Bac Ninh attracts 1.1 million tourists in 2017

05/01/2018 10:10

(BNP) – In 2017, the province's Culture, Sports and Tourism sector focused on promoting tourism propaganda and developing tourism and successfully organized many free tours in order to serve for visitors.

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Among which, the province successfully organized a series of activities to celebrate the 185th anniversary of establishment 20 th anniversary of re-establishment of the provinc and receive the first-class independent medal, Art performance entitled “Âm vang miền Quan Ho”( Reverberation of Quan ho region), so on.

Inn 2017, Bac Ninh attracted 1,100.000 tourists with an increase of 26 percent compared with 2016; total visitor's day was 742,000 days, up 58.55 percent compared with 2016.  Turnover of tourism was estimated at VND 710 billion with an increase of 21 percent compared with 2016.

In the coming time, the provincial Culture, Sports and Tourism sector would accelerate the measures to make tourism become a key economic sector.