Many attractive destinations

For recent years, many tours have been created to lure visitors thanks to the linkage between tourism agencies and firms, especially via communication and promotion activities.

Visitors to Vinh Nghiem pagoda, Yen Dung district.

Some typical destinations include national special relic site Vinh Nghiem pagoda (Yen Dung district), Bo Da pagoda (Viet Yen district), Xuong Giang Victory Relic Site (Bac Giang city), Suoi Mo tourism complex (Luc Nam district), Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecotourism complex (Son Dong) among others.

Several travel firms in Hanoi city and provinces of Bac Ninh, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh linked to members of provincial travel association to create tours and introduce to visitors.

Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Director of Tay Yen Tu Service Joint Stock Company said her company plans to cooperate with some agencies to organize regular cultural and tourism events here such as exhibition, expo and fair to introduce about the land, people, tourism potential and strength of Bac Giang which will accelerate the connectivity between the bodies, lure more visitors and share the benefit among them.

Recently, Hanoi Tourist Company has created tour “Following the Buddhist Emperor’s footprint” with journey to the landscape complex in Tay Yen Tu area (Son Dong district), Dong pagoda (Quang Ninh province) and Vinh Nghiem pagoda which welcomed the first delegation on October 23 after Bac Giang province allowed some activities in new normal state.

Besides, the experimental tour to fruit orchard and Cam Son lake, Am Vai pagoda in Luc Ngan district is selected by many agencies.

Expanding the linkage

Apart from cooperating with travel agencies, recently the local authorities and competent forces have regularly discussed to build and ink the cooperative agreement in tourism field.

In 2020, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism (DoCST) in Bac Giang and Hai Duong provinces made Coordination Plan to implement the Memorandum of understanding between the Standing Board of the Party Committee in two province about cooperation to develop culture and tourism in the period 2020 – 2025.

Accordingly, two sides create tourism products and joint destination basing on the strength of signature tourism products of Hai Duong and Bac Giang; organize surveys to link the tour between Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecotourism complex, Vinh Nghiem pagoda and Con Son – Kiep Bac relic site and Thanh Mai pagoda (Hai Duong province).

Bac Giang province also actively connected to develop the tourism among Ho Chi Minh city and the Northeastern provinces via several activities of cooperative agreement, promotion, talk show, conference, exhibition to introduce attractive tours, destination, specialties as well as unique cultural identities of localities.

Notably, since 2019, the DoCST has cooperated with Luc Ngan district People’s Committee to invite hundreds of travel agencies in and outside the province to survey and join meeting on linkage for tourism development.

Director of Tourism Information and Promotion Center in Bac Giang province (Center) Luu Xuan San said if Covid-19 pandemic is well controlled in localities in and outside the province, the Center will organize more tourism promotion activities, seek partners to cooperate in surveying and building tours, diversify methods of communication and promotion with strong application of information and technology in tourism activities.

Bac Giang province set target to welcome about 3 million tourist arrivals by 2025 with tourism revenue of three trillion VND (132.3 million USD) and 6,000 labours in this field. One of the key solution is to accelerate the tourism linkage.

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