Halong cruise blue on sustainable tourism

Halong cruise blue on sustainable tourism

Quang Ninh, the international border area of ​​Vietnam, is known locally as the leading country in innovation model of economic growth, developing methods to convert from "brown" to "green" push the development of sustainable marine economy with strategic line is "green growth".

Sustainable development is the goal of all of the world economy as well as of specific sectors, especially tourism, an economic sector with high resource oriented. Quang Ninh has advantages particularly favorable for the development of tourism, which is typical of the period with twice Halong Bay was recognized as world natural heritage site and one of the 10 most beautiful bays.

According to the general trend of development of the tourism industry and the tremendous efforts of local, Halong has become one of the busiest tourist destination in Vietnam. In 2012, Halong tours bookings exceeded 7 million. Halong Bay is located in the top 100 tourist attractions in the world and in the top 10 of the most attractive river by vote of its international tour. However, besides the numbers and titles are proud environmental stress challenges of pollution and resource degradation. In Halong far is basically mass tourism (mass tourism) - no kinds of tourism and promoting conservation can quickly harm the resource and environmental sensitivity.

On the implementation of the strategy path "Green Economy", Quang Ninh define sustainable tourism as one of the important pillars of economic incentives - society. Sustainable tourism helps maximize the benefits of tourism to the natural environment and local communities, and can be made permanent without adversely affecting the natural resources and environment. Journey to Halong today will see many changes, those changes make us more confident over the development path that the Quang Ninh has chosen, whether on the road that may have choice and rated change is hard. For example, decisions about the relocation of the fishing village in Halong Bay to settle on the land.