Co To sea calls… – Quang Ninh electronic newspaper
With the advantage of a pristine island, unique landscapes, especially beautiful beaches, Co To’s summer tourist season is always the peak attracting tourists from all over. This year, within the framework of the program to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the district’s establishment, Co To also organized the opening ceremony of Co To tourism in 2024 with a series of cultural, tourism and sports events, kicking off a summer tourist season filled with sunshine, wind and new expectations.
Early start
According to local assessments, in 2023, Co To tourism achieved some outstanding results along with positive signals in the beginning of this new year, which are the premise for Co To tourism to continue to have a strong breakthrough. The locality’s goal this year is to welcome over 300,000 tourists and attract visitors to Co To earlier. Therefore, since the beginning of the year, the locality has organized many events and activities within the overall 44 activities and events that the locality will organize throughout the year, contributing to stimulating tourism demand on the island district.
Co To welcomed about 25,000 tourists in the first 3 months of this year.
Typical examples include: Launching a campaign to promote the image of Co To tourism on social networking platforms; calling on people and businesses to apply digital transformation in the tourism sector to promote Co To tourism; organizing a program to launch the reduction of plastic waste in tourism activities; Launching digital transformation applications for Co To tourism (automatic explanation on electric cars; attaching QR codes to tourist attractions, relics, pagodas (Mong Rong rock beach, Dai Doi Ky Con relic, Co To pagoda); Sea opening festival in Thanh Lan, an island commune with the only coral diving product in the Northern region; art photo exhibition about Co To; boat racing competition connecting island districts nationwide; exhibition of Co To pine and OCOP products…
Green development orientation
Welcoming guests early, to ensure the best conditions for serving tourists, especially in the summer tourist season, the district encourages tourism businesses to develop new tourism products in accordance with local planning and the needs of tourists. From the beginning of the year, the district has oriented in developing tourism products and services that meet green criteria: Accommodation facilities, services labeled with no plastic waste, tours without plastic waste, tourism programs combined with garbage collection…
Year Currently, Co To district has 7 new tourism products expected to be put into operation this summer. The products are not only concentrated on the large Co To island but also expanded to some neighboring islands. In particular, the large island has a sports and entertainment complex product combining sunset viewing on Tinh Yeu beach, cycling to experience Co To at night, healing tourism and virtual reality tourism products at the President Ho Chi Minh Memorial Site on the island, then visiting the 7-star island in Dong Tien commune. Tran Island Village – “Northeast Truong Sa” has a journey tour for the homeland’s sea and islands and a night camping product at Ba Chau beach.
The boat racing competition connecting island districts nationwide was held for the first time in Co To, attracting a large number of tourists and locals to watch.
Responding to the district’s policy of welcoming guests early, up to now, most businesses in the area have upgraded their facilities and tourism services to be ready to welcome guests. Both Van Chay tourist beaches and Hong Van are also ready to welcome guests from March 20 after a temporary suspension of operations to repair and upgrade facilities and infrastructure in October 2023. The Department of Culture, Information and Tourism of Co To has coordinated with the Tourism and Media Association to launch a general cleaning of the beach environment at Mong Rong rock beach and the islands of Co To Con, Ca Carp, and Bac Van beach.
In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the district’s establishment, localities in the area have also paid attention to and mobilized resources to improve the appearance of urban and rural areas, clean up the environment of roads and beaches, have plans to ensure security, safety, prevent drowning, fires, and release of pets (dogs, cats), and livestock, and proactively coordinate with relevant agencies and units to ensure a safe and attractive tourism environment in the area.
Focus on communication and promotion
Clearly aware of the role of promotion, promotion, and application of digital transformation to tourism Island district, Co To determined that the communication, promotion and tourism promotion are highly concentrated, focused and key to bring practical results, creating positive and impressive changes for tourists and investors.
Improve professionalism, innovate promotion methods associated with the application of information technology, to increase the spread to the community, locality and tourist market. Expand tourism information channels, diversify implementation forms, ensure economic efficiency, mobilize participation and contributions from tourism businesses, support from influential people on social networks, all classes of people, especially young people and students in the area.
Trainees participate in a course on filming and editing videos on phones, communication methods on social networking platforms in Co To. Photo provided by the locality.
According to statistics, up to now, the locality
