Specialists, products of Con Dao island to be displayed at Vietnam tourism event 2020

Sunday - 08/11/2020 11:36

On the afternoon of October 9, 2020 at Majestic Hotel, the event attracted the participation of more than 100 guests, including leaders of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, and leaders of tourism market cases, the Department of Culture and Sports and tourism of provinces, cities, representatives of island districts, together with accommodation, travel business, restaurants, entertainment areas, transport units ... in the tourism industry.

Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh, Director General of the Tourism Department spoke at the forum, Photo Hai Nhan
Impression Tourism Forum Vietnam launched the program of 12 island districts tourismYouth newspaper cooperating with Vinpearl - VinWonders, Vietjet Air, Saigontourist Group to organize a seminar to introduce new and impressive tourism products, contributing to revitalizing the tourism industry. Attracting the participation of more than 100 guests, including leaders of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, and leaders of tourism market departments, the Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism of provinces, cities, representatives of island districts, with accommodation, travel, restaurants, entertainment, transport ... companies in the tourism industry. Accordingly, tourism and travel businesses will work with 12 island districts to plan routes to survey and develop new products for sea-island tourism more attractively, more interestingly and more safely.

Miss Phan Thi Mo visited specialties, enjoyed grape wine from Con Dao forest. Photo Hai Nhan
Coming from all parts of the country, each island district did not forget to bring local products and introduced them to consumers. Con Dao district introduced Bang (Terminalia catappa) seeds, forest grape wine, Con Dao ginseng wine, and products from Cordyceps. Van Don district was with such as oyster shrimp paste, oyster prawn crackers, Sen Ban tea ... In particular, the booth from the mountainous area Ha Giang was paid much attention by visitors and shopped.
A representative of the organizing committee, Mr. Le The Chu - editor-in-chief of the newspaper Youth - said last time, much Famous tourist destinations such as Nha Trang, Da Nang, Hoi An, Hue, Quang Binh, Ha Long, Phu Quoc, Con Dao, Da Lat, Vung Tau ... have attracted a lot of domestic tourists to visit quite impressively, which shows that the program Vietnamese people travel to Vietnam launched by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has achieved success.

Con Dao displays their products and specialties, photos of Hai Nhan

On this occasion, the organizers introduced a special book 12 island districts of Vietnam - Pearl chain in the East Sea written in Vietnamese - English bilingual, in which outstanding landscapes of 12 island districts in Vietnam such as Bach Long Vi and Cat Hai in Hai Phong; Co To and Van Don in Quang Ninh; Con Co in Quang Tri, Ly Son in Quang Ngai, Phu Quy in Binh Thuan, Hoang Sa in Da Nang, Truong Sa in Khanh Hoa province; Con Dao in Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Kien Hai and Phu Quoc in Kien Giang province. "The island districts always give us a burning inspiration in the process of searching, introducing and exploiting tourism products that are both unique and popular and attract the mass market, while creating product lines targeting niche markets. In fact, Vietnam's sea and island tourism is taking the throne and will always be a product with different and unique strengths, create many competitive values for tourism in Vietnam "- Mr. Pham Huy Binh, Chairman of the Board Saigontourist Group, shared.
Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh, Director General of the National Administration of Tourism, also said the stimulus program phase 1 theme "Travelling of Vietnamese people to Vietnam" was launched by the Ministry of Culture - Sports and Tourism and quickly received the response from localities, associations, tourism businesses, the support of the media, press. Travel forum Impressive Vietnamese informed by Youth was held right from the beginning of the domestic tourism stimulus program, which was launched in Quang Nam, Nha Trang, Can Tho and Ho Chi Minh City, with a writing contest My hometown and activities in newspapers, online newspapers and media. Those have joined hands to promote the recovery of the tourism industry after the COVID-19 epidemic. "In June 2020, many localities have recorded a sharp increase in domestic arrivals on average from 1.5 to 3 times compared to May 2020, such as Sa Pa (Lao Cai) increasing 2.65 times; Hanoi increased 3.16 times; Thua Thien Hue increased 2.2 times; Phu Quoc increased 1.68 times ... ", Mr. Khanh said. Since the end of July, the COVID-19 epidemic broke out again in Da Nang and some localities, making the tourism industry once again hit hard. The tourism business that has not recovered yet continues to face many difficulties. "In order to continue to gradually restore and promote tourism activities, the re-launch of domestic tourism demand stimulation is a practical solution, ensuring the tourism service supply chain for the whole industry, the prosperity of tourism activities in the last months of 2020 ", said Mr. Khanh.