The Central Highlands is endowed with rich and unique cultural and
natural conditions and scenery for tourism development, evaluated talks
on orientations to develop tourism products in the Central Highlands-Da
Lat National Tourism Year 2014.
The talks were jointly held by
the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the National Tourism
2014 Steering Committee in Da Lat city on May 27.
Accordingly,
to better prepare for the National Tourism Year, the region needs to
develop its available resources, complete tourism infrastructure, and
improve awareness of sustainable tourism development.
Attending
the talks, Hoang Thi Diep, Deputy Director of the Vietnam National
Administration of Tourism, said the National Tourism Year aims to
encourage localities to develop tourism to improve local economies and
living conditions for local people.
The Central Highlands will
develop tourism products based on traditional culture, mountain resorts
and border tourism, she added.
Participants also debated the importance of environmental protection in the region’s tourism development.
The National Tourism Year 2014, themed “High mountains and thick
forest of the Central Highlands”, along with Vietnam-ASEAN UNESCO
Heritage Festival 2013, is part of the socio-economic events to
introduce the regional nature and people to domestic and international
friends.
A festival marking the 120 th founding
anniversary of Da Lat city and the fifth Da Lat Flower Festival will
also be held to promote the tourism industry of Lam Dong province.
The Central Highlands-Da Lat National Tourism Year 2014 will feature
up to nine programmes and 17 tourism events such as a Brocade festival
and regional dress fashion show, International Gong Festival,
International Street Art Festival and various folk festivals and games.
The Central Highlands (or “Tay Nguyen”) is a region of
plateaus in South Central Vietnam, known as a land of mysterious
mountains and forests where gongs can be heard, and a world of customs
that fascinate generations of anthropologists.
The region is
famous for its immense coffee and rubber plantations and is home to the
most endangered species of Vietnam and Southeast Asia, such as the
Indochinese tiger, the huge gaur, the wild Asian water buffalo and the
Asian elephant.-VNA