Hanoi (VNA) – System planning is an important basis for
overcoming discrepancies, limitations, and weaknesses in Vietnam’s tourism and
creating breakthroughs for the industry to thrive during economic green transformation,
said Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha.
Chairing
a December 25 meeting of the council for the appraisal of the tourism network planning for the
2021-2030 period with a vision to 2030, Ha said that is an
important step to concretise the Politburo’s resolutions on the development of
socio-economic regions, national master planning, and regional planning.
Moreover,
the planning must present a vision that tourism is an integrated economic
sector, pioneering and promoting other sectors to green transformation, he said.
Regarding
the need to identify tourism areas and hubs, Ha said that it is
necessary to expand the “one road, multi-destinations” model by
connecting complementary product chains.
He
also suggested orientations to develop markets, products, and criteria for
forming national tourism centres and indicators to evaluate the overall economic
efficiency of the industry.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said that Vietnam strives to become an attractive
destination with high development potential in the world by 2025.
It’s
expected that by 2030, tourism will become a key economic sector with sustainable
development in Vietnam, and the country will thrive to turn itself into a destination with leading development capacity in
the world.
Until
2045, tourism will affirm its role as an economic driver, making Vietnam an
outstanding global destination in the group of leading tourism
developing countries in the Asia-Pacific.
Along
with domestic and international market development orientations, Vietnam will
develop main product lines including marine tourism, local cultural values,
eco-tourism, tourism products associated with economic, cultural, and
political-social centres, and new types of tourism.
A
total investment of about 4 trillion VND (190 billion USD) is needed to boost
the country’s tourism, the minister said, adding that priorities will be given
to remove bottlenecks and deal with weaknesses in Vietnam’s tourism./.