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According to experts and tourism service businesses, An Giang has a great advantage to develop into a tourism center not only in the Southwest region, but also has great competitiveness domestically and even internationally. Deputy Director of Vietravel Kien Giang Branch Tran Van Tam commented that thanks to its large tourism space, the locality can easily develop large-scale tourism areas, form new products, new tours/routes with attractive, unique inter-regional characteristics, attracting tourists. An Giang can fully expect a synchronized tourism with many unique and novel experiences, especially long-term tourism products that help tourists explore and experience a series of services from "Fairyland" to "Sea and Island Paradise" with reasonable and complete itineraries, helping to extend the length of stay and increase the spending value of tourists.
Mr. Tam said that the formation of an integrated tourism area from the two localities of An Giang and Kien Giang (old) helps tourism businesses create many diverse experience itineraries within a short travel radius, flexible tour programs and combos from cultural - historical tourism, ecology, religious works, sea and island tourism in Phu Quoc, Nam Du, Hon Son. Tourism businesses have more opportunities to expand the market, strengthen links, cooperate to develop and exploit new products, of a linear nature... promoting sustainable tourism development.
Tourism expert Phan Yen Ly, who has been in charge of product development for Saigontourist for more than 30 years, believes that An Giang used to be famous for its unique image of mountains in the middle of the plain and spiritual tourism, but now with the addition of sea, islands, and world biosphere reserves, tourism products are certainly more diverse and abundant. "The merger creates conditions for the tourism industry to restructure the local tourism development strategy, opening regional linkage tours to help An Giang exploit its advantages to increase the appeal of the new tourism brand," Ms. Ly affirmed.
However, experts and businesses believe that despite having many potentials, advantages and conveniences, An Giang tourism still faces certain obstacles after the merger. In particular, connecting traffic infrastructure, tourism technical infrastructure, quality of human resources, etc. are not uniform among localities. Therefore, the first thing to do after the merger is to assess the overall tourism resources to develop a tourism development plan for the province, ensuring synchronous connectivity and maximizing potential and advantages. On that basis, the province positions the brand in accordance with each locality, and at the same time has a promotion and communication strategy to bring the new image of An Giang tourism to domestic and foreign tourism markets.
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Member of the Vietnam Tourism Association Do Trong Hiep suggested that to build a new tourism brand, it is necessary to start from identity; at the same time, convey cultural stories through creative tourism products and a team of professional tour guides. In addition, the province needs to train each citizen to be a brand ambassador, a tourism ambassador. "When merging provinces, localities must redesign the tourism map and tourism communication strategy of the province. Therefore, local authorities should coordinate with the business community in planning infrastructure, tourism techniques, especially the promotion of An Giang tourism to best promote the potential and advantages of the province" - Mr. Hiep said.
According to expert Phan Yen Ly, to promote An Giang tourism development, An Giang needs to systematize typical tourism products, strengthen tourism human resources, attract synchronous domestic and foreign investment and public investment in transport infrastructure and industry facilities; in particular, it is necessary to build a new An Giang tourism brand to serve promotion. Because An Giang tourism areas develop unevenly, it is necessary to have preferential policies to attract investment. In addition, the province should pay attention to environmental protection, limit concretization of destinations; develop intra-regional linkage chains, not only within the province but also other provinces and cities in the Southwest region and domestically. An Giang also has great culinary advantages from aquatic products, seafood, river gardens, hills and mountains, etc., so it is necessary to promote this advantage. The province should have a food festival like Singapore did, this product will certainly attract tourists and create a brand, a unique tourism product of the province.
| Mr. Tran Thanh Minh, a tourist from Can Tho City, said, “I have traveled to Kien Giang and An Giang (old) many times, each place has many attractive typical products. I hope the new An Giang province will have new inter-regional products that are more attractive and unique. With its outstanding potential and advantages, I think this will be a unique and vibrant tourism market.” |
Source: https://baoangiang.com.vn/an-giang-trung-tam-du-lich-cua-vung-tay-nam-bo-a423748.html
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