Putting sea and islands at the focal point

The Ministry of Culture-Sports-Tourism has just announced and implemented the “overall scheming for developing Central South Coastal Region tourism to the year 2020, vision to 2030″, which has been approved by the Prime Minister. Accordingly, the main products for tourism development are of the sea and islands. This is also compatible with the scheme of developing Phu Yen tourism to the year 2020, vision 2025.

One eco-tourism zone in central south coastal region attracting lots of tourists

The Central South Coastal region has the coastal line of nearly 1,200km, with the great concentration of bays, lagoons, long and nice beaches. All the provinces in the region possess nice space, islands with particular features. Therefore, there’s nothing surprising once the “overall scheming for developing Central South Coastal Region tourism to the year 2020, vision to 2030″ selects sea and islands the focal points for investment into development, forming the particular features, strength in comparison with the entire nation.

According to the Deputy Minister of Culture-sports-tourism, Mrs. Dang Thi Bich Lien, in the past time, tourism in the Central South Coastal Region has gained development, making considerablecontributions to the nation’s tourism development, promoting the socio-eco development, making changes to the appearance of lots of localities. Among which, the Deputy Minister emphasized on the factors of sea, islands which are both the strong points for constructing particular-featured tourism products of the region and the significant factors in consolidating national defense-security, contributing to protecting the entire national coastal sovereignty.

To gain the set targets, the scheme also determines the necessity to invest in developing 9 tourism zones, 6 national tourism spots and 4 tourism urbans of the regional provinces, including: the tourism zone of Son Tra archipelago, Ba Na (Da Nang), Cu Lao Cham (Quang Nam), My Khe (Quang Ngai), Phuong Mai (Binh Dinh), Xuan Dai Bay (Phu Yen), North of Cam Ranh (Khanh Hoa), Ninh Chu (Ninh Thuan) and Mui Ne (Binh Thuan). The six national tourismspots include: Marble Mountains (Da Nang), My Son (Quang Nam), Ly Son (Quang Ngai), Truong Luy (Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh), Truong Sa (Khanh Hoa) and Phu Quy (Binh Thuan). The four tourism urbans are: Da Nang city, Hoi An city (Quang Nam), Nha Trang city (Khanh Hoa) and Phan Thiet city (Binh Thuan).

Within the scheme as well as to the assessment of leaders of the ministry of Culture-sports-tourism, tourism in the central South Coastal Region develops positively, making not little contribution to the overall achievements of the sector. However, the regional tourism development is neither stable nor sustainable. Deputy Minister of culture-sports-tourism, Mrs. Dang Thi Bich Lien, said, “Although there have been certain developments and contributions to the entire national tourism sector, tourism in the central South coastal region is remaining the state of lacking coordination, not compatible with the potentials”.

As for natural factors, the provinces and cities in the region are still preserving the ecological systems, biological diversities with the natural preservation zones, national gardens, the factors are linked to sea and islands… These are precious natural resources for sea and islands tourism, ecology. As for geographical locations, the Central South Coastal Region is located on the trans-Vietnam tourism routes, forming the renowned tourism routes “Central region heritage roads”, “Green Central highlands road”, being the linking bridge, the gateway to the East Sea of East-West tourism corridor…

Source: Phu Yen NewspaperTranslated by HAI LOAN

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