Provincial Department of Tourism works with Con Dao District

Friday - 31/05/2019 10:27

On March 8, the mission of the Department of Tourism by Mr. Trinh Hang - Director of the Department of Tourism had a meeting with Con Dao District People's Committee (CON DAO) on tourism development in 2019. Mr. Nguyen Anh Nhut, Vice Chairman of Con Dao District People's Committee and a number of related agencies and units received and worked with the delegation.

According to the report of Con Dao District People's Committee, since the beginning of the year, the district has received 36,866 turns of tourists; in which, there were 6,306 international visitors; tourism revenue is more than 193 billion. Especially, from February 15, when the Con Dao Express 36, Vung Tau - Con Dao high-speed train went into operation, the number of tourists coming to Con Dao suddenly increased. The whole district has 68 facilities, with 1,183 rooms, accommodating more than 3,000 people / night, but always in scarcity of rooms, especially on weekends. The increase in tourists positively impacts the revenue for tourism and employment for local people. However, besides, it also causes many consequences on ecosystems, garbage, domestic waste, which are more potential risks of environmental pollution, complicated security and order; The situation of tourists gathering, drinking, and littering in public places began to appear but because there are no regulations to sanction this, the locality is very difficult to handle, but only propaganda and remind visitors.
Also at the meeting, Con Dao district raised difficulties and obstacles in the construction of tourism products; payrolls for tourism management; progress of tourism projects; planning of event venue; training human resources for tourism; statistics, inspection and supervision of tourism; tourism promotion and promotion to attract international visitors to the Con Dao, ...
After listening to Con Dao district report, Mr. Trinh Hang - Director of the Department of Tourism stated to share difficulties that the locals are having in the process of developing tourism. At the same time, the Department asked the departments of the Department to record and synthesize in time to guide and accompany the local authorities to solve difficulties related to effective tourism activities in the area. For the proposal of training human resources for tourism development, Con Dao district needs to study, survey and evaluate the current human resources of the locality and plan for future development investment in tourism activities. . Regarding tourism products, the locality needs to diversify, improve and effectively exploit the strengths of the locality, such as: convalescence, spirituality, ecology, ... In which, Con Dao needs to be concerned to protect the environment and soon implement the plan to implement the project 'Ensuring the environment in BRVT tourism activities in the period of 2018-2020 in the district of Can Tho' 'and the plan to implement the Code of Conduct Intelligent of Travel.
Also at the meeting, the leaders of the Department of Tourism and the People's Committee of Con Dao district agreed to propose the Provincial People's Committee to collect tourist fees to Con Dao in order to have funds for environmental treatment, landscape improvement and renovation of the relic system and public works for tourism.
Also at the meeting, members of the working group of the Department of Tourism and CON DAOD spent time discussing and discussing the situation, training solutions and attracting human resources for tourism development. At the same time, set out to solve some difficulties and difficulties to make Con Dao tourism develops towards high quality and sustainability.