Over 1.1 million tourists visit Tien Giang from start of the year

According to the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism, Tien Giang greeted more than 1.1 million tourist arrivals in the first eight months of 2016, a year-on-year rise of 5.6 percent.

Of this figure, foreign tourist arrivals were 357.4 thousand, up 5.6 percent in comparison to the same period of last year. Total restaurant-hotel-tourism turnover was estimated at VND 3,100 billion, up 9.5 percent over a year previous, including travel tourism was 1.4 percent.

Up to now, Tien Giang province had 51 travel companies, 21 nationally certified historical and cultural relics, 24 major tourist attractions, 14 cottage industry villages, 643 tourism boats, 252 tourist accommodation establishments and smallholding travel services units (including three ancient houses aged nearly 100 years).

The tourism industry of Tien Giang province has focused on building knowledge-based products in all three ecological areas in combination with locally characteristic values to create distinctive tourism products.

According to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Tien Giang has invited and facilitated investors to carry out ecological tourism projects as well as continued to invest in developing and expanding tourist attractions like Tan Thanh marine tourist site, Thoi Son Islet tourist site, tourist attractions in Cai Be and Cai Lay districts, etc...

By Nguyen Huu