NEW APPROACH FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN UONG BI CITY, QUANG NINH PROVINCE

Uong Bi is one of the three biggest cities in Quang Ninh province. Uong Bi city is popular not only for being a largest coal-mining region, but also qualified to be a tourism center with its spiritual, cultural, and historic sites such as the complex of Yen Tu Monuments and Landscapes, Ba Vang Pagoda, Yen Trung Lake, Hang Son Pagoda, etc. Among the sites, Yen Tu is considered as the founding place of Buddhism in Vietnam. The complex of Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape is proposing to be a new world’s heritage site. In addition to the religious and culture value, Uong Bi also has some magnificent landscapes and wildness areas such as Binh Huong peak, Phuong Hoang peak, Phuong Nam River which gives the city perfect conditions to become a new popular tourist destination.  

To raise-up the city hidden charms and tourism potential, Center for Nature Conservation and Development (CCD) in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Information of the city to formulate “Tourism development plan for Uong Bi city from 2021-2025, vision to 2030”. The plan will support the implementation of the “Strategy to Develop Vietnam’s Tourism to 2030” and transforming tourism as a new leading economic for Uong Bi city.

As an effort to recover the tourism sector in the post COVID-19 pandemic, having an innovative and adaptive tourism plan will be a vital step to recover the tourism industry. CCD is actively support the formulation and implementing of tourism plans and activities in harmonization with nature conservation and preserving of local culture in the context of  adaptive with pandemic and new normal.