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| Cà Mau Cape tourism area strives to become the largest key economic area of the province by 2025. – Photo baochinhphu.vn |
Viet Nam News
HÀ NỘI — The country’s southernmost province is hoping its famous Cà Mau Cape tourism area will become the largest key economic area in the province by 2025, baochinhphu.vn online newspaper reported.
It is expected to be one of the largest eco-tourism centres in the country, allowing visitors to experiencing lush mangrove forests. Local officials hope it can become a popular destination on Mekong Delta tours.
By 2030, Cà Mau Cape tourism is expected to meet national tourism criteria and be recognised as a National Tourism Site, according to the Prime Minister-approved master plan for the development of Cà Mau Cape National Tourism Site towards 2030.
Cà Mau Cape national tourism site is mainly located at Mũi Village in Đất Mũi Commune of Ngọc Hiển District, about 120km from Cà Mau City. It also extends over a small part of Năm Căn District.
High-end tourists
To attract domestic tourists as the plan recommends, the site must offer visitors options for sightseeing and exploring. By 2025, it will begin to focus on attracting high-end tourists, with an orientation towards resort tourism, eco-tourism and entertainment. By 2030, high-end tourism will be the site’s priority.
For the domestic market, the Cà Mau Cape tourism site continues to focus on its main market of visitors from
It focuses on providing sightseeing opportunities, natural landscape exploration and tours of the sea and islands.
For the international market, priority will be given to target markets such as tourists from the
At the same time, it will seek potential markets in Western Europe, including
The tourism site will focus on tourists who want to explore the natural landscape, experience cultural tours, visit sea resorts, ride on yachts and enjoy entertainment.
Tourism products under consideration for development include handicrafts, tours to experience the southernmost point of the country in combination with watching the sunrise and sunset on the sea, explore the
The site also hopes to focus on environmentally friendly tours that will enable visitors to explore the area’s rich natural features. These may include a tour along the river to observe the life of local inhabitants and community-based tourism located at villages in Đất Mũi.
Additionally, historical and cultural tours will enable visitors to experience and research relics and the traditional revolutionary education.
Master planning
The master plan indicates the functional areas of Cà Mau Cape National Tourism Site.
The centre of the Ca Mau Cape site will be at villages of Mui, Kinh Đào Tây, Kinh Đào Đông, Rạch Tàu Đông, Rạch Thơ, Khải Long and at Đất Mũi Commune of Ngọc Hiển District, with a total area of about 2,100 ha.
This will be the core zone with a focus on the development of the whole tourism site with tourist works, services and entertainment centres, plus ecological resorts in the mangrove forest.
It includes the Cà Mau Cape cultural and tourist park, sea-and mangrove forest ecological site, community-based village ecological tourism site, farming village-ecological tourism site and Khải Long sea tourism complex.
The investment for developing areas of special-use forest land located in the administrative and service sub-zone and the ecological rehabilitation zone of Cà Mau Cape must comply with the law on forest protection and development, environmental protection and biodiversity.
The area designated for ecotourism in Đất Mũi and Viên An communes, with an area of about 3,850 ha, is adjacent to the Cà Mau Cape National Tourism Site. It is the buffer zone and area for service centres and community-based tourism spots.
Satellite destinations including
The ecotourism site of
