Assignment and Coordination of Implementation of Tourism Development Policy in Viet Tri City


Plan No. 4772/KH-UBND dated October 20, 2016 of Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee on tourism development in Phu Tho province in the period of 2016 - 2020: The plan points out key tasks, groups of implementation solutions, capital needs, and implementation organization to achieve the goal of building Phu Tho into a key tourism area of ​​the region, ensuring sufficient conditions for Phu Tho to host the National Tourism Year in 2020.

Decision No. 3651/QD-UBND dated December 28, 2012 of the People's Committee of Phu Tho province on approving the Tourism Development Plan of Phu Tho province for the period 2011-2020, with a vision to 2030.

On December 21, 2012, the Standing Committee of Viet Tri City Party Committee issued Resolution No. 36-NQ/TU on tourism development in Viet Tri city until 2020, in which the orientation is to build Viet Tri into a "Festival city returning to the roots of the Vietnamese people".

Resolution No. 31/2012/NQ-HDND of the 19th term People's Council of Viet Tri city on "Tourism development plan of Viet Tri city to 2020".

Resolution No. 03/2017/NQ-HDND dated April 24, 2017 of the People's Council of Viet Tri city on the Project for developing service sectors of Viet Tri city in the period of 2017-2020, with a vision to 2030.

Project No. 1838/2018/DA-UBND dated August 6, 2018 of Viet Tri City People's Committee on tourism development of Viet Tri city in the period 2018-2025.

In general, Viet Tri city has proactively and actively built and implemented tourism development policies to strive to become a key tourism locality of the region and tourism truly becomes the city's spearhead economic sector.


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Chart 2.4: Added value in the area in the period 2015 - 2018

Source: Author's synthesis from 2018 socio-economic reports of Viet Tri City People's Committee, Phu Tho province

2.2.2. Assignment and coordination of implementation of tourism development policies in Viet Tri city

It can be seen that a successful policy requires many factors, in which the assignment and coordination of policy implementation play an important role. Accordingly, to ensure that the tourism development policy in Viet Tri city is implemented synchronously, meeting the set policy objectives, the departments, branches, sectors and units related to the implementation of the city's tourism development policy have actively implemented activities with high efficiency, specifically:

The Department of Culture and Information of Viet Tri City, as the standing agency presiding over and advising the City People's Committee to direct and organize the implementation of the plan, has specified the contents and proactively coordinated with relevant levels and sectors for implementation. The Department of Culture and Information has developed the City Tourism Development Project for the period 2018 - 2025, developed a development plan


Develop tourism annually. Coordinate with the City Economic Department to develop plans for developing craft villages to serve tourism development in the city; develop and participate in programs, conferences, and investment promotion fairs, promote and advertise cultural values ​​and tourism potential of the Ancestral Land to domestic and foreign tourists. Develop programs and plans to promote the values ​​of two representative intangible cultural heritages of humanity, namely Xoan singing in Phu Tho and Hung King worship in Phu Tho, associated with tourism development. Issue and promote maps of cultural heritages, city tourism maps, leaflets on Viet Tri, the festival city - the origin of the Vietnamese nation, "Viet Tri City tour"... to ward and commune units; Historical relic management boards, schools; districts and towns in Phu Tho province; press agencies; travel agencies at conferences, seminars, and tourism promotion programs.

The Department of Culture and Information of Viet Tri city coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Phu Tho province and travel agencies to print the "Viet Tri City tour" brochure, the brochure introducing the daily tour Hanoi - Phu Tho and the Xoan singing of the ancient village to periodically introduce to tourists, and build the Viet Tri city tourism information page (Viet Tri tourism Web Gis).

Continue to implement the model "Schools associated with life" and have selected typical and suitable models to implement at the unit such as: "School model associated with Hung Lo Craft Village" of Hung Lo Secondary School; School associated with Xoan Singing Cultural Heritage of Secondary Schools: Phuong Lau, Kim Duc; Primary Schools: Dinh Tien Hoang, Gia Cam; School model associated with Hung King Worship of Hy Cuong Primary School, Hy Cuong Secondary School...

On April 4, 2018, Viet Tri City People's Committee coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Phu Tho province to announce the daily tour Hanoi -


Phu Tho. Tour schedule: Hanoi - Lac Long Quan Temple - Hung Temple - Hung King Museum - Hung Lo Communal House - Lai Len Temple - Hanoi and periodically organize the tourism product "Hat Xoan in the ancient village" every Saturday and Sunday to serve tourists.

Table 2.2: List of tourist routes being exploited


STT

Trip


Intra-provincial route

1

Viet Tri - Phu Tho town - Ha Hoa

2

Viet Tri - Thanh Son - Tan Son

3

Viet Tri - Thanh Thuy - Tan Son

4

Viet Tri - Doan Hung


Interprovincial route

1

Tourist route to the source of Phu Tho - Yen Bai - Lao Cai

2

Tourist routes along the extended route of 8 Northwestern provinces (Phu Tho,

Yen Bai, Lao Cai, Hoa Binh, Son La, Lai Chau, Dien Bien, Ha Giang)

3

Hanoi - Phu Tho - Tuyen Quang tourist route

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Assignment and Coordination of Implementation of Tourism Development Policy in Viet Tri City


Source: Author's synthesis from tourism planning, reports, and data of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Phu Tho province[73-84;127]

Promote joint ventures and associations to develop tourism; coordinate with departments, agencies and sectors to develop a number of tourism development policies such as: Investment incentives, support for travel agencies and tourism transport enterprises, training of local tourism human resources, policies to support craft villages and production facilities to bring typical agricultural and industrial products of the city to participate in activities serving tourists; participate in the production of souvenirs and tourism gifts.


Thanks to that, in recent years, a number of key tourism infrastructure investment projects have been built such as: Saigon - Phu Tho 4-star hotel project worth 80 billion VND; Vincom Trade Center - Hung Vuong Square project worth 403.40 billion VND, Van Lang Park project worth 200.4 billion VND... Key tourist areas have been given priority for budget funding; community tourism development projects; tourism human resource development projects, relic restoration, festival restoration... are all funded by the City.

The City Radio and Television Station has also performed well its duties and functions in implementing the City's tourism development policy. That is, building columns, special pages, and programs to promote the potential and tourism image of Viet Tri City; regularly promoting and introducing the city's attractive tourist destinations and areas on mass media.

2.2.3. Disseminate and propagate tourism development policies in Viet Tri city

Based on policies and plans, the dissemination and propaganda of tourism-related activities has been focused on by relevant parties. Because this is one of the important steps in policy implementation. Viet Tri City directs the City Party Committee's Propaganda Department, the City Department of Culture and Information, the City Radio and Television Station to proactively develop and implement plans to disseminate and popularize the city's tourism development policies; departments, branches, units, People's Committees of wards and communes in the city strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees at all levels, authorities and organizations in the dissemination and propaganda of policies.

Every year, the People's Committee of Viet Tri city organizes training courses to disseminate the city's tourism development policies and coordinates with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.


The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Phu Tho province organized a training conference for travel agencies, hotels, restaurants and accommodation establishments in the area on tourism services, especially before major festivals, especially before the Hung Kings' death anniversary - Hung Temple Festival. From 2015 to 2018, the City organized 45 training courses with more than 2,000 trainees participating in training on room and table services, accommodation facility management, food preparation, tourist driving, etc.

Famous and key tourist destinations of the city also proactively introduce and promote their images on the internet to promote more widely to domestic and foreign tourists.

Propaganda and promotion activities are carried out in many diverse and rich forms such as: Building a website on Viet Tri tourism (Viet Tri tourism WebGis); building columns and pages promoting tourist areas and spots on the City Radio and Television Station, VTC Digital Television Station, Nhan Dan Television, Phu Tho Newspaper, promoting on the City's Electronic Information Portal and linking to promote on the Provincial Tourism Information Portals and Pages; publishing brochures, tourist maps, printing banners and billboards, specifically:

The city has published and disseminated cultural heritage maps and city tourism maps to ward and commune units; historical relic management boards, schools; districts and towns of Phu Tho province; press agencies; travel agencies. It has disseminated at conferences and seminars, during the Hung Kings' Commemoration Day - Hung Temple Festival with 4,000 Vietnamese copies, 650 English copies, and 185 heritage maps.

Propagating leaflets of Viet Tri as the festival city of the origin of the Vietnamese people; “City tour of Viet Tri”; Book of street names of Viet Tri city; Historical and cultural relics of the Hung King era on Viet Tri land; Viet Tri city planning at conferences, seminars, tourism promotion programs


with 3,500 copies; Distributed nearly 70,000 handbooks "Code of cultural conduct in Viet Tri city".

Dissemination, propaganda and extensive mobilization of all classes of people to actively build the image of people and the style of citizens of Viet Tri city "Elegant, friendly, hospitable, rich in humanity, imbued with the love of the Fatherland"; especially the voluntary participation in preserving environmental sanitation, protecting landscapes and relics, security and order, building Viet Tri city into a safe, civilized, polite tourist destination, a festival city returning to the roots of the Vietnamese people.

2.2.4. Monitor, inspect and urge the implementation of tourism development policies in Viet Tri city.

Recognizing the importance of inspection and supervision, the People's Committee of Viet Tri City has issued many plans to implement monitoring, supervision and periodic reporting as prescribed. Accordingly, relevant parties in the city always strengthen state management of tourism in the area, disseminate instructions on the implementation of the 2017 Tourism Law and Circulars and Decrees guiding the implementation of the Tourism Law to tourism and service businesses and units in the area; provide advice and support to localities in building community tourism products and typical tourism products of localities.

Every year, based on the summary report, the People's Committee of Viet Tri City has made adjustments, handled problems or issued policies on issues related to tourism development in the City such as arranging investment funds for projects, promotion programs, image promotion, festival programs, etc. Inspection and examination work is also considered important: "Strengthening inspection, examination and handling of violations. Organizing specialized and interdisciplinary inspections of cultural, sports and tourism activities in the whole area.


The province focuses on sensitive areas of activity that can easily cause outrage and have long-term violations, such as: Festival organization, restoration and embellishment of relics, art performances, etc. Specifically, every year, the People's Committee of Viet Tri City establishes an interdisciplinary inspection team for cultural activities.

- Sports - Tourism - Advertising has coordinated with the City Police and relevant agencies to inspect, rectify, and remind cultural and sports service businesses, especially illegal advertising, and promptly handle violations according to current regulations. Results: From 2016 to present, the City's interdisciplinary inspection team has inspected 250 advertising businesses, 150 internet businesses, 145 karaoke businesses, and 189 motels. Decided to temporarily suspend operations of 76 karaoke service businesses that violated regulations on conditions of facilities, sound, security and order, and fire prevention and fighting safety.

2.3. Contents of tourism development policy in Viet Tri city in the period 2015 - 2019

2.3.1. Objective

Create a clear change in the awareness and actions of officials, party members and people of the city on tourism development, considering this as one of the important tasks to promote socio-economic development, increase stable income, gradually improve living standards, and shift the occupational structure for the community at tourist destinations.

Preserve, restore, embellish and promote the value of historical and cultural relics in the city related to the capital of Van Lang, the Hung King era and the ancestors who built and defended the country. At the same time, maintain, preserve, improve the quality and promote the values ​​of cultural heritage: Organize typical cultural festivals, representing the cultural identity of the Ancestral Land, selectively restore some festivals that have faded away; strive for each citizen of Viet Tri

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