A pedestrian street near Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc square in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi's Department of Tourism plans toorganise a series of night-time tourism activities to tap the potential of the night-time economy and attract more visitors to the capital city.
The information was announced by the department at aconference held on August 2 to collect experts' opinions on night-time tourism products.
Hanoi hassuccessfully built night-time tourism products, including night tours of Thang LongImperial Citadel, Hoa Lo prison relic site, Vietnam Literature Museum and night pedestrianstreets.
These tours have brought manyexperiences to visitors, creating unique features of Hanoi tourism. However, theyhave also revealed shortcomings as some pedestrian streets operateinefficiently and there are not many products available. Therefore, the buildingof night-time tourism products should be calculated carefully to ensure theprofessionalism of the products.
According to Vice Chairman ofthe Vietnam Travel Association Phung Quang Thang, tourism activities in the night-time economy should involve the participation of many sectors and people.
It is necessary for the cityto issue an appropriate policy for these activities, thereby, it can developspecific tourism products such as cultural tourism, night-time culinary tourism,and shopping tourism, he said.
Thang said that it ispossible to build some night tours in combination with food tours in the city’sOld Quarter to attract visitors.
Concurring with Thang’sopinion, Director of the Institute for Tourism Development Research Nguyen AnhTuan said that, in addition to a favourable policy, Hanoi should consider expandingnight-time tourism products such as developing tourism services on both sides of theRed River and devising a plan for the construction of a modern shopping centrenear the city’s centre, such as an underground shopping mall as in manycountries.
Director of the Hanoi Departmentof Tourism Dang Huong Giang said it plans to organise a workshop on developingHanoi's night-time tourism products as well as launching an online review on "Hanoinight welcomes you", adding that morenight tour products will be set up in the coming time./.
