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Hanoi with a long history of land periods thousand years of civilization “married” to the cultural origin Doai, Nam Son Thuong village sub-region along the land of hundreds of professional culture, land academics Ha Tay (old) were create a unique tourism product attractive. But do to tourism growing in Hanoi is still a question so much concern.

Diversity of tourism products

Mr. Truong Minh Tien, deputy director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ha Noi said, if as before, the strength of Ha Noi (old) is a tourist relic, MICE (travel seminars, conferences), now the capital there are more humane forms of tourism, village, food, relaxation …

To convert potential into strong, Hanoi was partly supported by funds help some tourist villages and cultural building display products, venues, improving the environmental landscape, the and maintenance staff member at the explanation of the basis. These include the village of Bat Trang (Gia Lam) with a display of ceramic product scale, impressive, to help visitors look favorably on the traditional villages of the city, eager to learn from it other villages. Visitors to Van Phuc silk village (Ha Dong) there needs to be guided to visit the facilities, learn the weaving stage. Similarly, visitors to the ancient village of Duong Lam before the stock can only watch it on, now can save a few days with people eating, activity, rest, enjoy the culinary, cultural exchange … In addition, the tourism industry, is actively attract investment in key tourism clusters such as Soc Son – East England; Son Tay – Ba Vi – Spring Two; Huong Son – The Son (USA Germany); Ha Dong and adjacent areas to create new tourism products.

Expansion Capital administrative boundaries also create conditions for the business unit launched several new products. JSC Travel Dress Long – Bang Ta building ecotourism Bang Ta forest (20 ha) with a combined floor areas, service areas, visit the recreation Tan Da Travel Company to introduce products Tan Linh at the spa; investment company Nghi Tam Bao Son Paradise area with grand-scale, high quality. Talking about tourism capital after expansion, Mr. Luu Duc Ke, director of Hanoi Tourism Company commented: “Although there are limited but clearly, the product of Hanoi tourism increasingly rich , diversity, meeting basic needs of travelers. village tourism, ecological tourism development in the suburbs have chill out, reducing the pressure for urban travel. “

Statistics of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism show that in 2011, international tourists to Hanoi reached nearly 1.9 million visitors (up 31.5% of international visitors to Vietnam). Is expected in 2012, Hanoi will welcome 2.5 million foreign visitors, 14 million domestic tourists. These figures were somewhat tourist attraction of Hanoi today.

More jobs for thousands of workers

Visitors to Hanoi on the increase, tourism products increasingly rich and diverse tourism brought gradually become a key economic sector in the capital. Income from this sector of the city reached 11,552 billion VND in 2005, 27,000 billion VND in 2010, 30.000 billion in 2011 (up 10% compared with 2010). With this rise is expected in 2015, the capital will welcome nearly 17 million passengers, increasing income from tourism reached U.S. $ 2093 billion, equivalent to 8.2% of GDP in Hanoi. In addition to increasing budget revenues and tourism capital after strong growth boundary expansion has created jobs for thousands of workers. Mr. Truong Minh Tien, deputy director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Hanoi said, in 2005, the whole Hanoi and Ha Tay (old), will have 28,370 workers directly employed in tourism, 2010 , this number nearly doubled (51,118 people). Currently, the tourism capital attracted nearly 60,000 direct employees.

In fact, the village has become an important resource for tourism development, traditional crafts such as cultural icon, a national art, is an important factor to attract tourists customers. Therefore, tourism development also contributing to create jobs for hundreds of thousands of indirect labor. For example, Bat Trang village has more than 1,000 households with 4,000 laborers ceramics, Van Phuc silk village, Mother of pearl Specialist American village, Phu Vinh rattan and bamboo have thousands of people to stick with … of course not all workers are producing village tourism product, but only a fraction of that of the more than 1,300 craft villages in Hanoi, the number of employees at the village tourism indirectly also to thousands of people. That is not including the community tourism development in Duong Lam (Shanxi), Ngac (Liem), hundreds of local farmers have learned how to travel and participate in serving travelers.

Forecasting demand for direct labor in Hanoi’s tourism in 2015 was 78,500 people, 2020 is 116,600 people, 1 of direct labor to indirect labor is 2.2. Thus, in 2015, the tourism industry will create jobs for 250,000 workers directly and indirectly.

Development planning travel to Hanoi in 2020, driven by 2030 was adopted, the perfect travel products after the capital to expand the administrative boundaries have been and will become a reality.

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