The Quang Ninh local government announced its plans to support the tourism sector during the fourth and last quarter of the year: the home to Ha Long Bay, one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature, will host 50 events and activities to promote tourism and to stimulate travel demand.
According to the Director of the provincial Tourism Department Pham Ngoc Thuy, “the provincial People’s Committee has built a plan on tourism recovery and tourist attraction for the fourth quarter. It has also completed a provisional set of criteria for COVID-19 safety evaluation for tourism based on which a safe travel model will be devised to minimise pandemic-related risks to locals and visitors”.
For the last quarter of the year, the Quang Ninh province is expecting to attract 1.9 – 2 million travellers and earn 175.6 – 197.5 million USD from tourism services. In this sense, the provincial administration also asked tourism authorities to start working on a tourism recovery programme for 2022 and 2023, once Quang Ninh is fully reopened to international travel.