Rich potential
Con Dao is the district has the potential to develop tourism, by which the natural beauty and harmony. Con Dao has 200km of coast, including the beautiful bathing beach is bold features such as wild Dam Trau, beach Vong, Vietnam beach, beach ... An Hai be classified as beach quality in the country. System relics prisons, National Park, festivals and non-physical ... has been attracting tourists and foreign.
In recent years, the infrastructure and environmental landscape in Con Dao is also construction. According to a report by the Management Board to develop Con Dao, Con Dao has 10 base residence with 150 rooms capacity 435 guests.
Amount of international tourists and domestic constantly increased over the years: in 2007 received more than 17 thousand visitors to, nursing breaks, increasing the average 17.38% a year, private ceremony occasions 30-4 and 1 -- 5 last, Con Dao district and serve to welcome 514 visitors, including international guests is 142 turns of people, achieved revenues of 417 million. The growth of international tourists during the 2001 - 2007 is 40% per year, and domestic tourism increased 7.88% per year, income from tourism has been gradually improved.
Nguyen Huu Tai, Manager Promotion Management Development Con Dao said: "With the advantage of the sea islands, has many historical value high culture, the last time, Con Dao has attracted many economic participation of developing tourism, is 3 years, many employers travel with names such as Saigontourist, OSC Travel ... expanded investment and Con Dao plans to exploit their tour to gradually create dynamic economic development - socio-Con Dao; create more jobs and improve the material life and spiritual people, contributing to poverty reduction. "
System infrastructure such as airports, ports, transportation is interested to develop and have a positive impact to tourism activities in the province. Some of the leisure tourism quality is established, the transport in tourism are quite diverse in the waterway, road and air, creating conditions to promote growth of target tourism development.
Nguyen Huu Tai adds: "To contribute to creating a new face for tourism Con Dao, a project port trade oil with a total investment 60 million USD will be invested to build. The project was agreed PPC investment policies and procedures are in place agreements.
Need to exploit all
With strong enough that Con Dao to become the economy - tourism and service offers high quality international build. There are 19 investment projects in the Con Dao People's Committee agreed on the policy, is implementing the next steps, of which 9 projects tourism. However, the trend in today, travel to Con Dao growing need of the development of all aspects from infrastructure to human resources.
Transport to the Con Dao airway is, however, the airport has its only receiving aircraft ATR-72 can be transported around 60-70 guests, with low frequency 1 trip / day. Waterway fewer tourists choose the time from the land, the Con Dao is quite long, from 12 to 15 hours.
In addition to hours of traffic, source of information for guests before the island are limited, the infrastructure and technology in tourism; basis to stay, eat, entertainment ... missing, backward and limited in scale. His share of: "Apart Hotel Saigon - Con Dao standard 3 stars, the hotel is not the class, small-scale. A difficult but tourism is Con Dao face, though with many investors in domestic and foreign investment in tourism sector is the lack linked tourism products to tourism community. "
The business tourism business also said that even as tourism where it should have also linked the product to the tourism community.
According to them, the mount is necessary and can not be separated for tourism in general and tourism in particular Con Dao. By understanding the community, the cultural values of the community will help make the tour on the "vulnerabilities" from the community to offset equipment and knowledge for this force, to better the needs of tourists, while enabling visitors Republic with rustic life on the island.
Expected by 2010, to the Con Dao to over 70 thousand visitors, which are mainly of high-level guests. This shows that, in future, Con Dao bring the items on the grounds of all areas to attract visitors and create momentum for the tourism development of Con Dao.
"Con Dao need complete planning, planning framework, infrastructure, the Management Development Con Dao is the focal point, compliance with general planning for the legal basis when selecting projects large, high quality, with such tourist Con Dao is a new development, "Mr. Ho Van Nien, Deputy Chairman of People's Committee emphasized in meetings with the Management Board to develop Con Dao.
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