Wednesday, 17/10/2018 17:35 (GMT+7)
Bac Ninh greeted 993,000 tourist arrivals in the first 9 months of 2018, up 32% over a year earlier; in which foreigners numbered 120,000, up 18.6%, reported To Quoc News.
The Do temple relic. (Pho to: Bac Ninh News)
Total tourism turnover, including restaurants and accommodation, reached VND714 billion during the period, up 15%.
Aiming to achieve this result, with the focus on expanding spiritual tourism activities in combination with traditional festivals, the provincial People’s Committee guided departments to coordinate with localities and enterprises to exploit free tours to temples, communal houses and pagodas. In addition, Bac Ninh also hosted tours in line with cultural events and national holidays to attract more tourists.
Being a land of convergence of thousands of unique architectural works, festivals, major Buddhist center under feudal dynasties, Bac Ninh province has the advantage to develop cultural and spiritual tourism into strengths for socio-economic development.
The northern locality has 1,558 historical and cultural relics, temples, pagodas, mausoleums; including nearly 200 national relics and four special national relics. Together with relics, it also has 547 traditional festivals and 60 traditional craft villages.
By 2020, Bac Ninh strives to greet more than 1.7 million tourist arrivals, in which 80,000 were foreigners. The growth rate for the 2016 - 2020 period reaches 20.5% a year, for a total of 7.6 million tourists, including 390,000 foreigners.
The growth rate for the 2021 - 2030 period is expected to hit 17% a year. The density of international visitors will increase from 4.4% in 2015 to 4.7% in 2020, and 5.1% in 2030./.
BTA