Provincial Tourism Promotion Center: Contribute to promoting Bac Ninh tourism

02/11/2017 14:09

(BNP) - Provincial Tourism Promotion Center under Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has actively furthered tourism promotion activities for widely advertising the potentials, strengths of Bac Ninh tourism to domestic and foreign tourists recently.

Visitors are joining the Lim festival.

Established and come into operation in 2014, the tourism promotion has been encouraged and more and more professional by the Center in organizing events so far. Also, it has yearly coordinated with relevant units not only to guide and serve visitors, diplomatic delegations; to distribute brochures on Bac Ninh's historical relics, culture, handicraft villages as well. Particularly, in March 2017, many provincial events, especially the 185th anniversary of establishment and the 25th re-establishment of Bac Ninh province, were organized actively and creatively in Bac Ninh, hereby attracting many tourists.

By contributing to the overall success of the above event, the Center has strengthened the propaganda and promotion of Bac Ninh tourism. The special highlight in this tourism season is about the free bus tours which aim to serve the people and visitors, including 03 main routes: Kinh Duong Duong Temple - But Thap Pagoda - Dau Pagoda - Dong Ho folk paintings village; Memorial House of General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu – Do Temple – Phat Tich Pagoda – Quan ho Founder Temple; Le Van Thinh Temple - Dai Bi Pagoda - Le Chi Vien - Tam Phu Temple (along Duong river dyke), etc, contributing to promoting the image of Bac Ninh with rich culture, hospitality and active development to friends within and outside the country.
 

Introducing Bac Ninh’s tourism at the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival Day.

In addition, the Center has participated in 7 events for promoting tourism such as organizing tourism information booth at the Phat Tich and Lim festival, and the Ho Chi Minh Tourism Festival Day; participating in Trade Fair of Food and Handicraft villages in Thai Nguyen, Ha Nam and at the Mau Son Tourism Festival, especially at the Trade Fair of the Red River Delta organized by the Trade Promotion Agency (Ministry of Industry and Trade) in collaboration with Department of Industry and Commerce in Bac Ninh; introducing tourists on boat performance of Quan ho folk songs for supporting positively in the work of tourism encouragement.

The work of travelling guidance has also been actively carried out in various channels. For instance, the Center has built and officially put the website Bac Ninh’s Tourism (www.dulichbacninh.gov.vn) into operation for providing information on the routes, points, restaurants, hotels’ address in Bac Ninh province. Thank to these promotion programs, it has facilitated visitors to Bac Ninh, contributing to rising the passenger turns, tourism revenue, creating job for local residents. In the first 9 months of 2017, total arrivers to Bac Ninh were estimated at 781,000 people, leaded to an increase of 17% over the same period last year. Total tourism revenue is estimated at VND 620 billion, increases up to 19%.

Therefore, Bac Ninh tourism, in the near future, officially becomes a main factor to promote the socio-economic development of the province, actively contributing to building Bac Ninh to become a centrally- controlled city in 2022./.