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Lao Cai to be Vietnam’s biggest natural tourism hub
Nguyen Thoan 09:30, 2016/01/06
The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has set the target to become Vietnam’s biggest mountainous cultural and natural tourism hub in its tourism master plan for 2015-2020 with a vision to 2030.
Accordingly, the province strives to receive 4.5 million tourists a year, earning a total turnover of 18 trillion VND (818 million USD) from tourism by 2020. The figures are to increase to 13 million tourists with total turnover of 58,5 trillion VND (2.7 billion USD) by 2030.
Along with making full use of its advantages in on natural tourism resource and diverse cultural identities, the province will promote other tourism products including eco-tourism, eco-cultural tourism, and spiritual tourism.
The province has introduced several key solutions in order to obtain its target, including those on human resource, investment capital, promotion, technological-scientific application, planning management, tourism development cooperation, and tourism environmental resource.
Besides, the province will work to attract visitors from key markets both in and outside the country’s markets such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Western European countries.
Lao Cai will host the National Tourism Year in 2017, which is seen as an opportunity for the province and other northwestern localities to introduce their beautiful landscapes and unique cultural identities of ethnic groups in the region.
Lao Cai tourism has development with various types of investment and the mobilization of all economic sectors. The ecotourism and cultural tourism are gradually invested and expanded; the promotion tourism is deployed strongly in various forms; the infrastructure for tourism is invested and upgraded with 410 accommodations, including 44 hotels from one star to four star. According to the Lao Cai tourist planning, tours and tourist destinations are partitioned and extended to other areas such as Bac Ha, Muong Khuong, Si Ma Cai… creating more jobs for 75000 labors.
The model of community tourism develops with nearly 100 home stays, many folklore teams are formed contributing to the poverty reduction and improve the living standard for people. Lao Cai tourism has development with various types of investment and the mobilization of all economic sectors. The ecotourism and cultural tourism are gradually invested and expanded; the promotion tourism is deployed strongly in various forms; the infrastructure for tourism is invested and upgraded with 410 accommodations, including 44 hotels from one star to four star.
According to the Lao Cai tourist planning, tours and tourist destinations are partitioned and extended to other areas such as Bac Ha, Muong Khuong, Si Ma Cai… creating more jobs for 75000 labors. The model of community tourism develops with nearly 100 home stays, many folklore teams are formed contributing to the poverty reduction and improve the living standard for people.
The tourist space is expanded, the potentialities, advantages and other resources for tourism development are exploited in the fast, strong and sustainable direction creating more jobs and raising the living standards and morale of the people here. The province also focuses on developing the tourist destinations, building the tourist infrastructure towards the modern, expanding the ecotourism, spiritual tourism… Continuing to improve the quality of tourist services, building the brand for the mountainous markets, fairs, of which the province focuses especially on the conservation of space, landscape and architecture of mountainous markets. 
In addition, the province also focuses on the development of domestic market, the market in the Southwest of China and ASEAN countries, enhances the bilateral and multilateral commercial cooperation, supports the enterprises to build the brand, look for and expand the market; plans the tourist products, improves the diversification tourist products and enhances the training of human resources in the fields of trade, service, tourism to meet the requirements of regional and international integration.
Besides the focus on developing the domestic market; consolidation and market development Southwestern - China and the ASEAN countries, enhance bilateral trade cooperation, multilateral. Support the branding business, looking to expand the market; system planning products and services and develop tourism products thematic tourism (cultural monuments, terraces, landscape...).
Promote links, diversify tourism products; enhance the training of human resources in the field of trade, services, tourism and meet the requirements of regional and international integration.
 
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