Closing Ceremony of 2nd Long An Culture - Sports - Tourism Week

Delegates attending the closing ceremony

On the afternoon of December 4, the People's Committee of Long An province held the closing ceremony of the 2nd Culture - Sports - Tourism Week in 2024 with the theme "Joining hands - Inviting you to Long An".

Art performances at the closing ceremony

Attending the closing ceremony were former Politburo member, former State President - Truong Tan Sang; Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Council - Nguyen Van Duoc; Permanent Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly delegation of the province - Nguyen Thanh Hai; Member of the Standing Committee of Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Council - Mai Van Nhieu; Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee: Nguyen Minh Lam, Pham Tan Hoa, Huynh Van Son; former leaders of the province through the periods.

Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Council - Nguyen Van Duoc (right cover) presents flowers; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Minh Lam presents certificates of merit to sponsors

The 2nd Long An Province Culture - Sports - Tourism Week in 2024 was lauched on the night of November 28. According to statistics from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, after a week of events with 10 main activities, the locality welcomed more than 500,000 domestic and international tourists and people in the province to visit and experience cultural, sports, tourism, culinary events and spaces for introduction, display, exhibition, etc.

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation - Nguyen Thanh Hai (right cover) presents flowers; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Pham Tan Hoa presents certificates of merit to sponsors

In particular, the main events includes the Trade, Food and Tourism Fair welcomed over 160,000 visitors; Hite Jinro Festival 2024 welcomed over 60,000 spectators; drone performance and art performance on the opening night welcomed over 20,000 people, etc.

Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council - Mai Van Nhieu (5th, from right) presents flowers; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Huynh Van Son presents certificates of merit to businesses

The success of the 2nd Long An Province Culture - Sports - Tourism Week in 2024 contributed to increasing the number of visitors to Long An to exceed the milestone of over 2 million for the first time. Of which, the number of international visitors was over 32,000, including 10,000 Chinese visitors, 10,000 Korea and Japan visitors; 10,000 Cambodian visitors, 2,000 oversea Vietnamese visitors from the US, Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The number of tourists this year doubled compared to the same period, increased 54% compared to the plan, bringing the province's tourism revenue to about 1,050 billion VND, increased 87% compared to the same period and 50% compared to the plan.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council - Nguyen Van Duoc; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Minh Lam present flowers and bonuses to a number of departments, branches and localities

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the 2nd Long An Culture - Sports - Tourism Week Organizing Committee - Pham Tan Hoa said that the event contributed greatly to promoting the image the land and people of Long An. At the same time, it also introduced the potentials, strengths, attracted investment - trade - tourism of the province, promoted the traditional values, culture and natural resources of the province to the people and tourists.

Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department - Hoang Dinh Can presents flowers; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Pham Tan Hoa presents certificates of merit to enterprises

Within the framework of the event, a series of activities were organized according to the set plan. They were all linked to create a grand and vibrant festival space throughout the province in the past few days, especially in Tan An City - where most of the activities took place.

This is also a special occasion for Long An to exchange economy and culture with Korean and international friends. Thereby strengthening friendship and create opportunities for cooperation and development in the future.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Pham Tan Hoa speaks at the closing ceremony

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Pham Tan Hoa expressed his thanks to the leaders, central departments, ministries and branches for their attention and support; the accompanying units and domestic and foreign tourists for contributing to the success of the event.

At the closing ceremony, the Organizing Committee also presented certificates of merit from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to sponsors and units accompanying the program. On this occasion, the provincial leaders also gave special awards to a number of sectors and localities that coordinated well in organizing the program./.

By Song Nhi - Translated by Q. Thien

Source: https://baolongan.vn/be-mac-tuan-van-hoa-the-thao-du-lich-tinh-long-an-lan-thu-2-a186665.html