Tien Giang province welcomes 1.51 million tourists in 9 months of 2017

On the afternoon of October 11, Deputy Chairman of the Tien Giang provincial People's Committee (PPC) Tran Thanh Duc, Head of the Steering Committee of Tourism Development chaired the meeting of the Steering Committee of Tien Giang province tourism development on the implementation of Resolution No. 11-NQ/ TU dated April 5, 2017 by the Tien Giang provincial Party Committee on Tien Giang province's tourism development to 2020 and orientation to 2030.

At the working session. Photo: HUU NGHI

Deputy Chairman of the PPC Tran Thanh Duc said that the Steering Committee has just come into operation and implemented Resolution No. 11 in just 6 months. Therefore, this was a process of "restarting" the implementation of this resolution and each member of the Steering Committee needed to develop the resolution, plan, function and task assigned to the specific task, etc...

He also directed members of the the Steering Committee to perform some key tasks in the coming time such as: To create the unique characteristics of Tien Giang tourism as well as Tien Giang's own tourism products; to develop My Tho city tourism to become the motive force of Tien Giang tourism; to promote the organization of many tourist activities to the visitor; to strengthen the responsibility of departments, localities in tourism development, etc…

According to the Tien Giang provincial Tourism Development Board, in the first 9 months of 2017, the total number of tourists to Tien Giang reached 1.51 million, increasing by 9.3% over the same period, reaching 82.3% of the plan in 2017. In particular, international visitors reached 576 thousand tourists with most of tourists from Japan, China, France, Britain, etc…

By HUU NGHI – Translated by HUU TAM