Over a decade ago, three central coastal localities of Da Nang, Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam made joint efforts to develop shared tourism products with improved-quality.

A visitor learning about tourism products at a pavilion hosted by Da Nang, Thua Thien Hue, and Quang Nam in a fair.

Amongst the popular tourism products, the most highly recommended are the tours namely ‘Hanh Trinh Di San Mien Trung’ (Heritage Discovery Tours in the Central Region), and ‘Con Duong Di San Mien Trung’ (Heritage Road in the Central Region).

These tours feature trips to the UNESCO-recognised world heritage sites of Hue Citadel in Thua Thien Hue Province, and Hoi An and My Son Sanctuary in Quang Nam Province.

In recent years, the localities have together created closer links with other provinces and cities nationwide in order to promote tourism cooperation, especially between Thua Thien Hue - Da Nang - Quang Nam and Ha Noi.

Accordingly, the localities have often shared information relating to human resources working in hospitality sector and the Viet Nam Tourism Occupational Skills Standards (VTOS).

The focus has been on organising seminars for local tourism businesses and training centres, plus enhancing the exchange of tourism situation and activities in the three localities in a bid to offer effective support solutions each other.

Inspectors from departments of Tourism have together monitored travel activities, cheap tours and tourism violation-related information in the 3 central localities.

Also, importance has been attached to having coordinated with educational institutions on Chinese, South Korean and Thai languages in order to train foreign language-speaking tour guides to serve international tourists.

The pavilion is very attractive to visitors

According to Mrs Huynh Thi Huong Lan, the Deputy Director of the Da Nang Tourism Promotion Centre, over recent years, Da Nang and the neighbouring provinces of Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam have jointly conducted tourism promotion activities at both home and abroad.

Included are the Viet Nam International Travel Mart 2018 in Ha Noi, the International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City 2018, the ITB Asia Singapore 2018 - the Asia's leading travel trade show, and the 2019 International Travel Trade Show (ITB) Berlin.

Most notably, these localities have together received famtrip delegations of representatives from travel and media agencies from Malaysia, Hong Kong and South Korea’s Daegu to survey their local tourism products and attractions.

Deputy Director of the Da Nang Tourism Department Nguyen Xuan Binh highlighted the efficiency and professionalism of tourism connection and promotion activities conducted by the 3 regional central localities.

He emphasised that this year tourism cooperation between these localities would be fostered with a focus on organising festivals and events in their localities more reasonably in order to avoid the duplication of organising time.

Mr Binh also added heed would be paid to developing tours ‘Con Duong Di San’ (Heritage Road) and ‘Duong Mon Sinh Thai’ (Ecological Trail), and joining efforts to create unique inter-regional tourism products.