Actively Awakening Tourism Potential

Besides the two landscapes: An Mountain-the Tra River, Quang Ngai’s highlights are also in the 100 km long coastline and romantic Ly Son Island outpost attractive to tourists. Here, everything is left untouched which mesmerizes tourists like Sa Huynh windswept beach, My Khe Beach, Khe Hai and Ba Lang An Cape, nestled inside pine forests, or Dang Thuy Tram tourist area (Duc Pho); Prime Minister Pham Van Dong vestige (Mo Duc); White Fall (Minh Long), Truong Luy wall (Ba To, Nghia Hanh); Son My remnants (Son Tinh) are always ideal for tourists who want to explore the beauty of culture and history of the land and people of Quang Ngai. Especially Ly Son Island is home to many historical and cultural sites of maritime sovereignty of Spratly Islands and Paracel islands.

 

Mr Ta Quy - Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Ngai province said that in recent years, tourism of Quang Ngai has achieved initial results, shown in higher awareness on tourism of all levels and agencies, gradually improved infrastructure and technical facilities and step by step creating tourism products, increased number of tourists over the years, increased tourism revenues every years, contributing to the province's GDP and attracting a large number of projects and solving thousands of employers.

 

Accordingly, the tourism industry has gradually asserted an important role in the socio - economic development of the province. From 2005 to 2010, the number of international tourists to Quang Ngai increased by 15.1 percent and domestic visitors increased by14.2 percent. Particularly in 2012, the province welcomed 420.511 arrivals, an increase of 15 percent compared to 2011 (of which almost 30 thousand international visitors), the revenue was more than VND 315 billion. The province has 65 tourist accommodation establishments with 2,000 rooms, including three 3-star hotels and one 4-star hotel.

 

We can see the potential for marine tourism in Quang Ngai is very high, but it is still only in the form of potential. If it is fully exploited, the number of visitors to Quang Ngai will be higher. So to wake and efficiently exploit available tourism potential, Quang Ngai Province has set a target by 2015 to develop tourism sector to play an important role in the economic structure of the province and become one of the tourist centres in the Central Highland region. By 2020, Quang Ngai strives to be classified as province having tourism development in the country.

 

Regarding the specific targets, in 2015 the province will attract 600,000 visitors, earn VND700 billion with 12,400 people working in the tourism, and in 2020, it will attract some 950,000 visitors, earning up to VND1,000 billion.

 

To accomplish this goal, Quang Ngai has outlined some key tasks such as continuing investment and improvement of infrastructure to enhance investment, tourism business in tourist sites such as Truong Luy, Ly Son Island District, My Khe, Sa Huynh, Ca Dam - Water Reservoir; and further investment, renovation and restoration the value of cultural heritages and historical and cultural sites.

 

At the same time, the province encourages different economic sectors to invest in development of advanced entertainment services, tourist accommodation facilities and high quality travel services, especially in urban areas, tourist spots and in the district of Ly Son; continues promoting tourism with diverse, flexible and focused forms with specific topics and sees it as groundbreaking task of developing tourism in the province.