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| Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visits Hue University. |
The leader had a working session
with the provincial authorities on January 2 during his working visit to the
locality.
Hue itself should focus on tourism,
services and economic linkages as its breakthrough fields, he said, asking it
to use information technology intensively in managing heritage and developing
tourism.
The city needs to develop a
professional tourism ecosystem that can work to entice visitors to stay in the
city longer as their longer stay generates more incomes, he reasoned.
It should speed up the mobilization
of all resources, especially from the private sector to invest in transport,
tourism, healthcare, industry, and others while paying greater attention to
protecting the ecology, culture and security to deserve its status as the
festival city, he noted.
The PM asked the province to devise
a concrete action plan to implement resolutions of the Party Central Committee,
especially the Government’s Resolution No.01 under the motto “discipline,
uprightness, action, creativity, and efficiency”.
Hue, which was the imperial capital
of Vietnam for hundreds of years, is home to five heritage elements recognized by
UNESCO, namely the Hue ancient citadel relic complex - a World Cultural
Heritage site; Nha Nhac (Hue royal court music)- an intangible cultural
heritage item; Nguyen Dynasty’s wood blocks - a documentary heritage item;
Nguyen Dynasty’s Chau ban (imperial archives) - part of the
Asia-Pacific Register of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program; and literature
on Hue royal architecture - a documentary heritage.
In 2017, the total budget collection
in Hue reached
VND 6.772 trillion (USD 297.96 million). The total number of tourist arrivals
to the ancient imperial city rose 16 percent to 3.8 million. However, the
growth has yet to match its potential.
Participants pointed out the city’s
limitations such as low competitive tourism products, small travel agencies,
low capacity of Phu Bai airport, and unattractive, small and short-day tourism
events.
Minister of Culture, Sports and
Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien suggested building modern art performance centers and
malls that keep visitors to stay longer and spend more in the city.
Meanwhile, Minister-Chairman of the
Government Office Mai Tien Dung said Thua Thien- Hue needs to hire foreign
consultants to devise a local tourism master plan and add more new tourism
products.
On the occasion, he made a
fact-finding tour to the province’s public administrative center and visited
and presented gifts to Heroic Mothers Nguyen Thi Huong and Nguyen Thi Hiep.
Source: VNA