In 2020-2021, the provincial tourism industry implemented a series of solutions to attract millions of tourists in and abroad, growth compared to pre-epidemic.
In the first quarter of 2021, visitors tourism to the province is 352,623 turns of people, an increase of 114.8% over the same period in 2020. Of which, there are 1,568 international visitors, passport and passport. Revenue from tourism reached 581 billion.
Before 2020, when Covid-19 broke out, causing the domestic tourism industry to suffer heavily, Ha Giang's tourism industry still reached 100% of the plan, up 7% compared to 2019, with 1.5 million. passengers. Revenue from tourism is estimated at 2,477 billion VND.
Nho Que River (Ha Giang province) is one of the destinations in Ha Giang not to be missed. Photo: Instagram
To achieve the above growth, Ha Giang province has applied a series of measures to attract tourists and restore tourism activities. The first is to build a brand of Ha Giang to a safe, civilized and friendly destination.
The province promotes specialized and interdisciplinary inspection, inspection, quality control of tourism service facilities and deployed a hotline to handle comments and questions of tourists.
At the same time in 2020, the province will organize training for 480 workers in the province, including receptionist operations, cabins, tables, bars, food processing, English for tourism, tour guides ... to improve the quality of resources.
Besides, it is building a stimulus program, reducing ticket prices by 50-80% at tourist destinations. At the same time, encourage tourism businesses to reduce prices but improve service quality, or implement a gratitude and promotion program.
Over the past time, the province has continuously introduced to visitors various products, spread evenly in four seasons such as Ha Giang spring with peach, pear, and plum colors; experience terraced fields in the season of pouring water; Watch the autumn and winter ripe rice terraces with triangles.
Besides, there are sports programs such as the Marathon on the road of Happiness; Paragliding in the golden season, on triangular fields, exploring the cave system ...
Ha Giang's beauty in the season of ripe rice. Photo: Instagram
Several new products have been surveyed and promoted such as the landmark 1509 spiritual tourism and nearby products in Vi Xuyen; experience tour to explore Bac Quang, Quang Binh, Vi Xuyen districts; including destinations such as Trong Con historical relic, Xuan Giang commune community-based cultural and tourism village, experience of Sanh Cam garden in Trung Thanh commune, Vi Xuyen district.
Resort activities associated with nature at Thanh Ha - Vi Xuyen hot spring, Nam Choong - Quang Ngan mineral springs, Xin Man district and Red Dao traditional remedies are also products that attract tourists. .
In addition, the province also promotes the image of Ha Giang's land and people to domestic and international tourists on the industry's website, folding practice, leaflets, Facebook social network ... showcasing culture, tourism, typical products of Ha Giang province in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, The 10th anniversary of Dong Van rocky plateau joining the global Geopark network ...
According to Mr. Nguyen Hong Hai, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Giang Province, the challenge of the Covid-19 epidemic in another aspect is a good opportunity to restructure the economic growth model towards green growth. In particular, the important goal is to preserve and protect natural resources and the environment towards sustainable development.