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Halong city to put new tourism products into operation

With efforts to build Ha Long City as a year-round tourist destination, many new tourism products will be put into operation in the near future.
Halong city to put new tourism products into operation

In 2025, Ha Long City aims to attract 11.5 million visitors, including 3 million international visitors. To achieve this goal, the city is focusing on launching new tourism products. Many of these products promise to bring about an "explosion", affirming Ha Long's position and role on the domestic and international tourism map.

In the last days of the year, at Bai Chay walking street, Korean street (K-Street) is being accelerated by Sun Travel Company (Korea) to soon come into operation in March 2025. This will be a meeting place to bring people and tourists unique experiences of Korean style and culture in Ha Long city.

To form the neighborhood, Sun Travel Company rented an entire street with about 56 shophouses from Sun Group Corporation. Up to now, 27 booths have been invested, Sun Travel Company is continuing to renovate the functional items of the shophouses, designed in a bold Korean style and suitable for each brand.

Many activities will take place at the Korean Street with the active support of the Korean Embassy in Vietnam, the Korean Cultural Center and the authorities of some Korean localities such as: the Vietnam - Korea Friendship Street event held annually; the Korean product fair held quarterly; festivals and fairs of Korean regional specialties held monthly. In addition, many diverse cultural events and activities will be held to develop the Korean Street in Ha Long into a bustling and unique tourist street in the country and the region.

In 2024, the city has put 8/14 products into operation to serve tourists: Lighthouse entertainment complex; restaurant cruise combined with wedding on Ha Long Bay; some luxury accommodation cruises; "Old Memories" market; Kim Cuong entertainment complex (Tuan Chau); community tourism model; Bai Chay walking and culinary street. In addition, the city has created conditions and encouraged organizations and individuals to invest and build new products such as: VuiFest walking and culinary street; expanding the "Memory Market" tourism product to Ha Long International Passenger Port... In addition, some accommodation ships and restaurant ships have come into operation, meeting the needs of a large number of tourists. For the spiritual tourism product "King Le Thai To Temple", after 3 months of urgent construction, in mid-January, Ha Long City held a ceremony to raise the roof of the front house and receive donations for the construction and restoration of the temple.

In 2025, the city will continue to accelerate the construction and put into operation 6 unfinished tourism products of 2024. For "Ha Long Flower Park Walking Street", the city is continuing to research and plan, attract investment in management and exploitation. At the same time, renovate the entire park, divide the utility areas such as: Coffee, cuisine, areas for organizing collective activities; grow seasonal flowers.

With the products "Nostalgic tourist destination of the ferry waiting room and Bai Chay ferry route" and "Walking street combined with night economy in the area of the Provincial Planning, Fair and Exhibition Palace and Tran Quoc Nghien street" (from the Provincial Planning, Fair and Exhibition Palace to Vinhome Urban Area), the city directed units to connect with a number of tourism businesses, consulting units with survey experience, and at the same time provide data and information to serve the construction of the Project according to the city's orientation.

The "Check-in point on Dang Ba Hat street and Dang Ba Hat hill", "The relic cluster of Bai Tho mountain cultural area, Duc Ong Tran Quoc Nghien temple and Long Tien pagoda" have been approved for investment policy and are in the process of submitting the project appraisal to the central ministries and branches. Particularly for the Yen Lap lake - Loi Am pagoda scenic relic, the city directed units to dismantle souvenir shops and snack shops along both sides of the road to create an airy and clean landscape to serve tourists and people going to the pagoda. At the same time, prepare a dossier to request competent authorities to urgently repair some degraded items.

In 2025, the city will also introduce three new tourism products: Hot air balloon (fixed anchor) sightseeing; sightseeing cruise on the Bay (from Bai Chay to Hon Gai and vice versa); experience eating and drinking on the bus combined with sightseeing of the city. These are all products that have been tested by the city and are expected to be officially put into operation soon.

According to Ha Long City People's Committee, closely following the orientation of heritage economic development, the city will focus on preserving and promoting the outstanding, globally outstanding values of Ha Long Bay, as well as developing sustainable cultural heritage tourism. In the immediate future, the city will continue to develop the night-time economy, planning separate night-time economic development areas from residential areas; developing high-value services and improving the quality of services for domestic and international tourists at Tuan Chau International Passenger Port, Ha Long International Passenger Port... At the same time, encourage businesses to invest in developing quality tourism and connecting tourist routes to promote the city's outstanding tourism resources; build tourism products with their own identity. In particular, preserving and restoring cultural identity in costumes, languages, festivals, customs and unique cultural activities of ethnic groups in the area to create highlights and differences in tourism products.

The city will also vigorously implement projects on building Ha Long into a "City of Flowers" and a "City of Festivals". Prioritize the development of new, unique, highly competitive tourism products and services, especially cultural and entertainment industry products (live shows, music); night-time sightseeing products along the coast of Ha Long Bay. Along with that, invest in completing the infrastructure of auxiliary works serving tourism and services, especially toilets, public parking lots, means of transport in the inner city, connecting tourist areas and spots; exploit new dynamic traffic routes to put into use, attract investment and develop diverse, unique and highly competitive tourism types and products, suitable for each tourist market segment, improve affordability and extend the length of stay of visitors, limit seasonality and increase sustainability for city tourism.

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