The central coastal province of Quang Binh has for the first time held a tourism and trade promotion event in France, with its Paris conference on June 12 gathering many from the French business and Vietnamese expatriate communities.
The World Tourism Organisation on October 19 honoured Tan Hoa village in Minh Hoa district, central Quang Binh province, as the best tourist village in the world. Tan Hoa was the only entry from Vietnam among the 260 applicants from 60 countries and territories seeking the title.
Central Quang Binh province has identified tourism and services as economic pillars, but Covid-19 hit the hospitality industry in Vietnam in general and Quang Binh in particular quite hard, forcing many destinations to close down. The province has now introduced programmes to help the sector recover post pandemic, including private, exclusive, and closed-circle tours.
The Ma Coong ethnic minority group’s drum beating festival and traditional boat racing on Kien Giang River in the central province of Quang Binh have been officially recognised as national intangible cultural heritages by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The Tourism Department of central Quang Binh province announced on June 25 that it is working with Google to launch a campaign popularising regional travel destinations on YouTube and Google Arts & Culture platform.
The central province of Quang Binh has approved a list of 48 projects calling for investment for the 2018-2020 period, with an expected amount of up to over 50 trillion VND (2.2 billion USD).
