On the occasion of 60th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s visit to Moc Chau, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) co-operated with Son La Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to organize a seminar named “The solutions to invest and develop Moc Chau tourism products†in Moc Chau, Son La Province on September 1, 2009.
The seminar had participants of Secretary of Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of Son La People’s Council Thao Xuan Sung; Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of Son La People’s Committee Hoang Chi Thuc; Deputy Director of Department of Travel under VNAT Nguyen Quy Phuong; leaders of Son La Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Moc Chau People’s Committee; representatives of some provincial departments of culture, sports and tourism; numbers of tour operators and press agencies…
Moc Chau’s potentials and advantages for tourism development have been evaluated highly in all the speeches and ideas presented in the seminar. The Moc Chau Plateau has temperate climate and beautiful natural scenery, suitable for ecological and leisure tourism. However in their speeches, some delegates evaluated that tourism development in Moc Chau is insufficient and needs the solutions to strengthen tourism co-operation and development such as: making detailed and master plans for tourist areas, organizing the seminars with different subjects, inviting consultants and investors, creating trademark, developing types of leisure tourism, attracting domestic tourists at the weekends, associating with neighboring provinces in making tours, developing cultural villages, promoting Moc Chau in the mass communications.
One of the advantageous conditions for Moc Chau tourism development is Prime Minister has approved the strategy on tourism to develop Moc Chau as a national tourist site and an attractive destination in Vietnam.
In the finish of the seminar, leader of Son La Province emphasized that under the leadership of the Communist Party, Government and the support of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and VNAT, Moc Chau will overcome all difficulties, find the positive solutions to develop Moc Chau as a national tourism site according to the decision approved by Prime Minister, create new and unique tourism products for tourist attraction, determine on developing Moc Chau tourism to be corresponding with its available potentials.
Thuy Hang (Translated)