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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Traveling Vietnam Sea: Great potential but "poor" service

Vietnam is a country with great potential of the sea and islands as there are more than 1 million km2 of marine area, more than 3,000 km long coastline that stretches across North-Central-South; thousands of islands and islets with white sandy beaches, blue water and two archipelagos Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.
Abundant Resources
Halong Bay, Nha Trang Bay is the famous tourist destinations of Vietnam, while Da Nang beach has been voted Forbes 1 in 6 sexiest beach planet. These are ideal conditions for Vietnam to exploit the tourism potential.
Tourism accounts for about 70% of the island's activities throughout Vietnam tourism. There were 2,770 coastal islands and a variety of beautiful beaches from north to south with different characteristics.
Among them are 125 beaches, bays favorable to develop tourism and over 30/125 of these have been the best to exploit local economic development, poverty alleviation.
Some popular destinations attracting many international visitors to the annual tour of Ha Long Bay - World Natural Heritage of Quang Ninh; Nha Trang Bay - one of the most beautiful bays in the world; Da Nang beach - each year attracts about 70% of international passenger traffic and 50% of domestic tourists, bring 70% of revenue for the national tourism industry.
In the development strategy of Vietnam's tourism, marine tourism is a strong priority in which each locality, landlocked regions on this S-shaped strip of land could develop sea tourism products an different.
For example, the central strip from Sam Son (Thanh Hoa), Cua Lo (Nghe An) to Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Da Nang, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, Binh Thuan, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province attraction tourists by beautiful beaches, and Halong and Cat Ba, besides the beauty of the sea to more spectacular limestone landscape.
Sea travel has brought opportunities for poverty reduction, improve the lives of people in coastal areas many localities in the country. The beautiful natural beach attracted many business travelers making the construction accommodation facilities, tourism infrastructure, coastal areas to meet the needs of travelers.
According to statistics from the General Department of Tourism said that Vietnam's coastal region has 1,400 accommodation establishments, especially hotels of 3 stars and above are largely concentrated here.
The local products related to the sea in which the development of the brand, imprints of local cultures and contribute significantly to the development of products associated with the tour.
Sea travel is still a potential
Currently, Vietnam's tourism has yet to answer the 4 most important questions of development of sea tourism, which is the Who to? Come here to do? How come? Leave something?
Experts in the industry generally have data on international tourists choose Vietnam as a destination sea, but not a clear analysis of each market for each market different customer needs.
Questions came here to do what has not been answered satisfactorily, because Vietnam lacks too much sea supplementary services or product variety entertainment on the sea as the water in the area.
In another aspect, Vietnam tourism is wasted in the process of exploiting tourism potential of the sea. Planning of the many beautiful beaches in Vietnam has been broken, fragmented and difficult development adjustments.
Typically, Mui Ne beach is stuck in space when there is so much of coastal hotels and resorts in the thick chen sea frontage.
Cruise industry in Vietnam has not attracted tourists because Vietnam currently has no passenger port sea ship special. Tourist ships are docked with cargo port, so the quality of service as well as technical conditions at these ports does not ensure high quality to visitors.
On the other hand, tourism product in the destination of tourists is monotonous, travel security issues is inadequate, qualified human resources for the tourism industry is still limited in skills, foreign languages ..
Demand for guests sailing on the weekend rose very high, marine tourism centers are overwhelmed. The biggest disadvantage is the service in this place lacks, weakness and little supplementary services for guests entertainment and shopping.
Some waters are great potential but very difficult to take guests to the east as the amount of Ha Tien, Hon Chong Phu Quoc and Kien Giang province, due to lack of infrastructure, services or routes are not very favorable.
Security and order and price management as well as the issue that most urgent business travel. Many resort to the price at the last minute to make guests grievances. Prices may be higher at peak days but should not exceed 50% compared to weekdays and this needs to be informed prior to guests, as well as tour operators.
According to Truong Thi Nhu Ngoc, Information Centre and Tourism Promotion Tra Vinh, Vietnam beaches so far developed in a way spontaneous and somewhat arbitrary, individual nature and not specific.
The seaside resort in Vietnam with high prices, mainly targeted at international audiences and an affluent part of domestic tourists, travelers finally pushed the average income to travel abroad. Meanwhile, international visitors to Vietnam just go seasonal (usually the last four months of the year), left most of the time not fully exploited occupancy.
On the length 3,260km coastline, Vietnam has many advantages to build a center for tourists, but so far no specific ports are available for guests.
Multiple Ship passenger in Vietnam still anchored by the cargo port, causing inconvenience and not catch anything extra added value such as shopping, entertainment, dining in port.
The journey moves from port to the city center takes too much time, because this is the way many cargo trucks, making guests complained. Therefore, Vietnam's tourism has lost some market opportunities from this hotel brings.
Moreover, the exploitation of tourism potential in some local sea irrational. Evidence that the system is world heritage lying coastal recognized only Hoi An, Halong, Hue is well exploited, and Phong Nha-Ke Bang is not.
Guests are mainly concentrated in the central beach, other beaches just a seasonal pickup. The development of the beach as planned, causing duplicate products.
Such Lang Co beach while heavily influenced by northern climate, the rain lasted for years, but the organization of the resort like Da Nang, Quang Nam is affected by the southern climate.
Development of the most attractive cruise Southeast Asia
With orientation cruise 2020 Vietnam ranked in the group of countries with the most developed marine tourism in Southeast Asia (with Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia), from now to 2020, Vietnam established 5 regional travelers Cruise has high competitiveness in the region include Ha Long-Cat Ba area; Lang Co-Son Tra-Hoi An; Nha Trang-Cam Ranh; Phan Thiet Mui Ne; Phu Quoc resort.
Besides, the beach resort is also great potential for development investment like Van Don-Co; Initial tour operators in Changsha; investment, tourism operators dedicated port.
Ecotourism is considered a new type but promises to thrive in the future potential for ecologically very diverse. Vietnam has more than 20 types of ecosystems typical of the biodiversity 6 different sea.
These ecosystems have enormous value services, the residence, reproduction, breeding nurseries of many aquatic species native species and migration, as well as some ecosystems have high biological productivity the coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves.
Entire Vietnam waters in the tropical monsoon region with significant differences in climate between the sea, very favorable to the formation of fauna and flora with high biological diversity. Therefore, organizations implement marine conservation will create momentum for the development of the brand name "Sea of ​​Vietnam."
To enhance the stature and branding Vietnam sea travel, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 201 / QD-TTg, approving the master plan on tourism development in Vietnam until 2020, Vision 2030.
With a view to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector, the increasing proportion of GDP, creating a driving force of economic development-social, so now, Vietnam's tourism sector should soon overcome these drawbacks, rapid development of tourism in general and tourism in particular sea towards professional, modern, attractive destination and convenient for all local and foreign tourists
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