National Tourism Year Mekong - Can Tho 2008

2:05:50 PM | 2/11/2007

In next three months, the event of National Tourism Year Mekong - Can Tho 2008 themed “Mekong River Tourism” will take place in Can Tho City and Mekong Delta provinces. The city authority is hurrying up the preparation for the big event.
 
As of September, 12 provinces in the region and Ho Chi Minh City registered to take part in the event, with 22 festival events, in which Can Tho City registered 24 events (excluding additional trade, industry fairs and some other events). Activities of promotion and popularisation have been fostered on public communication channels and internet network. Some activities in the opening week from February 21 to February 27, 2008 will be held in Can Tho City such as street festival, the announcement ceremony of the national tourism year 2008, Ninh Kieu station festival, Mekong - Can Tho Tourism and Trade Fair, Mekong Delta gastronomy culture festival, travelling conference and Mekong tourist guide contest, Mekong Delta Miss Final Contest and underwater sport activities.
 
Staying units in the city have been incessantly added and upgraded. In the first nine months of this year, Can Tho admitted more 11 new hotels, bringing the total existing hotels in the city to 126, with 3,132 rooms, including 27 one-star to four-star hotels with 1,167 rooms. In the second quarter of 2007, the Department of Tourism coordinated with economic offices of districts to recheck all tourism points and gardens in the city, and select best gardens to put into exploitation and popularisation on the website www.cantho-tourism.com. .
 
Mr. Dinh Viet Khanh, director of Can Tho City’s Tourism Department said “The department will arrange to meet with investors of Gia Trang restaurant, Ba Lang tourism area, and Bang Lang stork garden to listen their opinions and provide them with investment consultancy in order to build more new tourism areas for visitors to Can Tho. On the other hands, Can Tho’s tourism industry is trying to improve the quality of tourism services. In the short term, in order to prepare for the National Tourism Year 2008, the department has sent a large number of managers in restaurants and hotels to Spain, and Malaysia for training”. From now to the end of the year, Can Tho has passed the film script and theatre script to select an event organiser for the opening night and street festival taking place in Can Tho from February 21 of next year. The city will organise a conference on Mekong Delta ecotourism development and Famtrip delegations to survey tourism routes in Can Tho and Mekong Delta.