Quang Nam Heritage Festival to promote tourism

The sixth Quang Nam Heritage Festival, which is slated for early June, will be an opportunity for the central province of Quang Nam to introduce, promote and boost investment for tourism development.
Quang Nam Heritage Festival to promote tourism ảnh 1My Son Sanctuary in Quang Nam Province (Photo: VNA)
 
 Quang Nam (VNA) – The sixth Quang Nam HeritageFestival, which is slated for early June, will be an opportunity for thecentral province of Quang Nam to introduce, promote and boost investment fortourism development.

This year’s festival, themed “Quang Nam - Connecting Cultural Heritage”, ishoped to help visitors gain insight into Quang Nam as a land with a variety oftangible and intangible heritages stretching from plains, coastline, islands toremote inland areas, said Dinh Hai, Director of the provincial Department ofCulture, Sport and Tourism.

The festival, which will be held in every locality across Quang Nam, willfeatures art performances and culture exchange activities in Hoi An and My SonSanctuary.

Sea activities will take place during the event with a view of giving visitorsnew experience on culture of the “heritage coastline”.

Meanwhile, a new marine tour linking Chu Lai – Cu Lao Cham – Tam Hai (QuangNam) and Ly Son (Quang Ngai) is scheduled to be launched in May.

The provincial Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism has coordinated withlocalities to prepare traditional and cultural activities, while the localauthorities has asked accommodation owners to improve their service quality to meetthe demand of domestic and foreign visitors.

To date, the province has 8,000 accommodations for tourists, of which 55percent being 3–star and above standards.

Quang Nam aims to attract 1 million tourists during the festival.-VNA
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