Increasing attraction from green destinations
In the direction of sustainable tourism development, green tourism is becoming a focus that many localities, businesses and management agencies in Ho Chi Minh City are focusing on implementing. This is to harmonize the goals of economic growth, environmental protection and preservation of cultural and natural values.
In the Con Dao special zone, this locality is considered a land of rich historical value, and at the same time, possesses a unique forest and marine ecosystem of national and international importance.
Mr. Nguyen Van Manh - Vice Chairman of Con Dao Special Zone said that improving state management capacity on tourism is to ensure that Con Dao develops in the right direction, sustainably and commensurate with the potential of cultural heritage and natural resources of the locality.
Over the past time, Con Dao has focused on developing green tourism in the direction of reducing plastic, associated with the implementation of the Circular Economy Project to protect the environment and ecosystem. Thanks to synchronous solutions, revenue and the number of tourists to Con Dao have grown positively. Digital communication also contributes to consolidating the image and brand of Green - Friendly - Safe - Attractive Con Dao.
To continue to improve tourism management capacity in the coming time, Con Dao proposes many groups of solutions including focusing on strictly managing planning and conservation; strengthening training and fostering cadres; strengthening the role of grassroots government; promoting the role of the community; strengthening inter-sectoral coordination.
The inevitable direction in the era of sustainable growth
Not only Con Dao, the problem of developing green tourism in Can Gio is also being concerned by many businesses. This place is considered a green and ecological tourism space of Ho Chi Minh City, possessing a characteristic mangrove ecosystem and is being invested in and completed transport infrastructure, creating motivation for sustainable tourism development.
Mr. Pham Anh Vu - Deputy General Director of Viet Tourism Company said that Can Gio is an indispensable destination in ecotourism and environmental education tours for students and families.
Can Gio also has the potential to develop community tourism associated with fishing village experiences, seafood cuisine; responsible tourism, green tourism combined with conferences, team building and mangrove afforestation activities, meeting the increasing social responsibility needs of businesses. Thereby, the local community has more opportunities to increase income from homestays, culinary services, transportation and development of OCOP products, local specialties.
From the perspective of travel businesses, Mr. Nguyen Huu Y Yen - Chairman of the Member Council of Saigontourist Travel Company said that developing green tourism is becoming an inevitable direction in the era of sustainable growth. Green tourism needs to be deployed synchronously from the supply chain to the tourist experience.
According to Mr. Yen, green tourism helps simultaneously solve 3 problems including improving the competitiveness of destinations, improving service quality and preserving resources for the future.
Therefore, businesses propose that Ho Chi Minh City soon complete the set of criteria and roadmap for green transformation suitable to the specifics of the city; increase investment in green tourism infrastructure and transportation; encourage linkage models between businesses - localities - communities; have mechanisms to recognize and replicate effective green tourism models.
