Provincial People's Council supervises tourism development planning

In recent times, Long An has focused on developing eco-tourism based on the landscape of Dong Thap Muoi region; promoting investment in river tourism, associated with exploiting natural landscapes and historical and cultural relics, craft villages in the basins of Vam Co Dong and Vam Co Tay rivers.

In addition, Long An also focuses on developing sports tourism - golf tourism. The province also has a number of outstanding tourist destinations with great potential for development: My Quynh Zoo with a semi-wild zoo model, Chavi Garden with an experiential educational eco-tourism model, etc.

With a semi-wild zoo model, My Quynh Zoo is a prominent destination in Long An

Many investors are interested in exploiting tourism projects in the province, gradually attracting tourists. The provincial tourism industry is proactive in connecting and promoting the image of the province's tourism in many different forms. In the period of 2021 - 2023, the number of tourists in the province increased by an average of 69%/year. The average revenue growth was 76%/year.

Despite those results, Long An tourism still faces many difficulties such as the mechanism and policies for tourism development are not really open to attract large investors; infrastructure, especially traffic infrastructure, has not met the requirements for connecting with key tourist areas/destinations; investment capital for tourism is still limited; human resources have not met the development needs; etc.

At the working session, the delegates of the monitoring delegation gave many opinions to clarify the difficulties and obstacles that the tourism industry is facing as well as orienting a number of solutions to gradually remove the difficulties. The delegation also listened to explanations from the Provincial People's Committee as well as related sectors.

Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council - Mai Van Nhieu speaks at the meeting

Speaking at the meeting, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council - Mai Van Nhieu highly appreciated the results of the tourism industry in recent times: Improved service quality, increased number of accommodation units, etc. In addition, he also analyzed the issues that need to be overcome by the provincial tourism industry: The planning is not complete; the target customers are not clearly identified to build products; tourism promotion is still scattered, and unsystematic; etc. He proposed that in the coming time, the Provincial People's Committee should consider rebuilding the development project as well as the tourism promotion strategy in line with the socio-economic development orientation of the province; sectors and localities need to clearly identify tourism as a key economic sector to focus on development; etc.

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

Receiving the opinions of the monitoring delegation, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Pham Tan Hoa affirmed that in the coming time, the Provincial People's Committee will review and re-evaluate the potential and advantages of tourism development in accordance with the Master Plan of Long An province for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050; orient tourism development products to suit actual needs./.

By Staffs - Translated by Q. Thien

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