Close to 1.6 million tourists arrivedin the central province of Thua Thien-Hue in the first six months ofthis year, including 572,000 international visitors.
The tourism sector raked in 1.4 trillion VND (67 million USD) in revenue, a year-on-year rise of 2 percent.
The 2015 Hue Traditional Craft Festival, hosted on the occasion ofnational public holidays (April 30 and May 1), drew more than 100,000visitors, up 22 percent from the previous year.
TheHue Relics Preservation Centre has to date welcomed nearly 1.1 millionvisitors, half of whom are from abroad, Director of the centre PhanThanh Hai said.
Besides launching the Golden TourismWeek programme on April 22-28 and June 15-21, the centre has organised awide range of activities to serve visitors such as music performances,royal parties and exhibitions.
The province plans toimprove tourism infrastructure, such as completing construction of theDien Bien Phu road to serve tourism in the southwest part of Hueimperial city – a UNESCO-recognised world heritage – while upgradingrelic sites in the Hue Relics Preservation Centre, the Revolution andHistory Museum and the Ho Chi Minh Museum.
Thelocality will also improve the quality of charter flights from Bangkokto Hue and vice versa and open at least six direct flights between thetwo sides. Other plans will implement programmes to promote tourisminvestments in Hong Kong (China) and at the Korea World Travel Fair(KOTFA) and the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) tourismexpo.-VNA
