HCM City (VNA) – The north-central province of Ha
Tinh on October 24 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with HCM City and
Can Tho city and Tien Giang province in the Mekong Delta region to promote
tourism cooperation.
Though the province has beautiful beaches, mountains and
landscapes as well as historic and religious heritage sites, tourism potential
has remained untapped, according to Bui Xuan Thap, Director of Ha Tinh province’s
Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The number of tourists visiting the province, especially
from the south, remains modest.
The province is offering incentive policies to attract
investors in the commercial, services and tourism sectors to develop high-end
hotels, commercial centres, retail markets and eco-tourism zones.
In recent years, the province has attracted major tourism
projects from the Muong Thanh Group, Vingroup and Hong Lam Joint Stock Company.
In the first nine months of the year, 10 projects in the
tourism sector with total capital of 5 trillion VND (220.26 million USD) were
granted investment certificates.
The province’s many sights can be reached by railway,
motorway or sea. Interesting destinations include cultural relics, beautiful
landscapes and well-known sites such as Ke Go lake, Vu Quang National Park,
Nguyen Du memorial site, Tran Phu relic site, Ha Huy Tap relic site, Dong Loc
relic site, Deo Ngang- Hoanh Son gate, and Huong Tich Pagoda.
With 137 km of coastline, the province’s white sandy
beaches, including Thach Hai, Xuan Thanh, Loc Ha and Deo Con beaches, are
popular for sea bathing.
The province’s eco-tourism destinations include the Sơn Kim
hot-mineral spring tourism site and Suoi Tien- Thien Tuong eco-tourism site.
The area has retained a rich treasure of cultural heritage
sites, though many of the original sites were destroyed by wars and natural
disasters.
Unique forms of folk arts and traditional craft villages
that have existed for 500-600 years also exist in the province.
It is home to two special national relics, 77 national
relics and 425 provincial-level relics.
In the first nine months of the year, the province welcomed
1.2 million tourists, an increase of 54 percent compared to the same period
last year. The number of international visitors was 19,900, a year-on-year rise
of 43 percent.-VNA