groups. This is a huge goal, demonstrating the important role of Quang Ninh province in promoting international and regional links, contributing to socio-economic development in general and tourism in particular.

With the set directional goals and concretization of Resolution No. 30-NQ/TW of the Politburo, the province has issued many specific resolutions, directives and projects to promote and restore the tourism industry, giving wings to the province’s tourism to reach an international level. Among them, we must mention Decision No. 2256/QD-UBND approving the Project for recovery and sustainable development of Quang Ninh tourism industry to 2025, with a vision to 2030, issued on August 8, 2023. Quang Ninh strives to truly develop tourism into a key and sustainable economic sector, affirming its role as a tourism center connecting the region and the world, a leading tourism focus of the country, contribute 15% of GRDP by 2030. Along with that, develop tourism towards green and sustainable growth, associated with preserving and promoting traditional cultural values; contributing to maintaining security and national border sovereignty; ensure social order and safety.

Quang Ninh always pays attention to prioritizing investment in building synchronous and modern transportation infrastructure, ready to ensure the best conditions to meet the strict standards required for each large-scale program and event. request. That is Ha Long International Cruise Port located in Bai Chay, Ha Long – the first specialized international tourist cruise port project in the country. The project invested by Sun Group also meets international standards, accommodating ships with the largest tonnage of up to 225,000 GRT, with a total number of up to 8,460 people (including passengers and crew), serving 2 Ships dock at the same time.

Civilized services, spacious and modern infrastructure are the factors that attract domestic and foreign tourists when starting their journey to visit Ha Long Bay. Not only that, Van Don International Airport is also the only private airport model in Vietnam. This is an airport equipped with the most advanced technology and infrastructure in the aviation industry today. After more than 5 years of operation, international routes from Van Don International Airport have connected to China, Korea, Japan…

Not only ensuring synchronous and modern transport infrastructure, to create a highlight to attract tourists, Quang Ninh is always interested in investing, creating, and organizing many programs and activities to stimulate tourism, creating Create new tourism products suitable for each time and each locality. In 2024, Quang Ninh plans to organize 186 programs, events, cultural, sports and tourism activities at international, national and provincial levels, and build 62 new tourism products to diversify tourism products, increase experiences, prolong stay, increase guests’ spending ability and gradually turn this locality into a “4-season wonder” destination.

Right in the second quarter of 2024, a series of cultural, sports and tourism events and activities for Ha Long Summer Tourism Week 2024 will be implemented, notably: Ha Long Summer Carnaval Program 2024, Traditional Festival Bach Dang, Provincial Ethnic Cultural Festival; Culinary Festival 2024. Quang Ninh will host the Famtrip group Ha Long – Quang Yen – Dong Trieu – Uong Bi in April 2024; building 3D digital maps Tourism… In addition, the province has been directing and accelerating the completion of the Tourism Development Project to become a tourism center connecting with the region and the world by 2030, vision by 2045; Strengthen connectivity and regional linkages in trade promotion activities, exhibitions, promotions and international exchanges. These activities will be diverse tourism products and this is expected to continue to increase the attraction of Quang Ninh tourism, especially with the international tourist market.

To gradually develop Quang Ninh into a tourism center connecting the region and the world, the province is constantly connecting and cooperating with foreign economic partners and localities through investment promotion activities. , sending members to join central working delegations working abroad and through embassies and international organizations in Vietnam. To date, Quang Ninh has established foreign relations with 15 foreign localities, has economic and trade relations with over 70 countries and territories and with many regional and international organizations and forums. Highlights include the East Asia Tourism Federation (EATOF), the Vietnam – China two corridors – one belt cooperation conference, the World Beautiful Bays Club, the Udonthani (Thailand) – Luangprabang heritage triangle (Laos) – Quang Ninh (Vietnam). At the same time, 36 provincial-level international cooperation agreements were signed with localities and foreign partners; The content of the signing is consistent with the province’s cooperation needs in the fields of economics, politics, and culture. Departments, branches and localities of the province also signed many cooperation agreements with international agencies, units and localities.

Recently, right after the bilateral talks between the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Council of Quang Ninh province (Vietnam) and the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China), the Provincial Department of Tourism Quang Ninh and the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region also signed a cooperation agreement, unifying efforts to build the two sides’ tourism cooperation into a model model of tourism. Vietnam – China border.

Ms. Nguyen Huyen Anh, Deputy Director in charge of the Department of Tourism, said: Quang Ninh province along with Guangxi province clearly identified Quang Ninh as the key Vietnamese tourism market of Guangxi and Guangxi as the tourism market. China is key to Quang Ninh. With the orientation of the two Provincial and Regional Secretaries, the tourism industry of the two localities will continue to promote cooperation in exploiting and developing each side’s tourism resources, and cooperate in research and development of new tourism products. , unique and attractive to maximally meet the diverse needs of tourists and be suitable and meet the tastes of Vietnamese and Chinese tourists.

With a suitable development perspective and orientation, effectively taking advantage of local potentials and strengths, Quang Ninh will certainly continue to develop strongly, contributing to diversifying tourism activities, bringing Quang Ninh become an attractive 4-season destination, a tourist center worthy of international standards. From here, realize the goal of welcoming about 18-20 million visitors, including at least 4.5-5 million international visitors by 2025, becoming a tourism center connecting with the region and the world. Future.