Close to 1.6 million tourists arrived
in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue in the first six months of
this year, including 572,000 international visitors.
The tourism sector raked in 1.4 trillion VND (67 million USD) in revenue, a year-on-year rise of 2 percent.
The 2015 Hue Traditional Craft Festival, hosted on the occasion of
national public holidays (April 30 and May 1), drew more than 100,000
visitors, up 22 percent from the previous year.
The
Hue Relics Preservation Centre has to date welcomed nearly 1.1 million
visitors, half of whom are from abroad, Director of the centre Phan
Thanh Hai said.
Besides launching the Golden Tourism
Week programme on April 22-28 and June 15-21, the centre has organised a
wide range of activities to serve visitors such as music performances,
royal parties and exhibitions.
The province plans to
improve tourism infrastructure, such as completing construction of the
Dien Bien Phu road to serve tourism in the southwest part of Hue
imperial city – a UNESCO-recognised world heritage – while upgrading
relic sites in the Hue Relics Preservation Centre, the Revolution and
History Museum and the Ho Chi Minh Museum.
The
locality will also improve the quality of charter flights from Bangkok
to Hue and vice versa and open at least six direct flights between the
two sides. Other plans will implement programmes to promote tourism
investments in Hong Kong (China) and at the Korea World Travel Fair
(KOTFA) and the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) tourism
expo.-VNA