At the question session of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the morning of August 21, National Assembly delegate Pham Van Hoa once again raised the ponderous reality of the poverty and monotony of the night tourism model in many localities.
Currently, walking streets, food courts, and arts and entertainment activities in many places are not attractive enough, even in some localities, these activities only take place on weekends, and on other days. Otherwise, it's completely silent.
The word "again" is because this is not the first time this issue has been brought before Congress. Delegate Pham Van Hoa and many other delegates have raised this issue many times in previous meetings, but the results have not yet shown significant improvement.
The new thing in this question-and-answer session lies in the answer of Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung. He summarized the current paradox when he said that many localities deploy night tourism products but "if they don't do it, it's too little, but if they do it, it's too much" because tourists don't come.
Minister Hung also affirmed that the Ministry has developed a project on night tourism products, encouraging localities to research planning factors, calculate customer markets, and thereby create suitable night tourism products. fit.
However, the responsibility for "not doing enough, doing too much" currently belongs to the chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee and Provincial People's Council, not the Ministry.
Looking back at the "responsibilities" of localities, it is easy to see that apart from a few localities that have had initial success with night tourism models such as "night streets" or "walking streets," the majority of localities The rest have difficulty creating these products.
The mentality of "when you see people eating potatoes, you carry the apricot to dig them" or do it to not be inferior to your friends has caused many localities to struggle to test one model after another, but in the end they only create products. are similar, leading to a surplus of similarities in many places.
Night tourism is an important part of the modern tourism industry. Many countries and cities around the world have turned it into an effective "gold mine", typically Thailand. However, with localities in Vietnam still struggling to find direction, the benefits are not as expected.
So it's better to "not do enough" than "doing too much" like today. Because if you invest inconsiderately, just to create night tourism products that are not based on real needs and do not have a clear development plan, it will only lead to a waste of resources and damage to your brand. local tourism brand.
Images of deserted walking streets, sparse shops and monotonous entertainment activities not only do not bring any benefit to the locality but also have side effects because they only disappoint tourists and leave a bad impression. Bad impression of the destination!
