Tourists visit Việt Nam's largest tower garden at Bổ Đà Pagoda, Tiên Sơn Commune, Việt Yên District of Bắc Giang Province. — VNA/VNS Photos

BẮC GIANG — Bắc Giang Province will focus on planning and developing tourist areas and attractions to attract both local and international friends.

Provincial Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trương Quang Hải said that the plan will be carried out from now until 2025.

The department will closely cooperate with counterparts in Quảng Ninh and Hải Dương to complete the scientific dossier “Monuments and landscapes of Yên Tử - Vĩnh Nghiêm - Côn Sơn, Kiếp Bạc” to submit to UNESCO for recognition as a world heritage site.

In addition, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Bắc Giang will urge and support investors to accelerate the construction progress of the Tây Yên Tử spiritual - ecological tourism area and a project to repair and restore a number of relics belonging to the special national historical site of Yên Thế Uprising.

The department will also establish a plan for preserving, repairing and restoring special national relics of Bổ Đà Pagoda in Việt Yên District; and invest in a project to renovate and embellish the special national site of Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda.

In addition, Bắc Giang will focus on completing its plans for the preservation and restoration of special national relics: Xương Giang Victory Site (Bắc Giang City), Safety Zone, or An Toàn Khu (ATK) II (Hiệp Hòa District) to serve as a basis for effectively mobilizing resources for conservation, restoration and promotion of relics' values.

Director Hải said Bắc Giang would strive to form two walking streets and develop the night economy in Bắc Giang City and Việt Yên District by 2025.

The province will call for investment in five golf courses and at least one hotel or resort of five-star standard. 

Bắc Giang will try to have Tây Yên Tử spiritual-ecological complex recognised as a provincial-level tourist area along with seven community tourism sites associated with fruit tree areas, agricultural products, and rural areas. The entire province will have two provincial tourist areas and 20 tourist destinations.

Artists perform during the opening ceremony of the Tây Yên Tử Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week of Bắc Giang Province on February 21.

Bắc Giang will work on planning and attracting investment to build three large-scale tourist complexes, creating a highlight for the province's tourism development and becoming a national tourist area. These complexes are Tây Yên Tử; Lục Ngạn eco-tourism, resort, entertainment and recreation area with ​​Khuôn Thần Lake as its core; and Nham Biền Mountain eco-tourism, resort, entertainment and recreation area.

In 2023, districts and cities in Bắc Giang invested in a number of tourist areas and destinations such as the ecological urban area and resort in Khám Lạng, Bắc Lũng, Yên Sơn communes; and the Bắc Giang Golf and Resort project in the communes of Chu Điện, Yên Sơn, Khám Lạng communes. The province has built a detailed planning scale of 1/500 for these projects.

Bắc Giang will also work on detailed planning for the expansion of the tourist site of Cẩm Xuyên Village in Xuân Cẩm Commune where late President Hồ Chí Minh visited in 1955 and Y Sơn historical-cultural relic complex in Hòa Sơn Commune in Hiệp Hòa District.

The province will call for investment and lure enterprises to start a project building, expanding and restoring Thiên Lai Pagoda, Thanh Nhàn Temple and Kem Pagoda in Yên Dũng District.

Currently, a Bắc Giang city luxury hotel and shopping mall project with total investment capital of VNĐ1.36 trillion (US$54.8 million) is under construction.

Earlier, phase 1 of the the Việt Yên-Stone Highland golf course construction project in Trung Sơn Commune, Việt Yên District was completed in October 2023. — VNS