In the first half of this year, the northern central province of
Thanh Hoa earned more than 3.36 trillion VND (157 million USD), up 22.7
percent from the same period last year.
The
total number of tourists to the province in the reviewed period exceeded
3.3 million, including 57,700 foreigners, an increase of 16.2 percent
from the same period last year.
The Sam Son
beach resort town alone earned 1.23 trillion VND (57.5 million USD), up
19.6 percent from the same period last year, with 2.5 million tourists.
The town plays a central role in promoting the province’s tourism potential in the National Tourism Year 2015.
The province aims to conduct a number of activities to promote local tourism development.
In the second half of the National Tourism Year 2015, Thanh Hoa will
organise a wide range of festivals including an international stone
sculpture festival, the 2015 Lam Kinh festival and a UNESCO-recognised
intangible heritage festival.
Under the plan for
tourism development from 2010- 2020, some 25 projects are being
implemented to improve infrastructure facilities.
Currently, the province has 672 hotels and motels offering 15,000
rooms. The province is encouraging enterprises to upgrade facilities and
develop high-end resorts to lure more foreign and domestic tourists.
Over the past five years, Thanh Hoa has invested
more than 400 billion VND (18.7 million USD) in upgrading more than 200
relics, including the Ho Dynasty Citadel in Vinh Loc district, the Lam
Kinh national special relic site in Tho Xuan district and the Ham Rong
tourism zone in Thanh Hoa city.-VNA