The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) has announced amaster plan for the development of culture, sports and tourism for thekey central economic region until 2020 with a vision to 2030.
Accordingly,Da Nang city and Hue city will become hubs of culture, art andscientific research, as well as a cultural, art and family personneltraining centres for the whole central and Central Highlands regions.
The preservation and promotion of world culturalheritages like Hoi An Ancient Town, My Son Sanctuary and Hue MonumentComplex will be prioritised, while the submission of “bai choi” folksinging for UNESCO recognition as a world intangible heritage ofhumankind in 2015 is also one of the focuses of the plan.
A number of festivals featuring international dances, Vietnamtraditional martial arts and firework performances will be maintainedand promoted. Meanwhile, a Da Nang Fine Art Museum will bebuilt, together with a Hoang Sa-Truong Sa History Museum in Quang Ngaiprovince.
At the same time, a culture-art university will be established by 2030, according to the plan.
The plan also sets to make the key central economic region, includingfive cities and provinces of Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, Quang Nam,Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh, a sports hub of the central and CentralHighlands regions, with Da Nang city playing the core role.
The region is set to be a key tourism centre of the country withvarious tourism products, including cultural-history, spiritual andmaritime tourism.
The master plan, approved by the PrimeMinister last November, envisages that the region will welcome sixmillion foreign tourists and eight million domestic visitors, earningtourism revenues of 2.1 billion USD by 2020 and creating 80,000 jobs inthe process, said MCST Deputy Minister Huynh Vinh Ai at the launchceremony in Da Nang city on January 9.
Correspondingfigures for 2030 are expected to reach 10 and 15 million foreign anddomestic tourists, tourism revenues of 3.8 billion USD and 140,000 newjobs, he added.
The central coastal region welcomed 3.48 millionand 7.83 million foreign and domestic visitors in 2013, respectively,earning 15.79 trillion VND (752 million USD) in 2013, just 8 percent ofthe country's tourism income.-VNA
Accordingly,Da Nang city and Hue city will become hubs of culture, art andscientific research, as well as a cultural, art and family personneltraining centres for the whole central and Central Highlands regions.
The preservation and promotion of world culturalheritages like Hoi An Ancient Town, My Son Sanctuary and Hue MonumentComplex will be prioritised, while the submission of “bai choi” folksinging for UNESCO recognition as a world intangible heritage ofhumankind in 2015 is also one of the focuses of the plan.
A number of festivals featuring international dances, Vietnamtraditional martial arts and firework performances will be maintainedand promoted. Meanwhile, a Da Nang Fine Art Museum will bebuilt, together with a Hoang Sa-Truong Sa History Museum in Quang Ngaiprovince.
At the same time, a culture-art university will be established by 2030, according to the plan.
The plan also sets to make the key central economic region, includingfive cities and provinces of Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, Quang Nam,Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh, a sports hub of the central and CentralHighlands regions, with Da Nang city playing the core role.
The region is set to be a key tourism centre of the country withvarious tourism products, including cultural-history, spiritual andmaritime tourism.
The master plan, approved by the PrimeMinister last November, envisages that the region will welcome sixmillion foreign tourists and eight million domestic visitors, earningtourism revenues of 2.1 billion USD by 2020 and creating 80,000 jobs inthe process, said MCST Deputy Minister Huynh Vinh Ai at the launchceremony in Da Nang city on January 9.
Correspondingfigures for 2030 are expected to reach 10 and 15 million foreign anddomestic tourists, tourism revenues of 3.8 billion USD and 140,000 newjobs, he added.
The central coastal region welcomed 3.48 millionand 7.83 million foreign and domestic visitors in 2013, respectively,earning 15.79 trillion VND (752 million USD) in 2013, just 8 percent ofthe country's tourism income.-VNA
