Anyone been to Van Don have the same sense of a landscape of extraordinary still pristine bold.
Located in Bai Tu Long Bay, next to Ha Long Bay, Van Don island district, brings together more than 600 islands, large and small; many spectacular caves, beautiful beaches, clear blue water, fine sand stretches km as beach Quan Lan, Minh Chau, Ngoc Vung. Along with that is the valuable archaeological sites, historical and cultural famous family Lan, the impression remains of most busy commercial port for a while …
To facilitate the development of tourism, over time, Van Don has focused investment in infrastructure for tourism. In addition to investment in upgrading and expanding provincial roads 334, wharves access, roads on the island are also focused on building. Convenient transportation vehicles such as intercity bus, taxi, train routes to the island, the number of trips taken in use and constantly improve the quantity and quality, rich type. Until now, there were six taxi service for travel in the city. In particular, since 2009, has opened six high-speed train route to the island of Quan Lan, Minh Chau, for 20 trips – on average 40 passengers / train. Thus has contributed to a significant reduction of time and travel of residents and visitors. Along with traffic communications system on the island district was smooth, no wave or congestion loss as before. Catering for tourism has been gradually improving, the dish of the friends and the food service business is also simple but initially introduced to the guests the specialty of local. The farming of marine products such as raising two, sea cucumber, abalone SA devotee, bored, pearl oyster, grouper, oysters associated with tourism is gradually formed to create separate features for travelers calendar island waters.
Recognizing the potential advantages of local, in recent years there have been many tourism projects of private sector investment in this activity. Currently the district has 17 tourism projects are implemented, in particular the eco-tourism resort, beach on the island of Quan Lan, Ngoc Vung and Minh Chau has brought tourism products attractive tourists. In particular, Quan Lan Island is becoming a destination resort with glass sand beaches spread. In addition, the district has 63 accommodation establishments with close to 850 rooms; rooms with complete facilities to meet the needs of visitors. Recently funded by the State and socialization, district island has added many new works in Long Beach resort, built and put into operation as Uncle Ho in Ngoc Vung, Cai Bau temple – Truc Lam Giac Tam … made more attractive tourist destination. If the previous year the number of tourists to Van Don for a short time, the number of small, retail, 2 years in Van Don district has welcomed the delegation to take the tour, with a longer stay . In 2010, the number of tourists to the district reached over 415,000, including international visitors is 5,040 plays mainly in the tourist destination of the Minh Chau, Quan Lan, Ha Long, Dong Xa.
With its potential strengths, Van Don can completely transform tourism into a key economic sector. However, it is important to acknowledge the fact that investment in tourism in the island district of this time did not match with the local potentials that are. Although the accommodation establishments increased, but the majority still stay pure, high quality. The tour, should not be extended to exploit monotonic; lack entertainment services. In particular, the link between business units is limited, the development of products bearing the brand name of Van Don has not been finalized. Human resources for island economic development in general and tourism in particular is low so no small influence on the creation of attractive tourism products, improve service quality. That is the difficulty that the desired island district with investors to improve in the near future.
Hopefully, with the interest to invest in infrastructure, improve the quality of tourism services sure in the not too distant future of Van Don island district will become an indispensable destination of the journey domestic and foreign tourists coming to Quang Ninh. /.