(VOVWORLD) - Binh Duong province has intensified its tourism promotion recently despite adversities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. And a growing number of tourists are being drawn to Binh Duong’s new image.
Binh Duong wants to make tourism one of its top smoke-free industries. The provincial Tourism Promotion Center has hosted a myriad of fairs and festivals, to help local tourism firms reach out to potential customers inside and outside Vietnam.
Tourism cooperation among Vietnam’s southeastern localities was expanded in 2020. As a result, new inter-provincial tours have taken shape.
Tran Thanh Liem, Chairman of the Binh Duong provincial People’s Committee, said, “Binh Duong is one of six southeastern localities which have signed a regional tourism development cooperation program with Ho Chi Minh City, a launch pad for local tourism to take off. As part of this program, travel companies in Ho Chi Minh City will operate tours linking our tourist destinations.”
 The Binh Duong Tourism Association welcomes tourists from other provinces. (Photo: baobinhduong.vn) |
The Binh Duong provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism is working with travel agents in organizing a boat tour along the Sai Gon and Dong Nai river across Binh Duong province to get foreigners hooked. Binh Duong will lure tourists to its historical relics, traditional handicraft villages, fruit orchards, and tourism sites that appeal to other interests, like religion and sports.
Nguyen Thanh Phong, Vice Director of the Binh Duong provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, told VOV, “We have devised detailed action plans for putting the cooperation program into practice. Upgrading tourist destinations, improving services, and launching new tours are what we need to do to attract tourists and promote our cultural and historical relic values. We’re calling for more investments in tourism.”
Binh Duong is strengthening socialization of tourism promotion across Vietnam and beyond to other countries, especially ASEAN countries. It wants to be known for its hospitable people and safe adaptation to and effective containment of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 The Binh Duong Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism works with travel agents in organizing a boat tour along the Sai Gon and Dong Nai river. (Photo: baodulich.net) |
In addition to resuming tourism activities, the Binh Duong Tourism Association has organized in December a caravan tour themed “Binh Duong – Magnanimity of Eastern Region 2021”, launched a center to sell local specialties, like lacquer, ceramic, bamboo, and rattan items, and Bach Dang pomelos.
Binh Duong province has seized every opportunity to push its tourism as the COVID-19 pandemic has been gotten under control, generating more jobs for local people and contributing to local economic growth.