Provincial leader receives Tourism Promotion Organization for Asia Pacific Cities

19/06/2019 10:43

(BNP) – In the afternoon of June 18, Mr. Nguyen Tu Quynh, Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Committee received and worked with the Tourism Promotion Organization for Asia Pacific Cities (TPO) led by Mr. Kim So-il, Secretary-General of TPO to visit and research investment opportunities in Bac Ninh.

Chairman Nguyen Tu Quynh presents the Quan ho logo to TPO.

At the working session, Mr. Kim So-il thanked the Chairman of the provincial People's Committee for his respectful reception, and said that, established in 2002 in Fukuoka (Japan), TPO now has a network of nearly 100 cities in the world, among which, there are 5 cities of Vietnam including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Da Lat, Da Nang and Hai Phong. It performs the function of exchanging information, promoting tourist spots, developing new tourism products, training human resources for the tourism sector and so on.

Mr. Kim So-il expressed his hoed to connect and promote tourism development of Bac Ninh based on traditional features, update trends, mechanisms, models and new policies in management to promote tourism development of the province.

Welcoming TPO to visit and research investment opportunities in Bac Ninh, Chairman Nguyen Tu Quynh briefed o the outstanding achievements in Bac Ninh’s socio-economic development as well as the potential and strengths for tourism development of the province. Bac Ninh is known not only as an economically dynamic province but also an unique culture, a long-standing historical tradition with about 2,000 historical and cultural relics and over 500 traditional festivals. In particular, Bac Ninh is also an ideal destination for investors from many Asian - Pacific countries such as Japan, Korea, Singapore ... thereby, there are many potentials to attract and develop tourism.

Highly appreciating the idea of TPO, the Chairman assigned the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to strengthen coordination, review and implementation of procedures according to regulations to sign the cooperation minutes in cultural tourism development between the province and TPO.

* Also in this afternoon, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Tu Quynh received and worked with Mr. Choi YongHun, Vice Chairman of the Korea - Vietnam Friendship Association to learn about the investment environment in Bac Ninh./